1 The polis: the Greek city-state
The government of the city-state
Athens: "the violet-crowned city"
The workings of Athenian democracy
Rich and poor in Athens
Citizenship
The less than ideal citizen
City-states and their laws
Leagues, unions and federations
Trade and commerce
The grain trade
The superstars of the city-state
2 Colonisation
The Delphic oracle
The oikistes
Mother-cities and their colonies
The Colonisation of the west: Italy and Sicily
The Black Sea and Propontis
Spartan colonisation
The colonisation of Thasos by Paros
The Greeks at Cyrene
The Greeks in Egypt: traders and mercenaries
Greeks and indigenous populations
3 Religion in the Greek world
The Olympian religion and its critics
Sacrifice and public worship
Divination: omens and oracles
Festivals
The Eleusinian Mysteries
Asklepios the healer
Heroes
Sanctuaries and cult regulations
Death and funeral practices
Women and their religious role
Myrrhine, priestess of Athena Nike
Personal piety
Socrates and the 'new atheism'
The Greeks and their identity
4 Women, sexuality, and the family
Sappho of Lesbos
Early moralisers and misogynists
Spartan women and families
The 'historical' woman
Inscriptional evidence
The legal status of women
The working woman: at home and abroad
Women in Greek drama
Homosexuality and pederasty
Prostitution
Epilogue
5 Labour: slaves, serfs and citizens
Enslavement and the slave trade
Slaves: their occupations and training
Slave prices and earnings
Slaves in war
The legal position of slaves
Metics
Helots, perioikoi and serfs
Citizen labour
The dramatic slave
6 Sparta
Lykourgos 'the lawgiver'
The Spartan ethos
The Spartan constitution
Spartan kingship
Aristotle's criticisms of the constitution
Community life in Sparta
Spartan foreign affairs
The Spartan economy and view of money
Kleomenes: the 'mad' Spartan king
Later views of the Spartans
7 Tyrants and tyranny
Tyranny at Sicyon: the Orthagorids, 656/5 ?-556/5 ? BC
Tyranny at Corinth: the Kypselids, c. 658-c. 585 BC
Theagenes and tyranny in Megara, c. 640 BC
Kylon's attempted tyranny at Athens
Tyranny at Mytilene
Polykrates of Samos
Polykrates' patronage of the arts
The earlier Sicilian tyrants
The fourth-century Sicilian tyrants
Sicilian tyrants and the pan-Hellenic games
Tyrants and public works
Aristotle on tyranny
8 The law-givers of Athens: Drakon and Solon
Drakon the law-giver
Poverty and inequality in Attica before Solon
Solon and his background
The seisachtheia
Solon's constitutional reforms
Solon's social and judicial legislation
Solon on trade and agriculture
Solon's 'apodemia'
Reactions to Solon's legislation
Solon and tyranny
9 Peisistratos and his sons
The three 'parties'
Peisistratos 'first tyranny
Peisistratos' second tyranny
Peisistratos in exile
Peisistratos returns to power for the third time
Peisistratos as tyrant
Peisistratos ' family
The reign of the Peisistratidai
The tyrants and public works
The assassination of Hipparchos
The tyranny becomes harsher
The overthrow of the tyranny by the Spartans
The cult of the tyrannicides
Drinking songs in praise of the tyrannicides
10 Kleisthenes the reformer
Kleisthenes, Isagoras and Kleomenes
Tribes, boule and strategia
Ostracism
Demes and trittyes
11 The Persian Wars
Darius and the Persians
The Ionian Revolt
Marathon, 490 BC
Xerxes'campaigns
Greece prepares for the attack
Thermopylai and Artemision
Salamis
Plataea
12 The Delian League and the Pentekontaetia
The origins of the Delian League
The aftermath of the Persian Wars
Constitutional change in Athens
Athenian military campaigns
The First Peloponnesian War, 460-445 BC
Perikles "the Olympian"
The tribute
Athenian decrees concerning Athens' allies
13 The Peloponnesian War and its aftermath
The outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
14 The rise of Macedon
15 Alexander 'the Great' of Macedon, 336-323 BC
16 The ancient sources