The Penguin Historical Atlas of Ancient Greece

“The history and culture of Greece were deeply influenced in all phases by the other civilizations of the eastern Mediterranean and Western Asia. Greece eventually came to dominate them politically and culturally. The perspective on the Greek world presented here tries to place Greek history within that broader context.” Accordingly, the timespan covered in this historical atlas extends far beyond the relatively short period of Athenian democracy and its struggle for political independence against the might of Imperial Persia in the fifth century bc. Based on archaeological discoveries, and the richly documented history of Greece in the Classical and Hellenistic...