The Athenian Empire
The Athenian Empire
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This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts presented include extracts from the important literary sources but also numerous inscriptions and coin legends, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.
- Includes a generous selection of texts in new translations to give the student quick and convenient access to the primary sources needed for their study of the Athenian Empire
- This volume includes a glossary, maps and other illustrations to help the student better understand the sources
- Written and reviewed by experienced teachers at schools and universities to ensure it provides exactly what students of ancient history require
Product details
September 2023Paperback
9781009383646
178 pages
244 × 170 × 10 mm
0.33kg
7 b/w illus. 5 maps 1 table
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Table of Contents
- Part I. The Story of Empire:
- 1. The formation of the Delian League
- 2. The growth, development and changing nature of the Delian League
- 3. The Empire from c. 450 to the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
- 4. The state of the Empire at the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
- 5. Athens and her Empire during the Arkhidamian War
- 6. From the Peace of Nikias to the end of the Empire
- Part II. An Institutional Survey of the Empire
- 7. Tribute (184-97)
- 8. Other obligations imposed on all allies (198-206)
- 9. Athenian interference with individual allies (207-34)
- 10. The benefits of empire for individuals (235-43)
- 11. Fourth-century retrospectives on the Athenian Empire (244-6).
