Table of Contents
Introduction 9
Part I Beginnings 13
Minoan Crete 15
Mycenaen Greece 18
Homeric Greece 21
The Greek Dark Ages 24
Part II Polis 27
Evolution of the City-state 750-600 BCE 29
Tyrants 32
The Greek Alphabet 35
Olympians 38
The Oracle of Delphi 44
Kouroi and Korai - the Human Form 47
Magna Graecia 49
The Olympic Games 52
Lyric Poetry of Lesbos 54
The Emergence of Democracy 57
The Athenian Brand 60
The World on a Vase 62
Healers 65
Sparta 68
The Persian Wars 70
Hoplites 73
Triremes 75
Athens Under Pericles 77
The Parthenon 80
Greek Architectural Orders 83
The Peloponnesian War 86
Gymnasia 90
Greek Theatre 92
Greek Philosophy 96
The Rise of Macedonia 100
Vergina 104
Alexander the Great 106
Part III Translations 109
Hellenistic Greece 111
The Seleucids 114
Ptolemaic Egypt 117
Pergamon 120
Indo-Greek Kingdoms 123
Hellenistic Art 126
Seven Wonders of the World 129
Part IV Republic 137
The Etruscans 137
Rome: From Village to City 140
Birth of the Republic 144
The Senate and Roman Law 146
Life in Republican Rome 149
Roman Dress 152
Propitiating the Gods 156
Roman Expansion 159
The Punic Wars 162
Rome's Mediterranean Empire 167
Roman Lettering 170
The Rise of Julius Caesar 173
Civil War 176
Part V Imperium 181
Augustus and the Rise of Imperial Rome 183
City of Marble 186
Bread and Circuses 189
Roman Provincial Life 193
Trier 197
Water Management 200
The Roman Villa 203
Roman Roads 206
Roman Glassware 209
The Julio-Claudian Dynasty 212
Conquest and Consolidation 216
The Roman Army 220
The Roman Fort 224
Women in the Roman Empire 227
Roman Baths 230
A Roman Childhood 233
Roman Dining 236
Pompeii: Frozen in Time 240
Shades of the Departed 243
Roman Trade 246
Triumph 249
Life on the Frontier 252
Rome in the East 256
Roman Portraiture 259
The Troubled Century 262
Mystery Cults 266
The Mosaics of North Africa 269
A Christian Empire 271
City of Constantine 274
Divided Empire 277
The Fall of Rome 280
Ravenna: The New Capital 284
The Inheritors 287
The Classical Legacy 290
Further Reading 295
Index 294
Picture Credits 304