Horizon History of Ancient Greece

Here, from award-winning historian William Harlan Hale, is the ever-fascinating story of ancient Greece – from the Bronze-Age cultures of Crete and Mycenae, the rise of the Greek city-states, and the wars with Persia to the golden age of Athens under Pericles, the Hellenistic age after Alexander’s conquests, and, finally, the slow decline to the status as a Roman province.