The History of Ancient Greece: A military and political account of the ancient Greeks including the Persian Wars, the Battle of Marathon and the ... Alexander the Great and his conquest of Asia

From the legends of the Trojan War to the world conquests of Alexander the Great, Greece is the bedrock of Western civilization.Above all, the Greeks were pioneers in political thought and creators of the world’s first democracies.The first half of this fascinating military and political history details how the Greeks recovered from the collapse of the first Minoan, Cretan and Mycenaean civilization.It highlights the Persian Wars, and shows Athens during its brilliant Golden Age, before it was wrecked by the long wars with Sparta.It describes the men and women who have made Greece’s name resonate down the ages: Solon, the great reformer; Pericles, the supreme democrat; and Dionysius, the Sicilian tyrant.The second part of the book opens with the rise of Macedonia under Philip II, father of Alexander the Great.Alexander, one of the most heroic and controversial figures in history, was a military genius who transformed the world, and who overthrew the Persian empire and helped spread Gre