Sarah B. Pomeroy is Distinguished Professor of Classics and History Emerita at Hunter College and The City University of New York Graduate Center. Stanley M. Burstein is Professor of History Emeritus at California State University, Los Angeles. Jennifer Tolbert Roberts is Professor of Classics and History at City College and The City University of New York Graduate Center. David W. Tandy is Professor of Classics Emeritus at University of Leeds. Georgia Tsouvala is Professor of History at Illinois State University.

The scholarship is topnotch and can be trusted. It has been a standard book for courses on ancient Greece for decades and has every prospect of remaining in that position."

• Translations Used by PermissionPrefaceAbout the AuthorsTimelineIntroduction1. Early Greece and the Bronze Age2. The Early Iron Age (c. 1200-750/700 BC)3. Archaic Greece (750/700-480 BC)4. Sparta5. The Growth of Athens and the Persian Wars6. The Rivalries of the Greek City-States and the Growth of Democracy 7. Greek Life and Culture in the Fifth Century8. The Peloponnesian War9. The Fourth Century BC: Changing Ideas, Continuing Warfare10. Philip II and Macedonian Supremacy 11. Alexander the Great12. The New World of the Hellenistic Period13. A Greco-Roman WorldGlossaryArt and Illustration CreditsIndexColor Plates