List of Plates 9
Preface 11
1 Who Were the Greeks? 15
2 The Dark Age and the Homeric Poems 19
Periods of Greek History 29
3 Archaic Greece 30
COLONIZATION 36
TYRANTS AND LAWGIVERS 40
THE COMMUNITY,RELIGION AND PAN-HELLENISM 46
4 The Classical City-State 54
WAR AND EMPIRE 60
ATHENS 70
SPARTA 82
THE DECLINE OF THE POLIS 87
5 Literature 94
POETRY 96
TRAGEDY 99
COMEDY 106
PROSE 110
6 Science,Philosophy and Popular Morals 117
SCIENCE 120
PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS 128
POPULAR ATTITUDES AND MORALS 135
7 The Visual Arts 151
ARCHITECTURE AND CITY-PLANNING 156
SCULPTURE 160
PAINTING 166
8 The Hellenistic Age 170
GREEK CITIES AND ABSOLUTE MONARCHS 172
GREEKS AND ROMANS 178
Chronological Table 181
Notes on the Plates 185
Bibliography 193
Index 199
MAPS 14
The Greek World 14
The Greek Mainland 31