List of Maps.

List of Timelines.

Foreword: Looking Backward.

1. Greece in the Bronze Age.

2. Iron Age Greece.

3. The Poems of Hesiod and Homer.

4. Poetry and Sculpture of the Archaic Period.

5. Symposia, Seals, and Ceramics in the Archaic Period.

6. The Birth of Philosophy and the Persian Wars.

7. Setting the Stage for Democracy.

8. History and Tragedy in the Fifth Century BC.

9. The Peloponnesian War: A Tale of Thucydides.

10. Stage and Lawcourt in Late Fifth-Century BC Athens.

11. The Transformation of the Greek World in the Fourth Century BC.

12. Greek Culture in the Hellenistic Period.

Afterword: Looking Forward.

Glossary.

Index.