The volume continues late Greek history by analyzing the Peace of Antalkidas as a Persian-mediated settlement that curtailed Greek autonomy and revealed Sparta’s readiness to solicit and enforce foreign authority. It traces the political consequences across several city-states, the suppression of pan-Hellenic institutions, and a recurring pattern of reliance on external support. Attention then shifts to the distinct stream of Sicilian and Italian Greek affairs, developing the careers of a leading Sicilian ruler, his successor, and a later reformer who had philosophical connections, and closes partway through that ruler’s reign with further chapters reserved for the next volume.