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From the palaces of Crete to the rise of Macedon: a thousand years of Greek cities, wars and ideas, and what the evidence shows behind the famous stories, told by Sophia with Philo, Marcos and Demetria, with grammar at every level and a gamebook for each part.
Volume II of the History of the Ancient World. The same rules as every volume: what scholars agree on, what they debate and what nobody knows, and the uncomfortable parts too, such as slavery and the helots. A companion to the Ancient Historians and Greek Drama.
The Bronze Age civilisations of Crete and the mainland.
Knossos and bull-leapers, the Thera eruption, the gold of Mycenae and the tablets of Pylos.
Colonies, tyrants, Sparta and Athens.
A thousand city-states, colonies from Marseille to the Black Sea, tyrants and the Olympic Games.
The agoge, the helots, Spartan women and the truth about Thermopylae.
Solon, Cleisthenes, ostracism and the lottery, and the many who could not vote.
Greeks against Persians, and Greeks against Greeks.
Marathon, Salamis and Plataea, and the silence of the Persian records.
An alliance becomes an empire: the plague, Mytilene, Melos and Sicily.
The philosophers, and the kingdom that conquered them all.
Questions, the Academy and the Lyceum, and what the great minds got wrong.
From a northern kingdom to India: the founder of our city, seen from every side.