- List of Plates*
- Preface to First Edition (1980)
- Preface to Second Edition (1993)
- I. Myth, History and Archeology
- II. Sources
- III. The End of the Dark Age: The Aristocracy
- IV. The End of the Dark Age: The Community
- V. Euboean Society and Trade
- VI. The Orientalizing Period
- VII. Colonization
- VIII. Warfare and New Morality
- IX. Tyranny
- X. Sparta and the Hoplite State
- XI. Athens and Social Justice
- XII. Life Styles: The Aristocracy
- XIII. Life Styles: The Economy
- XIV. The Coming of the Persians
- XV. The Leadership of Greece: Sparta and Athens
- XVI. The Great Persian War
- Maps
- Date Chart
- Primary Sources
- Further Reading
- General Index
- * Plates
- 1. Trade and warfare
- a. The site of Pithecusae (Ischia)
- b. Bronze armour from the Warrior Grave at Argos
- c. Corinthian helmet of Miltiades
- 2. Commemorative pottery
- a. Panathenaic prize vase
- b. Geometric funerary vase from Athens
- 3. Miniature sculpture
- a. Ivory Astarte figure from Athens
- b. Images of Sparta: the warrior
- c. Images of Sparta: the woman
- 4. Rituals
- a. The sacrifice
- b. The symposion
- 5. Writing and the law
- a. Constitutional law from Chios
- b. Attempts to ostracize Themistokles
- 6. The international aristocracy
- a. Arkesilas of Cyrene supervising trade
- b. Miltiades kalos
- 7. Monumental sculpture
- a. Korē by Antenor
- b. King Darius in audience, Persepolis Treasury
- 8. The wealth of the west
- a. Victory coin of Syracuse, 479 BC
- b. Temple of Athena, Paestum
- 1. Trade and warfare
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