I.--TROY AND THE FIRST DISCOVERIES II.--MYCENAE AND TIRYNS III.--LIFE IN THE HOMERIC AGE IV.--THE GREEK MIGRATIONS THE GREEKS I.--THE LAND OF GREECE II.--GREEK RELIGION AND THE ORACLES {x} III.--THE OLYMPIC GAMES IV.--THE GREEK CITY-STATE V.--SPARTA I.--THE GOVERNMENT OF SPARTA: LAWS OF LYCURGUS II.--CUSTOMS IN SPARTA III.--SPARTAN EDUCATION VI.--THE GROWTH OF ATHENS I.--EARLIEST ATHENS II.--THE RULE OF THE FEW: THE OLIGARCHY III.--SOLON, THE WISE MAN OF ATHENS AND THE RULE OF THE MANY IV.--THE TYRANTS VII.--GREEK COLONIES I.--THE FOUNDING OF A COLONY II.--IONIA AND LYDIA VIII.--THE BEGINNING OF THE PERSIAN WARS I.--DARIUS AND THE IONIAN REVOLT II.--MARATHON IX.--THE GREAT PERSIAN INVASION UNDER XERXES {xi} I.--THE PREPARATIONS: (a) THE PERSIANS (b) THE GREEKS II.--THERMOPYLAE III.--THEMISTOCLES IV.--SALAMIS TO THE END X.--THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE I.--THE FORTIFICATIONS OF ATHENS II.--THE CONFEDERACY OF DELOS III.--THE ATHENIAN EMPIRE UNDER PERICLES XI.--LIFE IN ANCIENT ATHENS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES I.--A WALK IN ANCIENT ATHENS II.--ATHENIAN DRESS III.--THE ATHENIAN HOUSE IV.--ATHENIAN TRADE V.--ATHENIAN POTTERY XII.--A DAY WITH AN ATHENIAN I.--THE ATHENIAN GENTLEMAN II.--THE ATHENIAN LADY XIII.--THE ATHENIAN SCHOOLBOY XIV.--THE GREEK THEATRE {xii} XV.--THE TEMPLES OF ATHENS I.--GREEK TEMPLES II.--THE ACROPOLIS IN THE TIME OF PERICLES III.--LATER HISTORY OF THE ACROPOLIS XVI.--THE DOWNFALL OF ATHENS I.--RIVALRY BETWEEN ATHENS AND SPARTA AND THE BEGINNING OF THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR II.--ATHENS DURING THE WAR III.--ALCIBIADES IV.--THE DOWNFALL OF ATHENS AND THE SUPREMACY OF SPARTA V.--THE MARCH OF THE TEN THOUSAND XVII.--THE GREAT DAYS OF THEBES I.--LEGENDS AND EARLY HISTORY OF THEBES II.--EPAMINONDAS XVIII.--ALEXANDER THE GREAT I.--PHILIP OF MACEDON II.--DEMOSTHENES III.--ALEXANDER THE GREAT {xiii} XIX.--THE GIFTS OF GREECE TO THE WORLD I.--THE GREEK SPIRIT II.--SOCRATES III.--GREEK LITERATURE: THE PHILOSOPHERS IV.--GREEK LITERATURE: THE HISTORIANS V.--GREEK LITERATURE: THE DRAMATISTS VI.--GREEK ART XX.--THE HELLENISTIC AGE I.--THE EXTENT OF GREEK INFLUENCE II.--ALEXANDRIA III.--SCIENCE IN THE HELLENISTIC AGE IV.--THE END OF GREEK INDEPENDENCE AND THE POWER FROM THE WEST SUGGESTIONS ABOUT BOOKS FOR FURTHER READING INDEX {xv} ILLUSTRATIONS Hermes of Praxiteles . . . Frontispiece Outline Map of Greece and Coasts of the Aegean Sea [missing from source book] Snake Goddess and Cupbearer The Birth of Aphrodite Discobolus of Myron A Girl Racer The Temple of Poseidon at Paestum Pericles Athens with the Acropolis Greek Vases The Flute Lesson, and the Writing Lesson The Lyre Lesson, and the Poetry Lesson Music School Scenes {xvi} The Theatre at Epidaurus The Parthenon Alexander the Great Sophocles Chronological Chart