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xxi, 410 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Routledge history of the ancient world |
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Routledge history of the ancient world.
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| Contents |
Contents note continued: Generals and demagogues: fourth-century changes -- Introduction. An important war? -- Resources and intended strategy -- The Archidamian War -- The Peace of Nikias; Mantineia campaign; Melos; Persia and Amorges -- Athens and the west, especially 415-413 -- 413-411; the oligarchic revolution at Athens -- 411 to Aigospotamoi and the Athenian surrender -- Stasis and other upheavals; system building and treatise writing; professionalism -- Military theory and practice -- Political developments -- Economic changes -- Religion: change, and the absence of it -- Introduction and summary -- Athens in defeat: the Thirty Tyrants -- The true cause of the Corinthian War: Spartan expansionism to all four points of the compass -- The Corinthian War -- The King's Peace -- After the King's Peace -- The Second Athenian Confederacy -- Jason of Pherai -- The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (1): the Peloponnese -- |
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Contents note continued: The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (2): the north -- The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (3): the Aegean -- The run-up to the battle of Mantineia: the revolt of the satraps -- Introduction; Persia and Syracuse in mid-century -- Athens and the Social War -- Sparta in mid-century -- The Third Sacred War -- Philip's early years -- Up to the Peace of Philokrates (346) -- The Peace of Philokrates -- The breakdown of the peace, the battle of Chaironeia and the settlement of Greece -- The accession -- The Theban revolt; Alexander and the Greeks -- The invasion of Asia Minor -- Egypt; the city foundations -- The visit to the Ammon oracle; deification -- Gaugamela; Alexander and the Persians -- The passage through Afghanistan; worsening relations between Alexander and the Macedonians -- India; the end -- Conclusion |
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Machine generated contents note: The extent of the Greek world in 479 -- The plan of this book -- The sources -- The Athenians take the lead -- Terms of enrolment -- Mechanisms of control -- Early years -- The 'Ephialtic' reforms at Athens -- The 'First Peloponnesian War' -- The islands -- 'Big Greece': south Italy and Sicily as a unit -- The problem of the sources: Thucydides not enough -- Sicily -- South Italy -- Conclusion: a distinctive culture? -- Kyrene -- Egypt -- Introduction -- Satraps -- Asia Minor under the Persians -- Conclusion -- Introduction: the physical setting and the sources -- Argos and 'kinship diplomacy' -- Argos in the fifth century BC -- Argos in the fourth century BC -- Macedon -- Thessaly -- Boiotia -- The problem: can we trust Thucydides? The Great Gap -- The four stated aitiai -- Introduction: Athens' natural advantages -- The Athenian myths of identity -- Demes and city -- Council, Assembly, law courts -- Elite values and democratic ideology -- |
| Summary |
The Greek World 479-323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication nearly thirty years ago. Now Simon Hornblower has comprehensively revised and partly rewritten his original text, bringing it up-to-date for yet another generation of readers. In particular, this fourth edition takes full account of recent and detailed scholarship on Greek poleis across the Hellenic world, allowing for further development of the key theme of regional variety across the Mediterranean and beyond. Other extensive changes include a new sub-chapter on Islands, a completely updated bibliography, and revised citation of epigraphic material relating to the fourth-century BC. With valuable coverage of the broader Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished, as well as close examination of Athens, Sparta, and the other great city-states of Greece itself, this fourth edition of a classic work is a more essential read than ever before |
| Notes |
"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Greece -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057073 -- Athenian supremacy, 479 B.C.-431 B.C
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Greece -- History -- Athenian supremacy, 479-431 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057082
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Greece -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057073 -- Macedonian Expansion, 359 B.C.-323 B.C
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Greece -- History -- Peloponnesian War, 431-404 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057083
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Greece -- History http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057073 -- Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404 B.C.-362 B.C
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Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057087
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Greece -- History -- Spartan and Theban Supremacies, 404-362 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057084
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| LC no. |
2010033052 |
| ISBN |
9780415602914 (hardback) |
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9780415602921 (paperback) |
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