Discusses the art and civilization of the times of the ancient rulers of Greece, including the Mycenaean kings, Pericles, Philip of Macedon, and Alexander the Great.
Discusses the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy and other Aegean sites; presents the mythology connected with Agamemnon; and speculates on the decline of the Mycenaean civilization.
A discussion of ancient Greek warfare, covering fortress cities, war on land and at sea, and the history of the Greeks at war, and profiling Alexander the Great.