The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C., such as Cyrene, Egypt, Sparta and other great city-states.

The Greek World 479-323BC

by Simon Hornblower

Published 17 November 1983
The main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and the fourth centuries BC, such as Cyrene, Egypt, Asia Minor, Macedon, Italy and Sicily, as well as Athens, Sparta, and other great city-states of Greece proper, an in so doing the author draws fully on new archaeological and epigraphical evidence.