Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 482. Not illustrated. Chapters: Achaemenid Military Leaders, Battles Involving the Achaemenid Empire, Greco-Persian Wars, Military Units and Formations of the Achaemenid Empire, Treaties of the Achaemenid Empire, Battle of Marathon, Battle of Salamis, Xenophon, Battle of Cunaxa, Battle of Thermopylae, Peace of Antalcidas, Ionian Revolt, Rise of Macedon, Second Persian Invasion of Greece, Wars of the Delian League, Battle of Plataea, Wars of Alexander the Great, Battle of Artemisium, First Persian Invasion of Greece, Battle of Mycale, Battle of the Eurymedon, Battle of Lade, Siege of Naxos, Battle of Gaugamela, Siege of Eretria, Comparison of Greek Naval and Land Tactics in the 5th Century Bc, Battle of Hyrba, Battle of Opis, Battle of Issus, Battle of the Persian Gate, Battle of the Persian Border, Anabasis, Battle of Thymbra, Harpagus, Immortals, Ariaeus, Decree of Themistocles, Battle of Pelusium, Telesarchus of Samos, Ten Thousand, Battle of Pteria, Peace of Callias, Siege of Halicarnassus, Persian Revolt, Mazares, Siege of Gaza, Sestos, Datis, Sparabara, Abaeus, Siege of Sardis, Takabara, Congress at the Isthmus of Corinth, Zopyrus, Medism, Megabates, Megabazus, Mithrenes, Artaphernes, Patigrabana, Artapanus, Batis, Ferendatis, Battle of Ephesus, Siege of Citium, Scythian Campaign. Excerpt: The rise of Macedon, from a small kingdom at the periphery of Classical Greek affairs, to one which came to dominate the entire Hellenic world (and beyond), occurred in the space of just 25 years, between 359336 BC. This ascendancy is largely attributable to the personality and policies of Philip II. Intact and relatively detailed histories of Greece cover the period ca. 500362 BC, in the form of Herodotus's The Histories, Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War, and Xenophon's Hellenica. However, no extant history specifically cove...