Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History covers years which include the rise of Macedon and the campaigns of Alexander the Great.

Two series of narrative chapters, one on the growth of the Athenian Empire and the development of the Athenian Empire and the development of Athenian democracy, the other on the Peloponnesian War which brought them down, are divided by a series of studies in which the artistic and literary achievements of the fifth century are described.