This book follows the progress of the Greeks from the establishment of farming communities around 6500 BCE, to the rise of the city-states of Sparta and Athens, and on to the dissolution of the empire following the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE.
General Note
Title proper from title frame.
Includes index.
Includes chronologies.
Includes glossary.
Content Note
Bronze Age Greece -- The Minoans -- Mycenae and Troy -- The Dark Age and Greek expansion -- Sparta and Athens -- From tyranny to democracy -- Greek religion -- The birth of drama -- The Persian Wars -- The Age of Pericles -- The great philosophers -- The Peloponnesian War -- Macedon and Alexander the Great -- After Alexander -- The Greek legacy.