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List of figures | |
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Preface and acknowledgements to the first edition | |
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Preface to the third edition | |
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Preface to the fourth edition | |
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Abbreviations and brief glossary of terms | |
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Introduction | |
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The extent of the Greek world in 479 | |
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The plan of this book | |
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The sources | |
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The beginning of the Delian League | |
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The Athenians take the lead | |
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Terms of enrolment | |
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Mechanisms of control | |
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Empire | |
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Early years | |
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The �Ephialtic� reforms at Athens | |
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The 'First Peloponnesian War' | |
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The islands | |
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South Italy and Sicily | |
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'Big Greece: south Italy and Sicily as a unit | |
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The problem of the sources: Thucydides not enough | |
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Sicily | |
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South Italy | |
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Conclusion: a distinctive culture? | |
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Kyrene and Egypt | |
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Kyrene | |
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Egypt | |
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The Persian Empire, especially Asia Minor | |
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Introduction | |
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Satraps | |
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Asia Minor under the Persians | |
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Conclusion | |
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Argos | |
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Introduction: the physical setting and the sources | |
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Argos and 'kinship diplomacy' | |
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Argos in the fifth century BC | |
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Argos in the fourth century BC | |
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Macedon, Thessaly and Boiotia | |
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Macedon | |
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Thessaly | |
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Boiotia | |
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The run-up to the war | |
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The problem: can we trust Thucydides? The Great Gap | |
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The four stated aitiai | |
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Corinth | |
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Sparta | |
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Athens | |
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Introduction: Athens natural advantages | |
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The Athenian myths of identity | |
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Demes and city | |
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Council, Assembly, law courts | |
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Elite values and democratic ideology | |
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Generals and demagogues: fourth-century changes | |
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The Peloponnesian War | |
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Introduction. An important war? | |
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Resources and intended strategy | |
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The Archidamian War | |
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The Peace of Nikias; Mantineia campaign; Melos; Persia and Amorges | |
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Atheris and the west, especially 415-413 | |
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413-411; the oligarchic revolution at Athens | |
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411 to Aigospotamoi and the Athenian surrender | |
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The effects of the Peloponnesian War | |
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Stasis and other upheavals; system building and treatise writing; professionalism | |
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Military theory and practice | |
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Political developments | |
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Economic changes | |
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Religion: change, and the absence of it | |
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The Corinthian War | |
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Introduction and summary | |
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Athens in defeat: the Thirty Tyrants | |
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The true cause of the Corinthian War: Spartan expansionism to all four points of the compass | |
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The Corinthian War | |
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The King's Peace | |
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The King's Peace to Leuktra; the Second Athenian Confederacy | |
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After the King's Peace | |
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The Second Athenian Confederacy | |
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Leuktra to Mantineia and the revolt of the satraps | |
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Jason of Pherai | |
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The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (1): the Peloponnese | |
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The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (2): the north | |
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The three theatres of Theban foreign policy (3): the Aegean | |
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The run-up to the battle of Mantineia: the revolt of the satraps | |
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Philip | |
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Introduction; Persia and Syracuse in mid-century | |
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Athens and the Social War | |
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Sparta in mid-century | |
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The Third Sacred War | |
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Philip's early years | |
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Up to the Peace of Philokrates (346) | |
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The Peace of Philokrates | |
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The breakdown of the peace, the battle of Chaironeia and the settlement of Greece | |
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Alexander | |
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The accession | |
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The Theban revolt; Alexander and the Greeks | |
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The invasion of Asia Minor | |
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Egypt; the city-foundations | |
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The visit to the Ammon oracle; deification | |
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Gaugamela; Alexander and the Persians | |
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The passage through Afghanistan; worsening relations between Alexander and the Macedonians | |
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India; the end | |
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Conclusion | |
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Notes | |
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References | |
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Index | |