Description: List of MapsPrefaceAcknowledgmentsTime LineI. Early Greece and the Bronze AgeThe Land of GreeceSources for Early Greek HistoryGreece in the Stone AgesThe Ancient Civilizations of the Near EastGreece in the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000-2100 BC)Greece in the Middle Bronze Age (c. 2100-1600 BC)The Discovery of Aegean Civilization: Troy, Mycenae, KnossosMinoan Society and Culture (c. 1700-1500 BC)The MycenaeansThe Early Mycenaeans (c. 1600-1400 BC)The Later Mycenaeans (c. 1400-1200 BC)The End of the Mycenaean CivilizationII. The "Dark Age" of Greece and the Eighth-Century "Renaissance" (c. 1150-700 BC)Sources for the Dark AgeDecline and Recovery (c. 1150-900 BC)Society in the Early Dark AgeRevival (c. 900-750 BC)Homer and Oral PoetryLate Dark Age (Homeric) SocietyCommunity, Household, and Economy in the Late Dark AgeThe End of the Dark Age (c. 750-700 BC)III. Archaic Greece (c. 700-500 BC)Sources for the Seventh and Sixth CenturiesThe Formation of the City-State (Polis)The EthnosGovernment in the Early City-StatesThe Colonizing MovementEconomic and Social Divisions in the Early PoleisHesiod: The View from BelowThe Hoplite ArmyThe Archaic Age TyrantsArt and ArchitectureLyric PoetryPhilosophy and ScienceRelations Between StatesPanhellenic InstitutionsIV. SpartaSources for Spartan History and InstitutionsThe Dark Age and the Archaic PeriodThe Spartan SystemDemography and the Spartan EconomySpartan GovernmentSparta and GreeceHistorical Change in SpartaThe Spartan MirageV. The Growth of Athens and the Persian WarsSources for Early AthensAthens from the Bronze Age to the Early Archaic AgeThe Reforms of SolonPeisistratus and His SonsThe Reforms of CleisthenesThe Rise of PersiaThe Wars Between Greece and PersiaVI. The Rivalries of the Greek City-States and the Growth of Athenian DemocracySources for the Decades After the Persian WarsThe Aftermath of the Persian Wars and the Foundation of the Delian LeagueThe "First" (Undeclared) Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC)Pericles and the Growth of Athenian DemocracyLiterature and ArtOikos and PolisThe Greek EconomyVII. Greece on the Eve of the Peloponnesian WarSources for Greece on the Eve of the WarGreece After the Thirty Years' PeaceThe Breakdown of the PeaceResources for WarIntellectual Life in Fifth-century GreeceThe Literature of the Fifth CenturyCurrents in Greek Thought and EducationThe Physical Space of the Polis: Athens on the Eve of WarVIII. The Peloponnesian WarSources for Greece During the Peloponnesian WarThe Archidamian War (431-421 BC)Between Peace and WarThe Invasion of Sicily (415-413 BC)The War in the Aegean and the Oligarchic Coup at Athens (413-411 BC)Fallout from the Long WarThe War in RetrospectIX. The Crisis of the Polis and the Age of Shifting HegemoniesSources for Fourth-century GreecePostwar Greece and the Struggle for HegemonyLaw and Democracy in AthensThe Fourth-century PolisPhilosophy and the PolisX. Phillip II and the Rise of MacedonSources for Macedonian HistoryEarly MacedoniaMacedonian Society and KingshipThe Reign of Philip IIMacedonian Domination of GreeceXI. Alexander the GreatSources for the Reign of AlexanderConsolidating PowerFrom Issus to Egypt: Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (332-331 BC)From Alexandria to Persepolis: The King of Asia (331-330 BC)The High Road to India: Alexander in Central AsiaIndia and the End of the DreamReturn to the WestXII.. Alexander's Successors and the CosmopolisA New WorldSources for the Hellenistic PeriodThe Struggle for the SuccessionThe Regency of PerdiccasThe Primacy of Antigonus the One-EyedBirth Pangs of the New Order (301-276 BC)The Place of the Polis in the CosmopolisThe Macedonian KingdomsHellenistic SocietyAlexandria and Hellenistic CultureSocial Relations in the Hellenistic WorldEpilogueGlossaryArt and Illustration CreditsIndex

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