Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Maps and Plates vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Prologue: The Wild and the Tamed: Ancient Views of Civilization 1
6. Part I. The Greeks
7. 1. The Dawn of Greek Civilization 15
8. 2. The Rise of the Hellenes 32
9. 3. New Things: The First Greek City- States 45
10. 4. As Rich as Croesus: Early Greeks and the East 60
11. 5. Great Greeks: The Greek Settlement of the West 75
12. 6. Meet the (Western) Neighbours 90
13. 7. ‘Lord of All Men’? The Threat of Persia 105
14. 8. The Same but Different: Athens and Sparta 119
15. 9. ‘Unprecedented Suffering’? The Peloponnesian War 134
16. 10. Examined Lives and Golden Mouths 148
17. 11. ‘A Brilliant Flash of Lightning’: Alexander of Macedon 163
18. 12. Game of Thrones, or the World after Alexander 177
19. Part II. The Romans
20. 13. ‘Senatus Populusque Romanus’ 195
21. 14. Boots on the Ground: Building the Roman Empire 210
22. 15. Hail Caesar! The Advent of the Autocrats 225
23. 16. ‘Fierce Rome, Captive’? The Lure of Greece 241
24. 17. What Did the Romans Do for Their Empire? 257
25. 18. ‘Barbarians’ at the Gate 271
26. 19. The ‘Jesus Movement’ 286
27. 20. United We Stand: The Final Century 301
28. 21. Divided We Fall: A Tale of Two Empires 316
29. Epilogue 330
30. Timeline 334
31. Notes 340
32. Further Reading 354
33. Index 356