This fully revised new edition of The Greeks is a concise but wide-ranging introduction to the culture of ancient Greece, providing a comprehensive survey that covers all the key elements of ancient Greek civilization from the age of Homer to the Hellenistic period. It remains an invaluable introduction for all students of Classics.

Robin Sowerby was Senior Lecturer in English Studies at the University of Stirling, Scotland. Trained as a classicist, his research interests centre upon the classical tradition. He has written introductory studies of the major classical epics and is author of Early Augustan Virgil (2010), The Augustan Art of Poetry (2006), and The Classical Legacy in Renaissance Poetry (1994).

Brad Cook is a professor of Classics at the University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi, and has written on the lives and legends of the Athenian orator Demosthenes, the Roman orator Cicero, Philip II of Macedon, and Alexander the Great, and on ancient inscriptions and medieval manuscripts.

1. Introduction: defining Greeks & ancient sources; 2. Beginnings: early Greece, Homer & Hesiod; 3. History: Archaic & classical; 4. Politics: Sparta, Athens, & Macedon; 5. Religion: honoring gods, cities, & mortals; 6. Daily life: community & self; 7. Literature: from Sappho to Hyperides; 8. Philosophy & science: seeking to know; 9. Art & architecture: constructing images; 10. Hellenistic culture: from antiquity on; Appendix 1, Chronological Table; Appendix 2, Glossary.