Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC
Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC
The streams of Greek history in the fourth century are highly controversial. Sandwiched between the Classical fifth century and the Hellenistic period, the era has invited various readings, most prominently the verdict of decrepitude and decline. Recent discoveries, however, indicate that the period was not simply illustrative of the political, social, and economic weaknesses of the Greek city-state. This book examines the fourth century from an area with its own regional dynamics: central Greece, a region often considered as a backwater for macro-politics. The authors disclose a vivid tension between regional politics in Boeotia and its adjacent territories and Greek affairs. They provide a meticulous and, at times, microscopic investigation into the region's military and political history, together with detailed analyses of the topography of the places 'where history was made.' The result is a dazzling account of Greece's power transition crisis on the eve of the Macedonian conquest.
- Important contribution to the interpretation of a controversial era in Greek history
- Explores in detail the politics of a previously-neglected area of Greece
- Examines the interaction between regional politics and panhellenic affairs - a new approach to this period in history
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9781009113861
329 pages
227 × 150 × 20 mm
0.51kg
Table of Contents
- Prologue: power politics in fourth-century Greece
- Part I. Alliance:
- 1. A survey of Theban and Athenian relations between 403 and 371 BC
- 2. The incident at Mt. Parnassus, 395 BC
- 3. The Battle of Coronea and its historiographical legacy
- 4. The King's Peace, alliance, and Phoebidas' strike (382 BC)
- 5. Sphodrias' raid and the evolution of the Athenian League
- Part II. Hegemony:
- 6. The re-establishment of the boeotarchia (378 BC)
- 7. The Battle of Tegyra, 375 BC
- 8. Plutarch on Leuctra
- 9. Alliance and hegemony in fourth-century Greece: the case of the Theban hegemony
- 10. Xenophon's speeches and the Theban hegemony
- 11. The phantom synedrion of the Boeotian Confederacy, 378–335 BC
- 12. Boeotian Aulis and Greek naval bases
- 13. Epaminondas and the new Inscription from Cnidus
- Part III. Domination:
- 14. Thebes, Delphi, and the outbreak of the Sacred War
- 15. Pammenes, the Persians, and the Sacred War
- 16. Philip II, the Greeks, and the King, 346–336 BC
- 17. A note on the Battle of Chaeronea
- 18. Philip's designs on Greece
- 19. Epilogue.
