ISBN: 9781933834559

Description: pages cm.

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

• Introduction
• Timeline
• Minoans and Myceneans
• Sites : Knossos, Santorini
• Sites : Mycenae, Pylos
• The dark age
• Aristocrats and poets
• Colonization
• Magna Graecia and the tyrants
• The Spartans
• Spartan life
• Athens and democracy
• Sites : Aathens
• Sites : the Akropolis
• Everyday life in Athens
• War against Persia
• Athenian wars
• Spartan Empire
• The rise of Macedon
• Sites : Vergina
• Alexander the Great
• Successor kingdoms
• Culture and society
• Gods of Olympus
• Sites : Delphi
• Sites : Olympia
• The Trireme
• Hoplites
• Greek trade.

LCCN: 2009016803

Control Number: 706138

Series:

• Facts at your fingertips
• Facts at your fingertips.

Subjects: Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.

Other Authors: Dalal, Anita.