ABSTRACT
T he Panathenaic Festival described on page 250 was one of the annual events of ancient Athens, the leading city-state of classical Greece. In this chapter we discuss the rise of the Greek citystates from their beginnings in the eighth century B.C. We also consider the parallel development of city-states in Etruscan Italy and the implantation of Greek and Phoenician colonies around the shores of the Mediterranean. The chapter ends with an account of classical Greece and the Hellenistic world (see Table 9.1 on page 226 and Table 11.1 on page 280).
