List of maps

List of text-figures

List of chronological tables

Preface

Part I. The Persian Empire: 1. The early history of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid empire to the death of Cambyses T. Cuyler Young Jr.

2. The consolidation of the empire and its limits of growth under Darius and Xerxes T. Cuyler Young Jr.

3. The major regions of the empire Amé

lie Kuhrt, I. Eph'al, Henri-Paul Francfort, A. D. H. Bivar, M. Mellink, A. Fol, N. G. L. Hammond and J. D. Ray

Part II. The Greek States: 4. The tyranny of the Pisistratidae D. M. Lewis

5. The reform of the Athenian state by Cleisthenes Martin Ostwald

6. Greece before the Persian invasion L. H. Jeffery

7. Archaic Greek society J. K. Davies, G. S. Kirk, John Boardman, Colin Kraay, C. Roebuck, Oswyn Murray, N. G. L. Hammond and J. P. Barron

Part III. The West: 12. Italy from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age David Ridgway

13. The Etruscans David Ridgway

14. The Iron Age: the peoples of Italy Edward Togo Salmon

15. The languages of Italy J. H. W. Penney

16. Carthaginians and Greeks David Asheri

Bibliography

Index.