The Lyric Age of Greece

London: Edward Arnold. Good+ with no dust jacket. (1978). Softcover. 0713161876 . Blank corner clipped from half-title leaf. Fading to spine and margins of covers. Creasing to spine. ; 1978 paperback reprint of a title first published in 1960 (reprinted with amendments 1967). xvi, 424, [8 (blank)] pages. 6 maps within the pagination (2 double page, 3 full page, 1 smaller). Page dimensions: 217 x 135mm. "[. . .] and admirably written account of the Greek world in the seventh and sixth centuries B.C. [. . .]" - English Historical Review, quoted on rear cover. Contents: Foreword; Abbreviations; Part I - Greece at the Dawn of History: The Legacy of the Bronze Age; The Cities; Part II - The Expansion of Greece: Greece and the East; Greece and the West, and the Rise of Corinth; The Aegean and Asia Minor, c. 700-640; The Greeks and the Black Sea; Egypt, Cyrenaica and the Further West, c. 640-500; Part III - The Revolution in Greek Society: The New Age and the New Poetry: Archilochos; The Peloponnese in the Seventh Century; The Isthmus and the North: the New Lords; Power and Poetry in Ionia; The Lyric Age of Lesbos; Theognis and the Decline of Megara; Sparta and Reaction; Athens and the Middle Way; Athens and the Aegean, 590-510; Part IV - The Revolution in Greek Thought: The Natural Philosophers; The Mystery Religions; Pythagoras and Western Greek Thought; Herakleitos of Ephesus; Appendix: On the Dates in this Book; Bibliographical Addenda, 1989; Index. .