Chapters

1. History’s Story
2. Wanderers and Settlers: The Ancient Middle East to 400 B.C.
3. The Chosen People: Hebrews and Jews, 2000 B.C. to A.D. 135
4. Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks, 1200 B.C. to A.D. 146
5. Imperium Romanum: The Romans, 753 B.C. to A.D. 300
6. The Revolutionary Rabbi: Christianity, the Roman Empire, and Islam, 4 B.C. to A.D. 1453
7. From Old Rome to the New West: The Early Middle Ages, A.D. 500 to 1000
8. The Medieval Mêlée: The High and Later Middle Ages, 1000 to 1500
9. Making the Modern World: The Renaissance and Reformation, 1400 to 1648
10. Liberation of Mind and Body: Early Modern Europe, 1543 to 1815
11. Mastery of the Machine: The Industrial Revolution, 1764 to 1914
12. The Westerner’s Burden: Imperialism and Nationalism, 1810 to 1918
13. Rejections of Democracy: The InterWar Years and World War II, 1917 to 1945
14. A World Divided: The Cold War, 1945 to 1993
15. Into the Future: The Contemporary Era, 1991 to the Present

• Epilogue: Why Western Civilization?

Links for Chapter 4
Trial of the Hellenes: The Ancient Greeks

On the Greeks

For the Greeks in general, see: The Ancient Greek World, The Greeks: The Cradle of Civilization.
For sources see The Perseus Project; Attalus; Internet Ancient History Sourcebook;  Internet Classics Archive.

The Ancient City of Athens.

The Democratic Experiment: Brief article on unique aspects of Athenian democracy.

 

On the Persian Wars

Aeschylus’ “The Persians”: richly illustrated short articles explaining the play and its historical origins and context.

Dr. J's Illustrated Persian Wars : page with some pictures.

 

On Hellenism

The House of Ptolemy: lots of information on Hellenistic and later Egypt.

 

On Culture

Ancient Greek Theater: informative page on the basics with links to plays.

The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games: from the Penn State museum site.

Family Tree of Greek Mythology.