The Pelican History of GreeceThe general reader is introduced to Greek history from the time of the neolit pioneers to the close of the Hellenistic Age. |
Contents
PREHISTORY | 12 |
Beginnings | 21 |
Peoples and Languages and the Coming | 30 |
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Achaians Acropolis Aegean Aeschylus Aigina Alexander Alkibiades alliance allies ancient Antigonos Archon Argos army Asia Assembly Athenian Athens attack Attica battle Boiotia bronze called campaign cavalry century citizens civilisation classical coast colonies Corinth Cretan Crete Cyprus Darius death defeated Delphoi democracy democratic Dorian east Egypt Egyptian empire enemy Euboia Euripides exiles famous father fighting fleet force gods Greece Greek Herodotos Homer Ionia island killed king Kleomenes Knosós Kroton land later League Macedonia mainland Megara Miletos Minoan modern Mycenae Mycenaean Nikias palace peace Peloponnese Peloponnesians perhaps Pericles Persian Pheidias Philip Phoenician Phokis Piraeus Plato poems poet political pottery probably Pylos revolution Roman Salamis Samos says sent ships Sicily slaves Socrates Sparta story survived Syracuse temple Thebes Themistokles Thermopylai Thessaly things thought Thucydides tion took tradition troops Troy tyrant victory walls Xerxes young Zeus