Grant Michael. The Classical Greeks

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989. — xiv + 337 p. — (History of Civilization). — ISBN: 0-684-19126-1.This book deals with the period of Greek history and civihzation extending between the external wars of the early fifth century BC, against Persia and Carthage, and the accession of Alexander the Great in 336.Wars against External Enemies.
Miltiades: Victor at Marathon.
Themistocles: Victor at Salamis.
Pausanias: Victor at Plataea.
Gelon and Hiero I: Victors at Himera and Cumae.
Between the Wars: First Phase.
Cimon: Creator of Empire.
Pindar: The Old Values.
Aeschylus: Gods and Human Beings.
Parmenides: And Three Reactions.
The Olympia Master: Early Classical Temple Sculpture.
Polygnotus: The Painting Revolution.
The Periclean Age.
Pericles: Imperial Democracy.
Protagoras: Unsettling Sophists.
Herodotus: The New Art of History.
To the Riace Master and Polyclitus: The Male Nude.
Ictinus and Phidias: The Parthenon.
The Peloponnesian War.
Hermocrates: Saviour of the Western Greeks.
Sophocles: Harrowed Heroes and Heroines.
Euripides: Dramatic Challenger.
Aristophanes: Comedy of Protest.
Hippocrates: Scientific Physician.
Socrates: Ironical Questioner.
Zeuxis and Parrhasius: A New Look at Art.
Thucydides: Historian of the War.
Lysander: Conqueror of Athens.
First Half of the Fourth Century: West and East.
Dionysius I: Empire Builder.
Archytas: Philosophical Ruler.
Leucon I: The Grain Route.
Mausolus and Pythius: The Mausoleum.
First Half of the Fourth Century: The Greek Mainland.
Epaminondas: The End of the Political Road.
Xenophon: Literary Land-owner.
Plato: Eternal Reality.
Isocrates: Panhellenic Educationalist.
Praxiteles: The Humanizing of Sculpture.
The End of Classical Greece.
Timoleon: Sicily at its Best.
Philip II: The City-State Supplanted.
Demosthenes: Orator Resisting the Future.
Aristotle: The Frontiers of Classical Knowledge.
Epilogue.
Appendices.
Pythagoras and his Followers.
Women.
Metics.
Between Free Men and Slaves.
Slaves.