Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Documentation and conventions; Acknowledgements; The geography of Euboia and the Eretrias; Prehistory, mythology and cult: the earliest inhabitants of Euboia from the late Neolithic Age to the end of the Mycenaean Age; Old Eretria (Lefkandi) during the Dark Ages and early Iron Age (c. 1050 to c. 750); Eretria from c. 825 to c. 650; Eretria: its history in the wider Greek world during the seventh and early sixth centuries; Eretria: emergent 'great power' of the mid-sixth century; The tyranny of Diagoras (c. 538 509)
Summary
The first detailed history of one of the most prosperous and important Greek cities of the pre-classical period
