A History of Greece, 1300 to 30 BCA History of Greece: 1300‒30 BC, offers a comprehensive introduction to the foundational political history of Greece, from the late Mycenaean Age through to the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Hellenistic monarch of Egypt.
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Contents
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The Mycenaean Age | 23 |
The End of the Bronze Age and the Great Migrations | 46 |
Greece in the Later Dark Age circa 900750 BC | 58 |
Colonization | 75 |
Sparta from the Messenian Wars to the Creation of | 93 |
Tyranny | 106 |
Athens from Cylon to Cleisthenes | 121 |
The Boeotian Ascendancy in Greece and | 243 |
The West from the Sicilian Expedition to the Campaigns | 257 |
Philip of Macedon and the Conquest of Greece | 272 |
Alexander the Great and the Conquest of Persia | 293 |
The Wars of the Diadochi | 319 |
The Creation of the Hellenistic States | 336 |
Sicily and the West from Agathocles to the First Punic War | 351 |
The Hellenistic World in Equilibrium | 364 |
Persia and the Ionian Revolt | 138 |
The Athenian Empire | 171 |
Sparta and Athens during the Pentecontaetia | 182 |
From the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War to the Peace | 203 |
From the Peace of Nicias to the Surrender of Athens | 210 |
The Lacedaemonian Ascendancy in Greece | 227 |
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