The Greek World 479û323 BC

by Hornblower; Simon

Edition: 4th

ISBN13: 9780415602921

ISBN10: 0415602920

Format: Nonspecific Binding

Pub. Date: 2011-03-09

Publisher(s): Routledge

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The Greek World 479'323 BC has been an indispensable guide to classical Greek history since its first publication. Simon Hornblower has comprehensively re-written and revised his original text, bringing it up-to-date for a new generation of readers.The extensive changes include: two important new chapters ' Argos, and the Peloponnesian War the incorporation of further primary sources more than thirty new illustrations the insertion of user-friendly subheadings a completely updated bibliography.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 third edition of a classic work is a more essential read than ever before.

Author Biography

Simon Hornblower is a Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford. He was previously Professor of Classics and Grote Professor of Ancient History at University College London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy. His many publications in Greek history and classical civilization include A Commentary on Thucydides in three volumes (1991-2008). He is now working on commentaries on Herodotus books 5 and 6, and on Lykophron's Alexandra.

List of figures	p. ix
Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition	p. xi
Preface to the third edition	p. xii
Preface to the fourth edition	p. xvi
Abbreviations and brief glossary of terms	p. xviii
Introduction	p. 1
The extent of the Greek world in 479	p. 1
The plan of this book	p. 4
The sources	p. 4
The beginning of the Delian League	p. 8
The Athenians take the lead	p. 8
Terms of enrolment	p. 12
Mechanisms of control	p. 15
Empire	p. 18
Early years	p. 18
The æEphialticÆ reforms at Athens	p. 22
The 'First Peloponnesian War'	p. 25
The islands	p. 37
South Italy and Sicily	p. 43
'Big Greece: south Italy and Sicily as a unit	p. 43
The problem of the sources: Thucydides not enough	p. 44
Sicily	p. 47
South Italy	p. 59
Conclusion: a distinctive culture?	p. 60
Kyrene and Egypt	p. 62
Kyrene	p. 62
Egypt	p. 67
The Persian Empire, especially Asia Minor	p. 71
Introduction	p. 71
Satraps	p. 75
Asia Minor under the Persians	p. 77
Conclusion	p. 79
Argos	p. 80
Introduction: the physical setting and the sources	p. 80
Argos and 'kinship diplomacy'	p. 82
Argos in the fifth century BC	p. 85
Argos in the fourth century BC	p. 91
Macedon, Thessaly and Boiotia	p. 94
Macedon	p. 94
Thessaly	p. 101
Boiotia	p. 104
The run-up to the war	p. 108
The problem: can we trust Thucydides? The Great Gap	p. 108
The four stated aitiai	p. 112
Corinth	p. 116
Sparta	p. 121
Athens	p. 129
Introduction: Athens natural advantages	p. 129
The Athenian myths of identity	p. 132
Demes and city	p. 135
Council, Assembly, law courts	p. 143
Elite values and democratic ideology	p. 145
Generals and demagogues: fourth-century changes	p. 147
The Peloponnesian War	p. 155
Introduction. An important war?	p. 155
Resources and intended strategy	p. 157
The Archidamian War	p. 160
The Peace of Nikias; Mantineia campaign; Melos; Persia and Amorges	p. 165
Atheris and the west, especially 415-413	p. 168
413-411; the oligarchic revolution at Athens	p. 178
411 to Aigospotamoi and the Athenian surrender	p. 187
The effects of the Peloponnesian War	p. 190
Stasis and other upheavals; system building and treatise writing; professionalism	p. 190
Military theory and practice	p. 195
Political developments	p. 203
Economic changes	p. 207
Religion: change, and the absence of it	p. 213
The Corinthian War	p. 217
Introduction and summary	p. 217
Athens in defeat: the Thirty Tyrants	p. 218
The true cause of the Corinthian War: Spartan expansionism to all four points of the compass	p. 219
The Corinthian War	p. 225
The King's Peace	p. 232
The King's Peace to Leuktra; the Second Athenian Confederacy	p. 234
After the King's Peace	p. 234
The Second Athenian Confederacy	p. 240
Leuktra to Mantineia and the revolt of the satraps	p. 253
Jason of Pherai	p. 253
The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (1): the Peloponnese	p. 254
The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (2): the north	p. 256
The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (3): the Aegean	p. 260
The run-up to the battle of Mantineia: the revolt of the satraps	p. 263
Philip	p. 268
Introduction; Persia and Syracuse in mid-century	p. 268
Athens and the Social War	p. 271
Sparta in mid-century	p. 274
The Third Sacred War	p. 274
Philip's early years	p. 277
Up to the Peace of Philokrates (346)	p. 279
The Peace of Philokrates	p. 282
The breakdown of the peace, the battle of Chaironeia and the settlement of Greece	p. 284
Alexander	p. 290
The accession	p. 290
The Theban revolt; Alexander and the Greeks	p. 294
The invasion of Asia Minor	p. 297
Egypt; the city-foundations	p. 302
The visit to the Ammon oracle; deification	p. 305
Gaugamela; Alexander and the Persians	p. 308
The passage through Afghanistan; worsening relations between Alexander and the Macedonians	p. 312
India; the end	p. 316
Conclusion	p. 319
Notes	p. 321
References	p. 362
Index	p. 388
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