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CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE XI. The Land and the People................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................107 XII. Prehistoric Times according to Greek Accounts................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................115 XIII. The Inheritance of the Historic Greeks................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................127 I. Political Institutions................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................127 II. Religious Ideas and Institutions................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................129 III. Language, Mythology, Literature, and Art................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................138 XIV. The Growth of Sparta................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................141 XV. The Age of Greek Colonization (about 750–600 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................152 XVI. The Age of the Tyrants (about 650–500 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................162 XVII. The History of Athens up to the Persian Wars................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................168 XVIII. Hellas Overshadowed by the Rise of Persia: Prelude to the Persian Wars................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................178 XIX. The Persian Wars (500–479 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................183 XX. The Making of the Athenian Empire (479–445 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................200 XXI. The Age of Pericles (445–431 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................210 XXII. The Peloponnesian War (431–404 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................220 I. The War to the Peace of Nicias (431–421 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................220 II. From the Peace of Nicias to the Defeat of the Sicilian Expedition (421–413 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................229 III. From the Sicilian Disaster to the Fall of Athens: the Decelean War (413–404 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................237 XXIII. The Spartan and the Theban Supremacy (404–362 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................244 I. The Spartan Supremacy (404–371 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................244 II. The Ascendancy of Thebes (371–362 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................254 XXIV. The Greeks of Western Hellas (413-336 B.c )................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................259 XXV. The Rise of Macedonia: Reign of Philip II (359–336 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................266 XXVI. .Alexander the Great (336–323 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................273 XXVII. The Greco-Oriental World from the Death of Alexander to the Conquest of Greece by the Romans (323–146 B.C.)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................286 XXVIII. Greek Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................294 I. Architecture................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................295 II. Sculpture................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................300 III. Painting................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................308