Aspects of Greek History 750-323BC

Terry Buckley has recently retired from full-time teaching, having held the post of Head of Classics at Camden School for Girls and Roedean. He has also been for many years a member of the JACT Ancient History Committee.

• 1. The Main Literary Sources  2. The Causes of Colonization in Archaic Greece  3. The Age of Greek Tyranny, c650–510  4. The 'Lycurgan' Reforms and The Rise of Sparta in the 7th and 6th Centuries  5. The Reforms of Solon  6. The Tyranny of the Peisistratids at Athens  7. The Reforms of Cleisthenes and the Development of Athenian Democracy  8. Athenian Politics from Cleisthenes to the Outbreak of the Persian War  9. The Persian War: Greek Strategy and the Leadership of Sparta in 480–479  10. The Delian League and Athenian Empire 11. Athenian Politics, 487-462/1 12. Spartan Foreign Policy and Problems in the Peloponnese, 478–446/5  13. The Democratic Reforms of Ephialtes and Pericles, 462/1–451/0  14. The Institutions of Athenian Democracy  15. Athenian Foreign Policy in the First Peloponnesian War, 462/1–446/5  16. The Athenian Empire: Means of Control, Benefits and Popularity  17. The Causes of the Peloponnesian War  18. Pericles and the Nature of Athenian Politics  19. Athenian and Spartan Strategy in the Archidamian War, 431–421  20. Sparta, The Peloponnese and the Outbreak of the Decelean War, 421-413 21. Athens and the West, 458–413  22. Persian Intervention in the Ionian War, 413–404  23. The Rise and Fall of the Oligarchic Movement in Athens, 411–410  24. Spartan Foreign Policy, 404–387/6  25. The 'Hegemony' of Thebes, 371–362  26. The Rise of Macedon (359–336): Diplomacy and Warfare under Philip II  27. Alexander's Generalship at the Battles of Granicus River (334), Issus (333), and Gaugamela (331)