Includes index.

Introduction -- Timeline -- Minoans and Myceneans -- Sites : Knossos, Santorini -- Sites : Mycenae, Pylos -- The dark age -- Aristocrats and poets -- Colonization -- Magna Graecia and the tyrants -- The Spartans -- Spartan life -- Athens and democracy -- Sites : Aathens -- Sites : the Akropolis -- Everyday life in Athens -- War against Persia -- Athenian wars -- Spartan Empire -- The rise of Macedon -- Sites : Vergina -- Alexander the Great -- Successor kingdoms -- Culture and society -- Gods of Olympus -- Sites : Delphi -- Sites : Olympia -- The Trireme -- Hoplites -- Greek trade.