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Maps and Battle Plans | |
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Preface | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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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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The Discovery of Aegean Civilization: Troy, Mycenae, Knossos | |
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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. 1200-700 BC) | |
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Sources for the Dark Age | |
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Decline and Recovery (c. 1150-900 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. 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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Relations Between States | |
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Panhellenic Institutions | |
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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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Phillip 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 | |