进一步阅读
A.Andrewes,Greek Society(Harmondsworth,1975)是最好的关于希腊历史的一般性介绍;O. Murray,Early Greece(London,1980)是关于这一时期的一本很好的现代作品。更详细的记述能够在Cambridge Ancient History第二版第3卷第3分册(1982)中找到。该书涉及公元前8—前6世纪希腊世界的扩张。C.W.Fornara,Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian Wa r(Cambridge,1983)是一本颇有用处的译文资料集。
关于希腊黑暗时代,参见A.M. Snodgrass,The Dark Age of Greece(Edinburgh,1971);V. R. D'A. Desborough,The Greek Dark Ages(London,1972);J.N.Coldstream,Geometric Greece(London,1979)。关于荷马的历史价值,其讨论开始于M. I. Finley,The World of Odysseus(Cambridge,1954)。1980年发现于拉法坎狄(优卑亚)的英雄墓冢,其叙述见M.R. Popham,E. Touloupa,and L.H. Sackett in Antiquity 56(1982),169—74。
关于希腊古风时代,参见W.G.Forrest,The Emergence of Greek Democracy(London,1966);L.H. Jeffery,Archaic Greece(London,1976);A.M. Snodgrass,Archaic Greece(London,1980)。A.R. Burn写的两本书提供了更长篇幅的精辟论述:The Lyric Age of Greece(London,1960);Persia and the Greeks(London,1962;2nd edn.,with an appendix by D.M. Lewis,1984)。关于单独主题的重要作品有:J. Boardman,The Greeks Overseas(3rd edn.,London,1980);A. Andrewes,The Greek Tyrants(London,1956);CM. Kraay,Archaic and Classical Greek Coins(London,1976);H.W. Parke,Greek Oracles(London,1967);W.G. Forrest,A History of Sparta(2nd edn.London,1980);P.A.Cartledge,Sparta and Laconia(London,1979);J.B. Salmon,Wealthy Corinth(Oxford,1984);R. A. Tomlmson,Argos and the Argolid(London,1972);T.J. Dunbabin,The Western Greeks(Oxford,1948)。