- Two important new chapters have been added, covering life and culture in the classical Greek world
- Features new pedagogical tools, including textboxes, and a comprehensive chronological table of the West, mainland Greece, and the Aegean
- Enlarged and additional maps and illustrative material
- Covers the history of an important period, including: the flourishing of democracy in Athens; the Peloponnesian war, and the conquests of Alexander the Great
- Focuses on the evidence for the period, and how the evidence is to be interpreted