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• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Maps and Plates
• Acknowledgements
• Plates
• Prologue The Wild and the Tamed: Ancient Views of Civilization
• Part I The Greeks
• 1  The Dawn of Greek Civilization
• 2  The Rise of the Hellenes
• 3  New Things: The First Greek City-States
• 4  As Rich as Croesus: Early Greeks and the East
• 5  Great Greeks: The Greek Settlement of the West
• 6  Meet the (Western) Neighbours
• 7  ‘Lord of All Men’? The Threat of Persia
• 8  The Same but Different: Athens and Sparta
• 9  ‘Unprecedented Suffering’? The Peloponnesian War
• 10  Examined Lives and Golden Mouths
• 11  ‘A Brilliant Flash of Lightning’: Alexander of Macedon
• 12  Game of Thrones, or the World after Alexander
• Part II The Romans
• 13  ‘Senatus Populusque Romanus’
• 14  Boots on the Ground: Building the Roman Empire
• 15  Hail Caesar! The Advent of the Autocrats
• 16  ‘Fierce Rome, Captive’? The Lure of Greece
• 17  What Did the Romans Do for Their Empire?
• 18  ‘Barbarians’ at the Gate
• 19  The ‘Jesus Movement’
• 20  United We Stand: The Final Century
• 21  Divided We Fall: A Tale of Two Empires
• Epilogue
• Timeline
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Index