A History of Greece, ca. 1300 30 B.C. , offers a comprehensive introduction to the foundational political history of Greece, from the late Mycenaean Age through to the death of Cleopatra VII, the last Hellenistic monarch of Egypt. List of illustrations List of maps List of Boxes List of Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgements Introduction 1.  The Geography of Greece Part I: Bronze and “Dark” Age: ca. 1300-800 B.C. 2.  The Mycenaean Age 3.  The End of the Bronze Age and the Great Migrations 4.  Greece in the Later “Dark Age” Part II: The Archaic Period: ca. 800-479 B.C 5.  Colonization 6.  Sparta from the Messenian Wars to the Creation of the Peloponnesian League 7.  Tyranny 8.  Athens from Cylon to Cleisthenes 9.  Persia and the Ionian Revolt 10.  The Persian Wars Part III: The Classical Period: 479-323 B.C 11.  The Athenian Empire 12.  Sparta and Athens during the Pentecontaetia 13.  From the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War to the Peace of Nicias 14.  From the Peace of Nicias to the Surrender of Athens 15.  The Lacedaemonian Ascendancy in Greece 16.  The Boeotian Ascendancy in Greece and the Second Athenian League 17.  The West from the Sicilian Expedition to the Campaigns of Timoleon 18.  Philip of Macedon and the Conquest of Greece 19.  Alexander the Great Part IV: The Hellenistic Period: 323-30 B.C 20.  The Wars of the Diadochi 21.  The Creation of the Hellenistic States 22.  Sicily and the West from Agathocles to the First Punic War 23.  The Hellenistic World in Equilibrium 24.  The Coming of Rome 25.  Twilight of the Hellenistic World Tables of Rulers Glossary Index