Description:The polis: the Greek city-state -- Colonisation -- Religion in the Greek world -- Women, sexuality, and the family -- Labour: slaves, serfs and citizens -- Sparta -- Tyrants and tyranny -- The law-givers: Drakon and Solon -- Peisistratos and his sons -- Kleisthenes the reformer -- The Persian Wars -- The Delian League and the Pentekontaetia -- The Peloponnesian War and its aftermath -- The rise of Macedon -- Alexander "the Great" of Macedon, 336-323 BC -- The ancient sources.