A History of the Classical Greek World: 478 - 323 BC(Blackwell History of the Ancient World)

Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Two important new chapters have been added, covering life and culture in the classical Greek world Features new pedagogical tools, including textboxes, and a comprehensive chronological table of the West, mainland Greece, and the Aegean Enlarged and additional maps and illustrative material Covers the history of an important period, including: the flourishing of democracy in Athens; the Peloponnesian war, and the conquests of Alexander the Great Focuses on the evidence for the period, and how the evidence is to be interpreted

Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations vii List of Figures ix List of Maps x Preface xi Note on References xiii Chronological Table xv 1 Introduction 1 2 The Formation of the Delian League 14 3 The Peloponnese in the Early Fifth Century 24 4 Athens After the Persian Wars 34 5 The Athenian Empire in the Mid Fifth Century 47 6 Periclean Athens 59 7 The Greeks in the West: The Rise of Syracuse 77 8 The Peloponnesian War: Origins 87 9 The Peloponnesian War: Resources and Strategies 96 10 The Peloponnesian War: 431–421 107 11 The Athens of Cleon 122 12 The Peloponnesian War: 421–413 131 13 The Peloponnesian War: 413–404 149 14 Athens in the Late Fifth Century 163 15 The Athenian Empire: Retrospect 183 16 Life in the Classical Greek World 200 17 Culture in the Classical Greek World 209 18 Introduction to the Fourth Century: The Common Peace 224 19 Sparta’s Imperialism and Collapse 239 Appendix: Persia and its Rebels 256 20 The Second Athenian League 261 21 Thebes and Northern Greece 279 22 Athens After the Peloponnesian War 293 23 The Western Greeks from Dionysius I to Timoleon 311 24 Philip II of Macedon 332 Appendix: Persia and the Greeks in the Reign of Artaxerxes III 361 25 Demosthenic Athens 367 Appendix: Sparta 384 26 Alexander the Great: Sources and Outline 388 27 Alexander the Great: Topics 401 28 Epilogue 427 Glossary 431 Bibliography 435 Index 445

About the Author :
P. J. Rhodes is Honorary Professor of Ancient History at the University of Durham. He is the author of many books on Greek history, including The Athenian Boule (1972), A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (1981), Aristotle: The Athenian Constitution (1984), The Decrees of the Greek States (with D. M. Lewis, 1997) and Greek Historical Inscriptions, 404–323 BC (with R. Osborne, 2003). Most recently, he has edited The Old Oligarch (with J. L. Marr, 2008), and has written the Introduction and Notes for Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War (translated by M. Hammond, 2009).