The Formation of the Greek People

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Cover Title page Copyright page Table of Contents Foreword (By Henri Berr) lntroduction Part One The Country I. The Land 1. The Formation of the Soil 2. The Mountains of Greece 3. Geographical Divisions and Political Frontiers II. The Water 1. The Climate 2. Streams, above ground and below 3. Vegetation III. The Sea 1. The Coasts and Islands 2. Currents and Winds, IV. The Work of Man 1. The Exploitation of the Subsoil 2. The Improvement of the Soil 3. Agriculture 4. The Exploitation of the Sea 5. Nature and Human Effort Part Two The Peoples I. The Races and Peoples. 1. The Evidence of the Legends2. The Evidence of Language 3. The Evidence of Archæology 4. The Evidence of Anthropology 5. Greek Origins II. The Frontiers of Greece Proper 1. Epeiros, Ætolia, and Acarnania 2. Thessaly III. Central Greece 1. Parnassos and the Delphic Sanctuary 2. Bœotia 3. The Peoples and Cities of Bœotia IV. The Peloponnese 1. The Country and its Inhabitants 2. Corinth 3. The Cities of the Seaboard 4. Arcadia 5. The Uplands and the Plains V. Sparta 1. Sources for the History of Sparta, 2. The Population and Military Strength of Sparta. 3. Economic Life and Social Classes4. Political Institutions and Life in Sparta VI. Athens 1. Sources for the History of Athens 2. The Natural Regions of Attica 3. Different Populations and Ways of Life 4. Evolution towards Democracy 5. Foreign Influences and Atticism Part Three Hellenic Expansion I. Colonization 1. The First Explorers: Greeks and Phœnicians 2. Colony and Mother City 3. From Colony to Colonial Empire II. Asiatic Greece 1. The Greek Cities of Asia 2. Ionia 3. Ionian Civilization 4. The Conquest of Asiatic Greece and its Consequences. III. Greek Expansion in the Eastern Mediterranean1. The Colonies of the Euxine 2. Cyprus and the Semitic World 3. The Greeks in Egypt 4. Cyrenaica IV. Greek Expansion in the Western Mediterranean 1. The Greeks in Italy and Sicily 2. The Civilization of Sicilian and Italian Greece 3. The Far West 4. Greeks, Etruscans, and Carthaginians 5. Consequences of Greek Colonization Part Four Hellenic Unity I. Moral Unity 1. Greek and Barbarian 2. Community of Language 3. Community of Religion 4. Community of Manners II. International Relations 1. International Law. 2. Citizen and Foreigner3. Commercial Law 4. The Laws of War III. National Union 1. The Persian Danger 2. The First Persian War 3. The Second Persian War 4. Athens and Sparta at the End of the Persian Wars 5. The Pan-Hellenic Policy of Pericles IV. The Particularist Spirit 1. The City State and Direct Government 2. The Federal System 3. Political Parties and Foreign Powers V. The Wars of the Cities 1. The Breach between Athens and Sparta 2. The Peloponnesian War 3. The Hegemonies of Sparta and of Thebes 4. The Macedonian Conquest Conclusion Bibliography Index.