Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece Book

	How we know about the Greeks	6
	Map of Ancient Greece	8
	Early Greece
	The first Greeks	10
	The Minoans	12
	Minoan palaces	14
	Minoan religion	16
	Invasions and explosions	18
	The Mycenaeans	20
	Mycenaean royal tombs	22
	Warriors and traders	24
	Troy and the Trojan War	26
	Things fall apart	28
	The Dark Ages	30
	Archaic Greece
	The Archaic Period	32
	The City States	34
	Sparta-a warrior state	36
	Greek armies	38
	Hoplites	40
	Greek warships	42
	The Persian Wars	44
	The decline of Persia	46
	The birth of literacy	48
	Classical Greece
	The golden age of Athens	50
	The acropolis	52
	The first democratic states	54
	Life in Sparta	56
	The Peloponnesian Wars	58
	The end of an era	60
	Everyday Life
	Growing up	62
	Women and the home	64
	Houses	66
	Clothes	68
	Farming	70
	The marketplace	72
	Architecture	74
	Building	76
	Sculpture	78
	Pottery	80
	Metalwork	82
	Travel by land and sea	84
	Feasting and fun	86
	Plays and players	88
	The Games	90
	Religion and mythology	92
	Temples and worship	94
	Talking to the gods	96
	Death and the Underworld	98
	Funerals and burials	100
	Macedonia and the Hellenistic World
	The rise of Macedonia	102
	Alexander the Great	104
	The Hellenistic World	106
	Alexandria	108
	Inquiring minds	110
	The Roman conquest	112
	Factfinder
	Gods and goddesses	114
	Greek myths	116
	Greek philosophy	119
	Greek plays	120
	Battles and battle formations	122
	Who's who	124
	Time chart	128
	Ancient Greek sites and websites	132
	Glossary	134
	Index and acknowledgments	138