Victor Parker is Associate Professor of Classics in the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. He has published some fifty specialized articles in Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history as well as a commentary on the historian Ephorus.

• List of Figures ixList of Tables xiiList of Boxes xiiiAbbreviations and Reference Conventions xviPreface xxiiIntroduction xxvii1 The Geography of Greece 1Part I: Bronze and “Dark Age”: circa 1300–800 BC 212 The Mycenaean Age 233 The End of the Bronze Age and the Great Migrations 464 Greece in the Later “Dark Age” (circa 900–750 BC) 58Part II: The Archaic Period: circa 800–479 BC 735 Colonization 756 Sparta from the Messenian Wars to the Creation of the Peloponnesian League 937 Tyranny 1068 Athens from Cylon to Cleisthenes 1219 Persia and the Ionian Revolt 13810 The Persian Wars 151Part III: The Classical Period: 479–323 BC 16911 The Athenian Empire 17112 Sparta and Athens during the Pentecontaetia 18213 From the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War to the Peace of Nicias 19614 From the Peace of Nicias to the Surrender of Athens 21015 The Lacedaemonian Ascendancy in Greece 22716 The Boeotian Ascendancy in Greece and the Second Athenian League 24317 The West from the Sicilian Expedition to the Campaigns of Timoleon 25718 Philip of Macedon and the Conquest of Greece 27219 Alexander the Great and the Conquest of Persia 293Part IV: The Hellenistic Period: 323–30 BC 31720 The Wars of the Diadochi 31921 The Creation of the Hellenistic States 33622 Sicily and the West from Agathocles to the First Punic War 35123 The Hellenistic World in Equilibrium 36424 The Coming of Rome 38725 Twilight of the Hellenistic World 409Tables of Rulers 429Glossary 434Index 458

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