The work of the greatest German historian J. Beloch “Greek History” still remains the most complete general history of Greece of the Archaic and Classical eras (VIII-IV centuries BC) existing in Russian. In most general courses of ancient Greek history it most often comes down to the history of Athens and Sparta. This work gives the history of Ancient Greece as a whole.

Contents Volume one. Ending with the Sophistic Movement and the Peloponnesian War.

Introduction. Tradition. Settlement of the Aegean coast. Culture of ancient Greece. Myth and religion. Folk epic. Traditional history of Greek antiquity. The spread of the Greeks along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Revolution in economic life. Mental development from Homer to the Persian Wars. The beginning of the unification movement. The dominance of the aristocracy and its fall. Wars of liberation. Economic prosperity after the Persian Wars. Democracy. Period of political equilibrium. Peloponnesian War. The rise of poetry and art. The foundation of science.