Zusammenfassung
Originally published in 1914, Edmonds' book is a succinct introduction to the history, art, literature and geography of ancient Greece from the prehistoric Aegean civilizations to the sack of Corinth by the Romans in 146 BC. This book is still useful as a general introduction to ancient Greece.

Inhalt

Preface; 1. The geography of Greece; 2. Aegean civilisation; 3. The heroic and Homeric age; 4. The age of colonisation; 5. The rise of Sparta; 6. Tyranny; 7. The early history of Athens; 8. The rise of Athens; 9. Ionia and Persia; 10. Marathon; 11. Thermopylae and Salamis; 12. Plataea; 13. The growth of Athenian power; 14. The Athenian empire under Pericles; 15. Athenian life; 16. The outbreak of the Peloponnesian war; 17. The first part of the Peloponnesian war; 18. The Athenian expedition to Siciliy; 19. The fall of Athens; 20. The Spartan supremacy; 21. The fall of Spartan supremacy; 22. The Theban supremacy; 23. Dionysius of Syracuse; 24. Philip of Macedon; 25. Alexander the Great; 26. The successors of Alexander; 27. The culture of the Hellenistic age; 28. Greece and Rome; Index.