Includes bibliographical references (pages 441-449) and index.

"A scholarly, comprehensive work that engages the reader and makes history a pleasure, this book covers the whole of Ancient Greece - 3,000 years of art, culture, literature, politics, war, and empire. Until now, histories of Ancient Greece were either accessible to the general reader but out-of-date or current but too daunting for anyone but the specialist." "Using the full range of resources of art history, linguistics, archaeology, and literature, this book details the familiar - mythic heroes; famous scholars, scientists, and warriors; classical architecture - and introduces the obscure - the origins of the Greeks and their culture, including their first written language, Linear B cuneiform. More than a recitation of facts, the book provides an introduction to historical technique: How do historians know what they know; where do they disagree and why?"--Jacket.

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