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 Athens in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries
5 The Athenian 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 Periclean Athens
13 Women, Sexuality, and Family Life
14 The Peloponnesian War
15 Socrates and the Thirty Tyrants
16 The Futility of War
17 Athens and Macedon
18 Alexander the Great
19 The Instability of Syracuse
ACT III: The Hellenistic Period (323-30): Greeks, Macedonians, and Romans
20 The Successor Kingdoms
21 Greeks and Macedonians in the Third Century
22 The Greek Cities in the New World
23 Life and Culture in the Hellenistic World
24 The Roman Conquest
25 A Feat of Imagination
Glossary
Recommended Reading
Index