books.google.co.uk - The first section of this volume examines the Persian empire, the regions it comprised, and its expansion under Cyrus, Darius, and Xerxes. In Greece, Sparta attained maturity as the leader of a military coalition and Athens passed through a period of enlightened tyranny to a moderate democracy of dynamic...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Cambridge_Ancient_History.html?id=nNDpPqeDjo0C&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Cambridge Ancient History
