Introduction

• NOTES ON SPELLING
• A NOTE ON NAMES
• The Minoan Age


  c.2600-c.1400 BC
• The Mycenaian Age


  c.1600-c.1100 BC
• The Cataclysms at Thera

  c. 1500-c. 1450 BC
• The Lost Atlantis
• Homeric Epics - The Trojan War
• The Iliad
• Schliemann's Troy and Mycenae
• The Odyssey
• A Note on the Trojan War Story
• THE ARCHAIC PERIOD (c. 800-600 BC)
• Migrations and Settlements
• The City-States and Their Formation
• The Reforms of Solon
• The Principal Greek Colonies (eighth to sixth centuries BC)


  • List of colonies
• Greek Settlements Abroad (eighth to sixth centuries BC)
• The Greeks and the Phoenicians
• Relations with Persia (Sixth Century BC)
• The Persian Wars (546-479 BC)
• The Ionian Revolt
• Persian Expeditions Against the Greeks
• Xerxes' Campaign
• THE CLASSICAL AGE (c.600-c.323 BC)
• From Solon to Perikles: "The Golden Age"
• Peisistratos and Kleisthenes
• The Rise of Athens
• The Age of Perikles (461-429 BC)
• The Parthenon
• The Parthenon: Details
• Some Prominent Figures of the Golden Age (BC)


  • List of figures
• Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC)
• The Archidamian War (431-421 BC)
• 421-413 BC
• The Ionian or Dekelean War 413-404 BC
• Xenophon and the March of the Ten Thousand (401-400BC)
• From the End of the Peloponnesian War to the Age of Philip II (404-359 BC)
• Spartan Hegemony (404-371 BC)
• The Rise of Thebes (371-362)
• Ascendancy of Philip II (359-336 BC)