1.  Greek Environment and Prehistory

The Mediterranean and Near Eastern Context of Greek History

Greek Prehistory: The Early Neolithic Background

The Middle and Late Neolithic Background

The Early Bronze Age

Middle Helladic -- Kolonna

 

2.  Minoan Crete

Myth and History

Pre-Palatial Crete

Old Palace Period

The New Palace Period

Mycenaeans at Knossos

A Return to Regionalism

The Final Destruction of the Palace at Knossos

Chronology of the Bronze Age in Crete

 

3.  Mycenaean Greece

The Early Mycenaeans

Tholos Tombs ca. 1525 to 1275

The Mycenaean Palace Period

The Mycenaeans Overseas

 

4.  From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age -- A Dark Age?

The End of the Bronze Age

Recovery: The Eleventh and Early Tenth Centuries

The Geometric Period: Tenth and Ninth Centuries

Earliest Overseas Settlements in the West

State Formation and the Origins of the Greek Polis

 

5.  Archaic Greece: The Eight Century Renaissance and Revolution

Literary Evicednce: Homer and Hesiod

The Expansion of Overseas Settlement

The Rise of the Panhellenic Shrines

 

6.  Crisis in the Polis: Two Solutions

Tyrrany: The View from Corinth

The Spartan Solution

 

7.  Archaic Athens: Crisis and Reform

Earliest Athens

The Development of the Athenian Polis

 

8.  Archaic Ionia: Greeks and Persians

The Ionian Enlightenment

The Lydians and the Greeks

The Coming of the Persians

 

9.  The Persian Wars

The First Persian War

The Second Persian War

 

10. Athens: The Development of Empire and Democracy

Athens Develops an Empire

Thucydides and Other Historical Sources

The Changing Face of Athens after the Persian Wars

 

11. Status and Gender in the Greek World

Ideology and the Polis

Athenian Citizens

Non-Citizen, Free Residents -- Metics

Slaves and Slavery

 

12. The Sophists, Thucydides, and the Peloponnesian War

The Inheritance of the Ionian Enlightenment

The Peloponnesian War

The Oligarchic Coup of 411: The Four Hundred and the Five Thousand

 

13. Greece in the Fourth Century

Political History in Greece in the Fourth Century

The Economic Scene in Fourth-Century Athens

Philosophy in the Fourth Century

Philip of Macedon

 

14. Alexander the Great

The Sources on Alexander

The Expedition: Asia Minor and the Sea Coast

The Death of Alexander

 

15. The Hellenistic World

After the Battle of Ipsus

The Kingdoms after Rome Entered the Picture, ca. 200

Hellenistic Culture

 

Glossary

Map Exercises

Index