The Greek World 479-323BCThe main aim of this book is to do justice to all the areas of the Mediterranean world in which Greek culture flourished in the fifth and the fourth centuries BC. |
Contents
1 Xerxes legacy | 1 |
2 Phthonos envy and the origin of the Delian League | 15 |
3 Athens imposes her will | 32 |
4 Italy and Sicily in the Fifty Years | 48 |
5 Cyrene Africa and Egypt in the flfth century | 59 |
6 Persia and Asia Minor | 66 |
7 Macedon Thessaly and Boiotia | 74 |
8 The eve of war | 88 |
12 The Peloponnesian War | 127 |
13 The effects of the Peloponnesian War intellectual activity and treatisewriting warfare politics economic life religion | 153 |
14 The Corinthian War | 181 |
15 The Kings Peace to Leuktra | 202 |
16 Leuktra to Mantinea and the Revolt of the Satraps | 223 |
17 Philip | 239 |
18 Alexander | 261 |
Notes | 294 |
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Aegean Agesilaus Aischin Alcibiades Alexander Alexander’s alliance allies Amphipolis Amyntas Ancient Argos Arkadian Arrian Asia Minor Assembly Athenian Athens Attica battle Boiotia Bosworth chapter classical cleruchies confederacy Corinth Corinthian Council Cyrene Cyrus decree deme democracy democratic Demosthenes difficulties Diod Diodorus Dionysius early Egypt Epaminondas Euboia evidence fifth century fighting final find first fleet Fornara fourth century G. L. Cawkwell garrison Greece Greek Greek world Hell hellenistic helots Herodotus historian hoplites Hornblower influence inscription Kallisthenes Karian Kimon king King’s Peace Kleon land League Leuktra Lysander Macedon Macedonian Mausolus Megara mercenaries military official oligarchic Olynthus Pausanias Peloponnese Peloponnesian Peloponnesian League Peloponnesian War perhaps Pericles period Persian Empire Persian Wars Pherai Philip Phokians Phokis Plataia Plut political revolt Samos satraps says shows Sicilian Sicily Sparta specifically Syracuse Theban Thebes Themistokles Theramenes Thessalian Thessaly Thuc Thucydides tribute tyrants Xenophon