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Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War

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ISBN-10: 0521299462

ISBN-13: 9780521299466

Edition: 2nd 1983 (Revised)

Authors: Charles W. Fornara, E. Badian, Robert K. Sherk

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The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias, scholia, and similar sources. The material, much of it translated by him for the first time, covers not only events of national significance - wars and treaties, the founding of towns and colonies, the dedication of temples - but also presents such records of daily life as ration lists, wine trade regulations, inventories of treasure, drinking songs, and financial records. The documents are accompanied by a brief commentary, which is basically…    
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Book details

List price: $39.99
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/21/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 268
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Preface to the second edition
Volume editor's introduction
Abbreviations
Ancient chronology
The date of Lykourgos of Sparta
The establishment of the Olympic Games
Pheidon of Agros
The foundation of Croton
The Lelantine War
The use of the word tyrant
The foundation of Tarentum by the Partheniai of Sparta
Orthagoras, Tyrant of Sicyon
Law of the city of Dreros (Crete)
Tyrtaeus of Sparta, the Messenian Wars, and the Great Rhetra
Spartan treatment of helots
Memorial to a Locrain proxenos at Corcyra
Drakon's law on homicide
The first sacred War
Battos, the founder of Cyrene
The foundation of Cyrene
Law from Chios
Gravestone of Phanodikos of Prokonnesos
Epitaph of the Corinthians who died at Salamis
The Athenian naukrariai
The Athenian archon list
Greek mercenaries in Egyptian service
Alliance between Elis and Heraia in Western Arcadia
The establishment of the Panathenaic festival
Spratan treaty with Tegea
Kroisos' gifts to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
Treaty between Sybaris and the Serdaioi
The wives of Hippias and Hipparchos, the sons of Peisistratos of Athens
The nature of Peisistratos' rule
Polykrates, Tyrant of Samos
Law from a Locrain community settling new territory
A list of Dareios' subjects
Letter of Dareios
An argive rule about the use of sacred treasures
Dedication of peisistratos son of Hippias
A Spartan dedication
The liberation of Athens
The rebuilding of the Temple at Delphi by the Alkmeonidai
Ostracism at Athens
Epigrams celebrating an Athenian victory over Boeotia and Chalcis
Dedication of the Athenian portico at Delphi
Athenian klerouchy at Salamis
Rations for Ionian mothers working at Persepolis
An Ionian contractor at Persepolis
Law of the Eastern (Hypocnemidian) Locrians about their colony at Naupactus
The Persian cavalry at Marathon
Dedication of Kallimachos
Athenian thank-offering for Marathon
Athenian epigrams on the Persian wars
The Greek embassy to Gelon
A supplication by Corinthian women during Xerxes' war
Gelon's thank-offering for the victory at Himera
The decree of Themistokles
Contribution of the Naxians to the war effort against the Persians
Oath of the Athenians taken betore the Battle of Plataea
The number of the Athenian dead at Plataca
Greek thank-offering for victory in the Persian War
Megarian memorial of the Persian War
Pausanias, regent of Sparta, and his actions after the victory at Plataea
Attempts at colonizing Ennea Hodoi in Thrac
Regulations of the Teians
Hieron's thank-offering for the victory at Cumae
Themistokles' ostracism and flight to Persia
Political expulsions from Miletus
The Messenian Revolt
Athenian relations with Phaselis
The ban against Arthmios of Zeleia
A Halicarnassian law concerning disputed property
Regulations imposed by the Athenians on Erythrae
Egypt rebels from Persia
Spartan aid to Thebes
Perikles' oratory
Athenian regulation of the Eleusinian Mysteries
Kimon's return from ostracism
Samians fight in Egypt
Casualty list of the Erechtheid tribe of Athens
The building of the Long Walls and the Middle Wall at Athens
Thank-offering by the Lacedaemonians for the victory at Tanagra
Alliance of Athens and Egesta
Athenian compact involving the Delphic Amphictyony or Phocis
Dedication of Athenian knights
Tolmides' circumnavigation of the Peloponnesus
The first tribute quota list of 454/3 B.C.
Limitation of Athenian citizenship
Treaty between Oianthia and Chalcion, and law of Chaleion
The civil laws of Gortyn
Relations between Argos, Criossus, and Tylissos
Nemesis and the accounts of her temple in the Attic deme of Rhamnous
A victory of