146 b.c.-323 a.d

Chronicles the military, political, and cultural development of ancient Greece and provides an overview of the rule of Alexander the Great. Includes over five hundred photographs, illustrations, maps, and battle plans.

A study of Greece during the centuries which preceded the Hellenistic age. Describes Minoan Crete; the Mycenaean civilization; and the flowering in culture and political thought which began in the mid-eighth century B.C.; the growth of Athenian democracy; Hellenism; and the Persian Wars; and the end of the age in 323 B.C. with the death of Alexander. Makes liberal use of illustrations, photographs, and maps.

Twenty essays--ten informative and ten interpretive--examine ten pivotal topics in the history of ancient Greece, from the Mycenaeans and epic poetry to Macedonian conquests and Hellenistic empires.

Chronicles the major events and themes of the Hellenistic Age from 336 to 30 BCE, describing the conquests of Philip of Macedonia, Alexander the Great, Cleopatra, and Augustus Caesar, as well as the decline of the city-state and Roman ascension to imperial rule.

In 80 A.D., ten-year-old Roman sleuth Flavia and her friends sail from Corinth to Rhodes to try to stop a mysterious man who is kidnapping children and selling them into slavery.

Presents short biographies of such figures from ancient Greece as poets Homer and Hesiod, philosophers Plato and Aristotle, and leaders Alexander and Cleopatra, and includes a chronology and an annotated further reading list.