BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 THE ARCHAIC -- THE POST-MYCENAEAN PERIOD AND LEFKANDI -- "COLONIZATION" AND CITY-STATE FORMATION -- OVERSEAS PROJECTS -- THE BEGINNINGS OF THE POLIS -- EARLY ARCHAIC GREEK CIVILIZATION -- THE SOURCES -- BACCHIADAE AND EUPATRIDAE -- SYMPOSIA AND GYMNASIA -- FORMAL RELATIONSHIPS -- THE LELANTINE WAR -- THE LATER ARCHAIC PERIOD -- THE DECLINE OF THE ARISTOCRACY -- CHANGES IN WARFARE -- THE EARLY TYRANNIES -- SPARTA -- THE RHETRA -- THE HELOT FACTOR -- THE PELOPONNESIAN LEAGUE -- ATHENS -- SOLON -- THE PEISISTRATID TYRANNY -- THE REFORMS OF CLEISTHENES -- THE WORLD OF THE TYRANTS -- INTERMARRIAGE BETWEEN THE GREAT HOUSES -- POETRY AND ART -- INTERNATIONAL INFLUENCES -- CHAPTER 2 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: THE PERSIAN WARS -- THE IONIAN REVOLT -- CAUSES OF THE PERSIAN WARS -- ECONOMIC FACTORS -- POLITICAL FACTORS -- ATHENIAN SUPPORT OF IONIA -- SPARTA'S FOREIGN RELATIONS -- THE ROLE OF CLEOMENES -- AFTERMATH OF THE BATTLE OF MARATHON -- THE SYSTEM OF OSTRACISM -- GREEK PREPARATIONS FOR WAR -- GREEK ALLIANCES -- THE LAST PERSIAN WARS -- THERMOPYLAE -- SALAMIS -- PLATAEA -- CHAPTER 3 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE -- THE FORTIFICATION OF ATHENS -- THE AMBITION OF PAUSANIAS -- PAYING TRIBUTE TO ATHENS -- STRAINS ON GREEK UNITY AND MOUNTING ATHENIAN AGGRESSION -- CIMON'S ACTIONS -- ATHENS'S MOVES AGAINST OTHER GREEKS -- ATHENS'S MOVES NORTHWARD -- SPARTA'S RESPONSES -- THE EPHIALTIC REFORMS -- LEGAL REFORMS -- POLITICAL REFORMS -- THE REJECTION OF CIMON -- ATHENIAN EXPANSION -- FRICTION BETWEEN ATHENS AND CORINTH -- THE SCALE OF ATHENIAN AMBITION -- SPARTA'S RESISTANCE -- PEACE WITH PERSIA -- REVOLTS OF ATHENS'S TRIBUTARY STATES -- ECONOMIC SOURCES OF RESENTMENT -- POLITICAL AND LEGAL SOURCES OF RESENTMENT -- THE EUBOEAN REVOLT.

GREEK COMMUNITIES IN ITALY AND SICILY -- CHAPTER 4 CLASSICAL GREEK CIVILIZATION: THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR -- CAUSES -- THE INITIAL PHASE, 431-425 -- PERICLES -- SPARTA'S ROLE -- CONTINUING STRIFE -- MYTILENE AND PLATAEA -- SPECULATION AND UNEASE -- THE YEARS 425-421 -- SPARTAN CALLS FOR PEACE -- CLEON'S INFLUENCE -- SPARTAN RECOVERY -- ATHENIAN AGGRESSION OUTSIDE THE PELOPONNESE -- ENTANGLEMENT WITH PERSIA -- HARSH TREATMENT OF MELOS -- THE SICILIAN DISASTER -- THE SECOND PHASE OF THE WAR, 413-404 -- CHAPTER 5 GREEK CIVILIZATION IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC -- INTELLECTUAL ACHIEVEMENTS -- THE EFFECT OF THE PERSIAN WARS ON PHILOSOPHY -- THE RISE OF DEMOCRACY -- HIPPOCRATES AND THE FLUIDITY OF GENRES -- GREEK DRAMA -- GREEK TRAGEDY -- GREEK COMEDY -- THE LITURGY SYSTEM -- THE ROLES OF WOMEN AND SLAVES -- WOMEN -- SLAVES -- MILITARY TECHNOLOGY -- CHAPTER 6 GREECE IN THE FOURTH CENTURY BC -- DIONYSIUS I OF SYRACUSE -- THE CORINTHIAN WAR -- THE KING'S PEACE -- FROM 386 BC TO THE DECLINE OF SPARTA -- SPARTAN ADVENTURES -- THE SECOND ATHENIAN CONFEDERACY -- THEBAN EXPANSION -- ATHENS AND THEBES -- THE RISE OF MACEDON -- MACEDONIAN SUPREMACY IN GREECE -- ALEXANDER THE GREAT -- ALEXANDER AND THE GREEKS -- ALEXANDER IN EGYPT -- TO THE PERSIAN GATES -- THE CONQUEST OF BACTRIA AND THE INDUS VALLEY -- THE FINAL PHASE -- GREEK CIVILIZATION IN THE FOURTH CENTURY -- HISTORICAL WRITINGS -- ARCHITECTURE AND SCULPTURE -- SOCIAL AND COMMERCIAL EXCHANGES -- ORGANIZED SETTLEMENTS -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX: PRE-GREEKAEGEAN CIVILIZATIONS -- MINOAN CIVILIZATION -- DAEDALUS -- KNOSSOS -- MINOS -- MYCENAEAN CIVILIZATION -- ACHAEANS -- AGAMEMNON -- MYCENAE -- THE TROJAN WAR -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.