Ebook: Aspects of Greek history 750-323 BC: a source-based approach

The main literary sources -- The causes of colonization in archaic Greece -- The age of Greek tyranny, c.650-510 -- The 'Lycurgan' reforms and the rise of Sparta in the seventh and sixth centuries -- The reforms of Solon -- The tyranny of the Peisistratids at Athens -- The reforms of Cleisthenes and the development of Athenian democracy -- Athenian politics from Cleisthenes to the outbreak of the Persian war -- The Persian war: Greek strategy and the leadership of Sparta in 480-479 -- The Delian League and the Athenian empire -- Athenian politics, 478-462/1 -- Spartan foreign policy and problems in the Peloponnese, 478-446/5 -- The democratic reforms of Ephialtes and Pericles, 462/1-451/0 -- The institutions of Athenian democracy -- Athenian foreign policy in the first Peloponnesian war, 462/1-446/5 -- The Athenian empire: means of control, benefits and popularity -- The causes of the Peloponnesian war -- Pericles and the nature of Athenian politics -- Athenian and Spartan strategy in the Archidamian war, 431-421 -- Sparta, the Peloponnese and the outbreak of the Decelean war, 421-413 -- Athens and the west, 458-413 -- Persian intervention in the Ionian War, 413-404 -- The rise and fall of the oligarchic movement in Athens, 411-410 -- Spartan foreign policy, 404-387/6 -- The 'hegemony' of Thebes, 371-362 -- The rise of Macedon (359-336): diplomacy and warfare under Philip II -- Alexander's generalship at the battles of the river Granicus (334), Issus (333) and Gaugamela (331).;Offers an introduction to the central period of Greek History for students of classics. This title constructs the relevant historical periods from the age of colonization to Alexander the Great.