A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives

The political leaders, writers, artists, and philosophers of ancient Greece turned a small group of city-states into a pan-Mediterranean civilisation, whose legacy can be found everywhere today. But who were these people, what do we know of their lives, and how did they interact with one another?

In this original new approach to telling the Greek story, David Stuttard weaves together the lives of fifty movers and shakers of the Greek world into a continuous, chronologically organised narrative. From the early tyrant rulers Peisistratus and Polycrates, through the stirrings of democracy under Cleisthenes, to the rise of Macedon under Philip II and Alexander the Great, and the eventual decline of the Greek world as Rome rose.

A History of Ancient Greece in 50 Lives is richly illustrated with 29 images, 25 of which are in colour, providing visual insight into the ancient world.