# Greek Civilization

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Category: History
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Updated: 2026-05-15T22:18:16.755Z
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## Summary

In a strip of broken coastline and stony islands, between roughly 800 and 300 BCE, a constellation of small cities produced the philosophical, political, and aesthetic categories that the rest of the West has been arguing about ever since. Key sections include: Hellas.; Opening The Greek miracle.; Chapter I The Bronze Age palaces.; Chapter II Homer.; Chapter III The polis.; Chapter IV Solon and the seisachtheia.; Chapter V Cleisthenes invents democracy.; Chapter VI Sparta.; Chapter VII The Persian Wars: Marathon.; Chapter VIII Thermopylae and Salamis..

## Slide Outline

1. Hellas.
2. Opening The Greek miracle.
3. Chapter I The Bronze Age palaces.
4. Chapter II Homer.
5. Chapter III The polis.
6. Chapter IV Solon and the seisachtheia.
7. Chapter V Cleisthenes invents democracy.
8. Chapter VI Sparta.
9. Chapter VII The Persian Wars: Marathon.
10. Chapter VIII Thermopylae and Salamis.
11. Chapter IX The Age of Pericles.
12. Chapter X The tragedians.
13. Chapter XI The first historians.
14. Chapter XII Socrates.
15. Chapter XIII Plato.
16. Chapter XIV Aristotle.
17. Chapter XV The Peloponnesian War.
18. Chapter XVI The fourth-century crisis.
19. Chapter XVII Alexander.
20. Chapter XVIII The Hellenistic world.
21. Chapter XIX Bronzes and marbles.
22. Chapter XX The Olympians.
23. Chapter XXI Hellenistic philosophy.
24. Chapter XXII The trireme.
25. Chapter XXIII The other Greeks.
26. Chapter XXIV Hippocrates and Galen.
27. Chapter XXV Rome arrives.
28. Chapter XXVI The transmission.
29. Chapter XXVII Twenty-five essentials.
30. Chapter XXVIII Watch & read.
31. The end of the deck.

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