The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 6: The Fourth Century BC [2nd Revised & enlarged] 0521233488, 9780521233484

Table of contents :
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of maps
List of text-figures
Preface
CHAPTER 1 Sources and their uses
CHAPTER 2 Sparta as victor
I. The leader of Greece
II. Athens
III. Sparta, 403-395 B.C.
CHAPTER 3 Persia
I. Introduction
II. The Achaemenid dynasty, 479-330 B.C.
III. The nature of Persian rule and the powers of satraps
IV. Persian political history: the involvement with the Greeks, 400-336 B.C.
CHAPTER 4 The Corinthian War
I. The causes and outbreak of war
II. The war on land, 395-394 B.C
III. The return of Conon
IV. The peace negotiations of 392-391 B.C.
V. The war on land, 391-388 B.C.
VI. The Aegean, 391-386 B.C.
VII. The King's Peace
CHAPTER 5 Sicily, 413-368 B.C.
CHAPTER 6 The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy
I. The supremacy of Sparta
II. The resurgence of Athens
III. The rise of Thebes
CHAPTER 7 Thebes in the 360s B.C.
I. Central Greece
II. Peloponnesian affairs, 370-367 B.C.
III. Thessaly and Macedon, 369-367 B.C.
IV. Peace negotiations, 367-366 B.C.
V. Central Greece and the Peloponnese, 366-365 B.C.
VI. Northern Greece and the Aegean, 366-364 B.C.
VII. Peloponnesian affairs, 365-362 B.C.
VIII. Internal political conflict in Greek states in this period
IX. The aftermath of the Battle of Mantinea
CHAPTER 8 Regional surveys I: Persian lands and neighbours
CHAPTER 8a Asia Minor
CHAPTER 8b Mesopotamia, 482-330 B.C.
I. Traces of political history
II. Documentation, settlement and landscape
III. Tenure, extraction and control
IV. Babylonian society and culture under Achaemenid influence
CHAPTER 8c Judah
I. The Return
1. The Edict of Cyrus
2. Sheshbangar 'the prince of Judah'
II. Construction of the Temple
1. Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel
2. Delays and completion
3. Jerusalem as a temple city
4. From Zerubbabel to Ezra
III. Ezra and his mission
1. The authority of Ezra
2. Spiritual awakening in Babylon
3. The 'congregation of the captivity' and the 'peoples of the lands'
IV. Nehemiah's achievement
1. The personality of Nehemiah
2. Nehemiah's opponents and the rectification of Jerusalem
3. Nehemiah's social reforms
4. Intervention in Temple affairs
5. Enforcement of the law and the covenant
6. Nehemiah's successors
V. The Samaritans and the circumstances of their separation
VI. Language and literature
1. The vernacular as a literary language
2. Literature and its social context
3. The cessation of prophecy
CHAPTER 8d Cyprus and Phoenicia
I. The kingdoms of Cyprus
II. Cyprus between Persia and the Greeks, c. 495-411 B.C.
III. The reign of Evagoras of Salamis
IV. The city states of Phoenicia
V. Cyprus and Phoenicia: from the Cypriot War to the Peace of
311 B.C.
CHAPTER 8e Egypt, 404-332 B.C.
I. Internal history
II. Foreign relations
III. Culture
Appendix: chronology
CHAPTER 9 Regional surveys II: the West and North
CHAPTER 9a Carthage from the battle at Himera to Agathocles' invasion,
480-308 B.C.
I. Sources and approaches
II. The rule of the Magonids
III. The dismantling of kingship
CHAPTER 9b South Italy in the fourth century B.C.
