Table of Contents

Preface
Prelude: Clouds in the West
1: Rome Turns East
2: The Illyrian Wars
3: Barbarians, Go Home!
4: King Philip of Macedon
5: The Freedom of the Greeks
6: The Road to Thermopylae
7: The Periphery Expands
8: Remote Control
9: Perseus' Choice
10: The End of Macedon
11: Imperium Romanum
12: The Greek World after Pydna
Key Dates
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

In addition to having translated numerous Greek classics, including works by Plato, Aristotle, Herodotus, Xenophon, Polybius, and Plutarch, Robin Waterfield is the author of Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths, Xenophon's Retreat: Greece, Persia and the End of the Golden Age, Athens: A History, and Dividing the Spoils: the War for Alexander the Great's Empire. He lives in the far south of Greece on a small olive farm.

Reviews

`The story Waterfield tells is complex, but he tells it well.'
Peter Jones, BBC History
`This sorry story is told with great verve and pace by Waterfield.'
Literary Review