Table of Contents

List of maps; List of text-figures; List of chronological tables; Preface; Part I. The Persian Empire: 1. The early history of the Medes and the Persians and the Achaemenid empire to the death of Cambyses T. Cuyler Young Jr.; 2. The consolidation of the empire and its limits of growth under Darius and Xerxes T. Cuyler Young Jr.; 3. The major regions of the empire Amélie Kuhrt, I. Eph'al, Henri-Paul Francfort, A. D. H. Bivar, M. Mellink, A. Fol, N. G. L. Hammond and J. D. Ray; Part II. The Greek States: 4. The tyranny of the Pisistratidae D. M. Lewis; 5. The reform of the Athenian state by Cleisthenes Martin Ostwald; 6. Greece before the Persian invasion L. H. Jeffery; 7. Archaic Greek society J. K. Davies, G. S. Kirk, John Boardman, Colin Kraay, C. Roebuck, Oswyn Murray, N. G. L. Hammond and J. P. Barron; Part III. The West: 12. Italy from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age David Ridgway; 13. The Etruscans David Ridgway; 14. The Iron Age: the peoples of Italy Edward Togo Salmon; 15. The languages of Italy J. H. W. Penney; 16. Carthaginians and Greeks David Asheri; Bibliography; Index.