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1 online resource |
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Achaemenid Persia and the Greeks across the Sea -- The Traditional Model: Balancing Athens and Sparta -- The Image of Persian World Supremacy -- A New Approach: Ambition and Restraint in Persia's Greek Relations -- Artaxerxes I and the Athenian Peace -- The Peace of Kallias: In Search of a Persian Perspective -- The Costs of Peace: Ionia's Loss and Possible Countermeasures -- The Savings of Peace: Naval Reduction and Economic Gains -- The Profits of Peace: Persia's Athenian Trade -- The Ideology of Peace: Persian Victory and the Athenian Client State -- Adherence to Peace: The Cold War Model and the Samian Revolt -- The Peloponnesian War and the Road to Intervention -- Artaxerxes I and the Peloponnesian War -- Darius II and Athens: From Philia to Enmity -- Sicily, Tribute, and Darius's Intervention -- Agents of Intervention: Darius's New Satraps -- I Negotiating Intervention: The Satraps, Ionia, and Sparta -- Tissaphernes's War and the Treaty of 411 -- The Ionian War and Athenian Resilience -- Victory over Amorges -- Revising the Terms of Alliance -- Quarrel with Sparta and Contacts with Athens -- The Treaty of 411 -- The King's Navy and the Failure of Satrapal Intervention -- Darius's Ships and Tissaphernes's Wages -- The Ionian Garrison Expulsions -- The Royal Fleet's Recall -- The Satraps at the Hellespont -- Pharnabazos's Timbers -- Cyrus the Younger and Spartan Victory -- The Satraps on the Defensive -- Darius and the Embassy of Boiotios -- Cyrus Takes Command -- Cyrus and Spartan Disaster -- Cyrus's and Lysander's Road to Victory -- Persia's Victory: Costs and Benefits -- Artaxerxes II and War with Sparta -- Cyrus and the Second Loss of Ionia -- Tissaphernes and Spartan Invasion -- Naval Escalation and Tissaphernes's Downfall -- Tithraustes's Truce and Pharnabazos's Defense of the North -- Artaxerxes's Fleet and Victory at Knidos -- Persia, the Corinthian War, and the King's Peace -- Timokrates's Mission to Greece -- Pharnabazos's Revenge -- Konon and Persian Aid to Athens -- Tiribazos's Folly and the Peace Talks of 392 -- Strouthas and the Failure of Outreach to Athens -- The King's Peace |
| Summary |
"In this book, Hyland examines the international relations of the First Persian Empire (the Achaemenid Empire) as a case study in ancient imperialism. He focuses in particular on Persian's relations with the Greek city-states and its diplomatic influence over Athens and Sparta. Previous studies have emphasized the ways in which Persia sought to protect its borders by playing the often warring Athens and Sparta off each other, prolonging their conflicts through limited aid and shifts of alliance. Hyland proposes a new model, employing Persian ideological texts and economic documents to contextualize the Greek narrative framework, that demonstrates that Persian Kings were less interested in control of the Ionian region where Greece bordered the empire than in displays of universal power through the acquisition of Athens or Sparta as client states. On the other hand, the establishment of "Pax Persica" beyond the Aegean was delayed by Persian efforts to limit the interventions' expense, and missteps in dealing with fractious Greek allies. This reevaluation of Persia's Greek relations marks an important contribution to scholarship on the Achaemenid empire and Greek history, and has value for the broader study of imperialism in the ancient world."--Provided by publisher |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Achaemenid dynasty, 559 B.C.-330 B.C
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Imperialism -- Case studies
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HISTORY -- Civilization.
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Diplomatic relations
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Imperialism
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Sparta (Extinct city) -- Foreign relations
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Athens (Greece) -- Foreign relations
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Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057074
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Greece
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Greece -- Athens
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Greece -- Sparta (Extinct city)
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Electronic books
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Case studies
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781421423715 |
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1421423715 |
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1421423715 |
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