ANCIENT GREECE: The History of Classical Greece from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age by John Bagnell Bury

ANCIENT GREECE: The History of Classical Greece from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Hellenistic Age

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  • Genre Ancient History
  • Publisher Good Press
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  • Size 3.64 MB
  • Length 805 Pages

Description

The "Ancient Greece" is a comprehensive history of Greece which covers the period of over 2000 years and follows emergence, rise and decline of one of the greatest civilizations in the history of the world.
Contents:
Greece and the Aegean
The Heroic and the Greek Dark Ages
The Beginnings of Greece and the Heroic Age
The Expansion of Greece
Archaic Greece
Growth of Sparta - Fall of the Aristocracies
The Union of Attica and the Foundation of the Athenian Democracy
Growth of Athens in the Sixth Century
The Advance of Persia to the Aegean
Classical Greece
The Perils of Greece - the Persian and Punic Invasions
The Foundation of the Athenian Empire
The Athenian Empire Under the Guidance of Pericles
The Decline and Downfall of the Athenian Empire
The Spartan Supremacy and the Persian War
The Revival of Athens and Her Second League
The Hegemony of Thebes
The Syracusan Empire and the Struggle With Carthage
Macedonian Hegemony
The Rise of Macedonia
The Conquest of Persia
The Conquest of the Far East
The Hellenistic Age

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