Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Chronology and King Lists
Introduction I: Historical Background
Introduction II: Environmental Background
ACT I: The Archaic Period (c. 750-480): The Formation of States
1:The Emergence of the Greeks in the Mediterranean
2:Aristocracy and the Archaic State
3:The Archaic Greek World
4:Early Athens
5:The Democratic Revolution
6:Sparta
7:Greek Religion
8:The Persian Wars
9:The Greeks at War
ACT II: The Classical Period (479-323): A Tale, Mainly, of Two Cities
10:The Delian League
11:The Economy of Greece
12:Athens in the Age of Pericles
13:Women, Sexuality, and Family Life
14:The Peloponnesian War
15:The Insatiability of ASyracuse
16:Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants
17:The Futility of War
18:The Macedonian Conquest
19:Alexander the Great
ACT III: The Hellenistic Period (323-30): Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans
20:The Successor Kingdoms
21:A Time of Adjustment
22:The Greek Cities in the New World
23:Social Life and Intellectual Culture
24:The Roman Conquest
25:A Feat of Imagination
Glossary
Recommended Reading

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