Classical civilization / by Herbert Newell Couch and Russel M. Geer.

Greece -- The physical geography of Greece -- The people of Greece. Their festivals -- The Minoan-Mycenaean culture -- The Homeric poems -- The settlement of Greece -- Social discontent in Athens, 632 BC to 510 BC -- Sculpture in the Archaic age -- The poetry of a transicional society -- The birth of scientific enquiry -- From Cleisthenes to the end of the Persian wars, 510 BC to 479 BC -- Herodotus -- Athens during the early fourth century -- Greek tragedy: Aeschylus -- Sophocles and Euripides -- Architecture: the temple and the theater -- The sculpture of the fifth century -- Greek arts and crafts -- The late fifth century, 431 BC to 404 BC -- Thucydides, Xenophon and Aristophanes -- Transitional philosophy: the sophists and Socrates -- The struggle for leadership in the fourth century. The emergence of Macedon -- The sculpture of the fourth century, 404 BC to 323 BC -- Literature in the fourth century. Oratory and middle comedy -- The humanistic philosophers: Plato and Aristotle -- From Alexander the great to the founding of Constantinople -- Literature under Alexandrian influence -- Hellenistic and Graeco-Roman sculpture -- The close of Greek letters.