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| Cast of Characters | |
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| Map of Greek Settlements at the Death of Alexander the Great | |
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| Introduction: The Glory that Was Greece | |
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| Herodotus | |
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| Thucydides | |
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| What's a Greek? Greece and Greeks | |
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| Homer | |
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| Gods, Priests, and Oracles: Greek Religion | |
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| Homer | |
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| Mysterious Minoans: The Earliest Greeks | |
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| The Palace of Knossos | |
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| Thucydides | |
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| A Great Civilization is Born: Mighty Mycenaeans | |
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| Linear B tablet from the Palace of Knossos | |
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| Always Look a Gift Horse in the Belly: The Trojan War | |
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| Homer | |
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| Hissarlik | |
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| Sing, Muse: Early Poets | |
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| Homer | |
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| Hesiod | |
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| Archilochus | |
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| Sappho | |
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| Greece Spreads its Wings: Colonies and City-States | |
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| An inscription of a Greek law from Cyrene | |
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| Homer | |
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| Who's in Charge Here? The Rise of Athens | |
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| Solon | |
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| Herodotus | |
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| A popular Athenian song | |
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| "A Living Possession": Slavery | |
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| Crates | |
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| Xenophon | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| Growing up Greek: Greek Childhood | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| Plato | |
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| An epitaph for a little girl | |
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| "A Shadowy Existence": The Women of Ancient Greece | |
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| Euripides | |
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| Plato | |
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| Homer | |
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| Hesiod | |
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| Semonides | |
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| Xenophon | |
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| Phintys | |
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| The Spartan Experiment: Daily Life in Ancient Sparta | |
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| Xenophon | |
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| Plutarch | |
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| Herodotus | |
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| Menander | |
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| "Woe to the Land of Persia!": The Persian Empire and Its War with Greece | |
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| Herodotus | |
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| Aeschylus | |
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| "The Hands of the Many": Democracy in Athens | |
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| Pericles | |
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| Isocrates | |
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| Aeschines | |
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| Hoplites and Triremes: Warfare | |
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| Tyrtaeus | |
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| Homer | |
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| Plutarch | |
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| Xenophon | |
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| Euripides | |
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| The Greek World War: The Peloponnesian War | |
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| Plutarch | |
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| Pericles | |
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| Xenophon | |
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| Take two Vulture's Eggs and Call me in the Morning: Science and Medicine | |
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| Plutarch | |
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| Hippocrates | |
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| "Freed from the Clash of Arms": The Olympic Games | |
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| Bacchylides | |
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| Athenaeus | |
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| Pausanias | |
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| Striving for Perfection: The Visual Arts | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| A Minoan drinking cup | |
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| Protagoras | |
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| Kleobis and Biton | |
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| The Parthenon | |
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| Polykleitos | |
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| "All the World's a Stage": Greek Drama | |
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| Sophocles | |
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| Going to School: Greek Education | |
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| Hyperides | |
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| Plato | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| How Do We Know what We Know? Greek Philosophy | |
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| Socrates | |
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| Aristophanes | |
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| Two Philosophers: Plato and Aristotle | |
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| Plato | |
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| Aristotle | |
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| "A Pestilent Man": Philip of Macedon | |
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| Isocrates | |
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| Demosthenes | |
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| Plutarch | |
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| Diodorus Siculus | |
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| Worlds to Conquer: Alexander the Great | |
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| Plutarch | |
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| Arrian | |
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| But is it Still Greek? The Hellenistic World | |
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| Altar of Zeus at Pergamum | |
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| Herodotus | |
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| Epilogue: The Greek Legacy | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Websites | |
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| Index | |