Fourth century BC

For the fourth century BC, a grandiose expansion of the Greek world came. This volume (Volume VI) begins with a story about Spartan attempts to strengthen his leadership in mainland Hellas, and ends with the death of Alexander the Great, which came after he won the Persian state and reached India. In the coverage of political and economic issues, this volume covers, respectively, a very wide geographical range, not limited to ancient Greece alone, but also exploring the countries of the Middle East and the Western Mediterranean. Persia, returning to the Greek scene in 413 BC. e., invariably remains a significant part of the story. A new series of reviews of non -Greek regions, both inside the Persian state and abroad, continues similar reviews of Comrade IV KIDM. Such stories in the chapters of Sicily, Carthage and Italy are a reminder that events of paramount importance took place not only in the Eastern Mediterranean. The fourth century BC has also seen the continuation of the development of classical Hellenic art and the transformation of Greek prose into an incredibly elastic means of expression. The formation of great philosophical schools for a long time guaranteed Athens - at the time of their political decline - the role of the cultural center, and the ways of thinking developed here dominated Western civilization for two thousand years.