Table of Contents

List of maps; List of text-figures; List of chronological tables; Preface; Part I. The Persian Empire: 1. The early history of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid empire to the death of Cambyses T. Cuyler Young Jr.; 2. The consolidation of the empire and its limits of growth under Darius and Xerxes T. Cuyler Young Jr.; 3. The major regions of the empire Amélie Kuhrt, I. Eph'al, Henri-Paul Francfort, A. D. H. Bivar, M. Mellink, A. Fol, N. G. L. Hammond and J. D. Ray; Part II. The Greek States: 4. The tyranny of the Pisistratidae D. M. Lewis; 5. The reform of the Athenian state by Cleisthenes Martin Ostwald; 6. Greece before the Persian invasion L. H. Jeffery; 7. Archaic Greek society J. K. Davies, G. S. Kirk, John Boardman, Colin Kraay, C. Roebuck, Oswyn Murray, N. G. L. Hammond and J. P. Barron; Part III. The West: 12. Italy from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age David Ridgway; 13. The Etruscans David Ridgway; 14. The Iron Age: the peoples of Italy Edward Togo Salmon; 15. The languages of Italy J. H. W. Penney; 16. Carthaginians and Greeks David Asheri; Bibliography; Index.

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This volume covers c.525 to 479 BC, a period which saw events and developments of major significance in the Mediterranean world.

Reviews

"CAH IV fulfills its function: it sets forth the state of the questions, clarifies controversies, suggests new approaches. It will be found useful by graduate students reviewing for comprehensive examinations and by professors wishing to update lectures in survey courses." Paul MacKendrick, Classical World