Table of Contents

1. The Traditions of History 2. Setting the Stage 3. The Problem of Beginnings 4. Forming Communities: The Eighth Century BC 5. The World of Hesiod and of Homer 6. Reforming Communities: The Seventh Century BC 7. The Greek World in 600BC 8. Inter-Relating Cities: The Short Sixth Century (600–520 BC) 9. The Transformation of Archaic Greece 520–479 BC

About the Author

Robin Osborne

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'The present second edition...is perhaps the most up-dated and the most systematic of all such syntheses currently available in English.' - Palamedes