The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Part 1 Early Greece: the first Greeks; the Minoans; Minoan palaces; Minoan religion; invasions and explosions; the Mycenaeans; Mycenaean royal tombs; warriors and traders; Troy and the Trojan war; things fall apart; the Dark Ages. Part 2 Archaic Greece: the Archaic period; the city states; Sparta - a warrior state; Greek armies; Hoplites; Greek warships; the Persian wars; the decline of Persia; the birth of literacy. Part 3 Classical Greece: the golden age of Athens; the acropolis; the first democratic states; life in Sparta; the Peloponnesian wars; the end of an era. Part 4 Everyday life: growing up; women and the home; house; clothes; farming; the marketplace; architecture; building; sculpture; pottery; metalwork; travel by land and sea; feasting and fun; plays and players; the Games; religion and mythology; temples and worship; talking to the gods; death and the underworld; funerals and burials. Part 5 Macedonia and the Hellenistic world: the rise of Macedonia; Alexander the Great; the Hellenistic world; Alexandria; inquiring minds; the Roman conquest. Part 6 Factfinder: gods and goddesses; Greek myths; Greek philosophy; Greek plays; battles and battle formations; who's who; time chart; ancient Greek sites and websites.