CHAPTER 9c Celtic Europe
CHAPTER 9d Illyrians and North-west Greeks
I. The Illyrians c. 540-360 B.C.
II. The north-west Greeks c. 540-360 B.C.
III. Illyrians and north-west Greeks c. 360-323 B.C.
CHAPTER 9e Thracians and Scythians
I. The founding rulers of the Odrysian kingdom - Teres and
Sitalces
II. The north Aegean background
III. Athens, Amphipolis and Thrace in the Peloponnesian War
period
IV. Amadocus the Elder and Younger, Hebryzelmis and Cotys I
V. Philip II of Macedon and Odrysian Thrace
VI. Scythians, Triballi and Getae
VII. Philip II, Atheas and the Triballi
CHAPTER 9f The Bosporan Kingdom
I. Introduction: topography and sources
II. Colonization in the Black Sea and by the Bosporus
III. The fifth century
IV. The early Spartocids: arcbons or barbarian tyrants?
V. Kings of a declining Bosporus
VI. Successful synoecism on the Cimmerian Bosporus
CHAPTER 9g Mediterranean communications
I. Communications by land
II. Sailing the Mediterranean
III. The ships
IV. The eastern basin
V. The Malta and Sicily channels and Strait of Messina
VI. The western basin
VII. Ports
CHAPTER 10 Society and economy
I. Social and political conflicts {stasis)
II. Fourth-century Athens: the anatomy of politics
III. The finances of Greek states
IV. External sources of wealth
V. The corn supply of Greek states
CHAPTER 11 The polis and the alternatives
I. Fourth-century Athens: the machinery of government
II. Fourth-century Athens: the anatomy of politics
III. Alternatives to the polis
IV. The failure of the polis?
CHAPTER 12 Greek culture and science
CHAPTER 12a The growth of schools and the advance of knowledge
I. Antecedents
II. The first schools
1. The Socratics
2. Isocrates
III. Plato's Academy
1. Plato
2. The Academy
3. Plato at the Academy
4. Plato's successors
5. Other members of the Academy: the extent and character of the philosophical community
IV. Aristotle and the Peripatos
1. Aristotle in the Academy
2. Aristotle's Wanderjahre: Assus, Mytilene and Macedonia
3. Aristotle's return to Athens in 335 B.C.
4. The achievements of the Peripatos
V. Conclusions
CHAPTER 12b Medicine
CHAPTER 12c Greek art: Classical to Hellenistic
I. Style and iconology
II. Artists and patrons
III. Lysippus
CHAPTER 12d Greek agriculture in the classical period
I. Introduction
II. The cultivation of crops
III. The agricultural landscape
IV. Landowners and labourers
V. The character of Greek agriculture
CHAPTER 12e Warfare
CHAPTER 13 Dion and Timoleon
A. Sicily, 367-354 B.C
I. Sources
II. Dionysius, Dion and Plato, 367-360 B.C.
III. The expedition of Dion and its sequel, 360-355 B.C.
IV. The fall of Dion, 355-354 B.C.
B. Sicily, 354-330 B.C.
I. Sources
II. Turbulent interlude, 354-345 B.C.
III. The liberation of Syracuse
IV. The perils of liberated Syracuse
V. The liberation of Greek Sicily
VI. Social and political reconstruction
VII. Economic recovery
VIII. Epilogue
CHAPTER 14 Macedon and north-west Greece
I. The Macedonian background
II. Macedonian society
III. Philip's early reign, 360-357 B.C.
IV. The Macedonian army
V. The Social War and its consequences, 357-355 B.C.
VI. The early years of the Sacred War
VII. Philip and Thessaly
VIII. The fall of Olynthus
IX. Philip's policy and the Peace of Philocrates
CHAPTER 15 Macedonian hegemony created
I. Aftermath of the Peace of Philocrates
II. Isocrates and panhellenism
III. Reorganization in Macedonia and Thessaly
IV. The courting of Athens
V. Aristotle and Hermias
VI. Euboea
VII. Thrace, Perinthus and Byzantium
VIII. War
IX. Settlements and common peace
X. Preparations
XI. A beginning in Asia and an end in Macedon
CHAPTER 16 Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign
I. The accession, 336-335 B.C.
II. The conquest of the Aegean coast, 334-333 B.C
III. From Cilicia to Egypt, 333 and 332 B.C.
IV. Egypt to Parthyaea, 331-330 B.C.: the end of Darius
V. The conquest of eastern Iran and the Bactrian lands, 330-327
B.C.
VI. The Indian campaigns, 327-325 B.C.
VII. The last years, 325-323 B.C.
CHAPTER 17 Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered
territories
A. Mainland Greece in Alexander's reign
I. The dominance of the Corinthian League, 336-330 B.C.
II. The Exiles' Decree and the origins of the Lamian War
B. King and empire
I. The appointment of satraps
II. Financial administration
III. The city foundations
IV. The Greeks of Asia Minor
V. King and god
CHAPTER 18 Epilogue
Chronological table
BIBLIOGRAPHY
.Abbreviations
A. General
B. Sources
I. Literary sources
II. Epigraphy
III. Numismatics
C. The Greek states
I. General history, constitutions, peaces, etc
II. Athens
III. Sparta
IV. Boeotia and Thebes
V. Others
D. Macedon
I. General
II. Philip
III. Alexander
E. The North
I. Celtic Europe
II. North-western Greeks and Illyria
III. Thracians and Scythians
IV. The Bosporan kingdom
F. The Eat
I. Persia and the Persian empire
II. Babylonia
III. Syria, Phoenicia and Cyprus
IV. Judah
V. Egypt
VI. Asia Minor
G. The West
I. Carthage
II. Italy and Sicily
H. Greek culture and science
I. Philosophy, rhetoric and religion
II. Medicine
I. Social and economic history
J. Art and architecture
K. Warfare