A History of Greece to 322 B.C. by N.G.L.Hammond

CONTENTS

 

List of figures

 

List of Plates

 

Abbreviations

 

Short Selection of Translations

 

Introduction

 

The Geography of the Greek Peninsula and Islands

§1．Climate － land and sea communications －other general characteristics

§2．North-west Greece - north-east Greece - central Greece - Peloponnese - Ionian Islands -

        Aegean islands

§3．Changes since antiquity

 

Book Ⅰ

 

The early civilizations of Greece and the great migrations (c. 6000 - 850)

 

The sources of knowledge

 

Chapter 1. The settlement of the Aegean islands and Minoan civilization

 

Chapter 2. The Greek mainland and Mycenaean civilization

 

Chapter 3. The great migrations

 

Book Ⅱ

 

The renaissance of Greece (850 - 546)

 

The sources of knowledge

 

Chapter 1. A period of cultural and political revival (850 - 730)

 

Chapter 2. The colonial expansion of the Greek city-states

 

Chapter 3. The commercial development of the Greek states c. 750 - 550

 

Chapter 4. Warfare in the period 750 - 550

 

Chapter 5. Constitutional developments (excluding Athens)

 

Chapter 6. Constitutional developments at Athens and the Spartan alliance

 

Chapter 7. Religion and culture 850 - 546

 

Book Ⅲ

 

The triumph of Greece (546 - 466)

 

Chapter 1. The advance of Persia and the growth of Athens

 

§1．Rise of Persia - organization of Persian empire - position of the Greek states - Advance into

        Europe

 

§2．Athens under the tyrants - foreign policy - domestic policy - the opposition - fall of the tyranny -

        its effect on Athens

 

§3．Civil war at Athens - Cleisthenes' reform of the electoral system - the Council of five hundred -

        the Constitution

 

§4．Athens at war with Sparta, Boeotia, Chalcis, and Aegina - the first cleruchies - the beginning of

        Athenians imperialism