• Combines the most recent research from the fields of social history, archaeology, and comparative anthropology
• Covers the entire span of Greek history from the Bronze Age to the Hellenistic Era
• Detailed coverage of women and family life, religion, and athletics in Greek life, as well as discussion of male homosexuality in Ancient Greece
• Includes a variety of primary source material
• Expert authors are active researchers in different fields of Greek history

Readership: Students of Classics and Ancient History

Sarah B. Pomeroy, Distinguished Professor of Classics, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, Stanley M. Burstein, Professor of History, California State University, Los Angeles, Walter Donlan, Professor of Classics, University of California, Irvine, and Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Professor of Classics and History, City College and CUNY Graduate Center

"... the span of history is once again extremely generous, from the Stone Age to the Battle of Actium. Few histories of Greece have such a beginning and such an end, and even fewer incorporate the most recent research in archaeology, comparative anthropology, and social history." - Scholia Reviews

"... this more concise version introduces the history and civilisation of ancient Greece in all its complexity and variety and steers us away from monolithic, Grotean interpretations towards multiple authorship stressing social and cultural history." - Scholia Reviews

Introduction
Early Greece and the Bronze Age
Archaic Greece (c. 700-500 BC)
Sparta
The Growth of Athens and the Persian Wars
The Rivalries of the Greek City-States and the Growth of Athenian Democracy
Greece on the Eve of the Peloponnesian War
The Peloponnesian War
The Crisis of the Polis and the Age of Shifting Hegemonies
Phillip II and the Rise of Macedon
Alexander the Great
Alexander's Successors and the Cosmopolis
Epilogue