Contents
The Greeks and the Bronze Age -- Iron Age Greece -- The poems of Hesiod and Homer -- Poetry and sculpture of the Archaic Period -- Symposia, seals, and ceramics in the Archaic Period -- The birth of philosophy and the Persian Wars -- Setting the stage for Democracy -- History and tragedy in the Fifth Century -- The Peloponnesian War : A tale of Thucydides -- Stage and law court in late Fifth Century Athens -- The transformation of the Greek world in the Fourth Century -- Greek culture in the Hellenistic Period -- Afterword : looking forward.
