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| Maps and Battle Plans | |
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| Preface | |
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| New to the Third Edition | |
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| Translations Used by Permission | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Introduction | |
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| A Bird's-Eye View of Greek History | |
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| Sources: How We Know About the Greeks | |
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| Retrieving the Past: The Material Record | |
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| Retrieving the Past: The Written Record | |
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| Periodization | |
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| Frogs Around a Pond | |
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| City-States | |
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| Greek City-States | |
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| Early Greece and the Bronze Age | |
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| Domestication | |
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| Sources for Early Greek History | |
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| The Land of Greece | |
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| Greece and the Near East in the "Final Neolithic" Period (c. 4000-3000 BC) | |
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| Greece in the Early and Middle Bronze Ages (c. 3000-1600 BC) | |
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| Minoan Civilization | |
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| Greece and the Aegean in the Late Bronze Age (1600-1200 BC) | |
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| The Years of Glory (c. 1400-1200 BC) | |
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| The End of the Mycenaean Civilization | |
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| The "Dark Age" of Greece and the Eighth-Century "Renaissance" (c. 1200-750/700 BC) | |
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| Sources for the Dark Age | |
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| Decline and Recovery (c. 1200-900 BC) | |
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| The New Society of the Dark Age | |
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| Revival (c. 900-750 BC) | |
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| Homer and Oral Poetry | |
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| Late Dark Age (Homeric) Society | |
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| Community, Household, and Economy in the Late Dark Age | |
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| The End of the Dark Age (c. 750-700 BC) | |
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| Archaic Greece (c. 750/700-480 BC) | |
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| Sources for the Seventh and Sixth Centuries | |
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| The Formation of the City-State (Polis) | |
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| The Ethnos | |
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| Government in the Early City-States | |
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| The Colonizing Movement | |
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| Economic and Social Divisions in the Early Poleis | |
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| Hesiod: The View from Below | |
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| The Hoplite Army | |
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| The Archaic Age Tyrants | |
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| Art and Architecture | |
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| Lyric Poetry | |
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| Philosophy and Science | |
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| Panhellenic Institutions | |
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| Relations Among States | |
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| Sparta | |
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| Sources for Spartan History and Institutions | |
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| The Dark Age and the Archaic Period | |
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| The Spartan System | |
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| Demography and the Spartan Economy | |
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| Spartan Government | |
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| Sparta and Greece | |
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| Historical Change in Sparta | |
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| The Spartan Mirage in Western Thought | |
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| The Growth of Athens and the Persian Wars | |
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| Sources for Early Athens | |
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| Athens from the Bronze Age to the Early Archaic Age | |
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| The Reforms of Solon | |
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| Pisistratus and His Sons | |
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| The Reforms of Cleisthenes | |
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| The Rise of Persia | |
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| The Wars Between Greece and Persia | |
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| The Other War: Carthage and the Greek Cities of Sicily | |
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| The Rivalries of the Greek City-States and the Growth of Athenian Democracy | |
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| Sources for the Decades After the Persian Wars | |
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| The Aftermath of the Persian Wars and the Foundation of the Delian League | |
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| The "First" (Undeclared) Peloponnesian War (460-445 BC) | |
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| Pericles and the Growth of Athenian Democracy | |
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| Literature and Art | |
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| Oikos and Polis | |
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| The Greek Economy | |
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| Greece on the Eve of the Peloponnesian War | |
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| Sources for Greece on the Eve of the War | |
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| Greece After the Thirty Years' Peace | |
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| The Breakdown of the Peace | |
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| Resources for War | |
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| Intellectual Life in Fifth-Century Greece | |
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| Historical and Dramatic Literature of the Fifth Century | |
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| Currents in Greek Thought and Education | |
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| The Physical Space of the Polis: Athens on the Eve of War | |
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| The Peloponnesian War | |
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| Sources for Greece During the Peloponnesian War | |
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| The Archidamian War (431-421 BC) | |
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| The Rise of Comedy | |
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| Between Peace and War | |
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| The Invasion of Sicily (415-413 BC) | |
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| The War in the Aegean and the Oligarchic Coup at Athens (413-411 BC) | |
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| Fallout from the Long War | |
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| The War in Retrospect | |
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| The Crisis of the Polis and the Age of Shifting Hegemonies | |
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| Sources for Fourth-Century Greece | |
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| Postwar Greece and the Struggle for Hegemony | |
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| Law and Democracy in Athens | |
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| The Fourth-Century Polis | |
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| Philosophy and the Polis | |
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| Philip II and the Rise of Macedon | |
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| Sources for Macedonian History | |
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| Early Macedonia | |
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| Macedonian Society and Kingship | |
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| The Reign of Philip II | |
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| Macedonian Domination of Greece | |
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| Alexander the Great | |
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| Sources for the Reign of Alexander | |
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| Consolidating Power | |
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| From Issus to Egypt: Conquest of the Eastern Mediterranean (332-331 BC) | |
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| From Alexandria to Persepolis: The King of Asia (331-330 BC) | |
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| The High Road to India: Alexander in Central Asia | |
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| India and the End of the Dream | |
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| Return to the West | |
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| Alexander's Successors and the Cosmopolis | |
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| A New World | |
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| Sources for the Hellenistic Period | |
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| The Struggle for the Succession | |
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| The Regency of Perdiccas | |
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| The Primacy of Antigonus the One-Eyed | |
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| Birth Pangs of the New Order (301-276 BC) | |
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| The Place of the Polis in the Cosmopolis | |
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| The Macedonian Kingdoms | |
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| Hellenistic Society | |
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| Alexandria and Hellenistic Culture | |
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| Social Relations in the Hellenistic World | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Art and Illustration Credits | |
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| Index | |