Central Greece and the politics of power in the fourth century BC / John Buckler and Hans Beck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckler, John.

Contributor:

Beck, Hans, 1969-

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Central Greece and Euboea (Greece)--Politics and government.

Central Greece and Euboea (Greece).

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xviii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Summary:

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 a backwater for macropolitics. 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.

Contents:

Prologue: Power politics in fourth-century Greece (by Hans Beck) 1

Part I Alliance 31

1 A survey of Theban and Athenian relations between 403-371 BC 33

2 The incident at Mt. Parnassus, 395 BC 44

3 The battle of Coronea and its historiographical legacy 59

4 The King's Peace, alliance, and Phoebidas' strike (382 BC) 71

5 Sphodrias' raid and the evolution of the Athenian League 79

Part II Hegemony 85

6 The re-establishment of the boiotarchia (378 BC) 87

7 The battle of Tegyra, 375 BC 99

8 Plutarch on Leuctra 111

9 Alliance and hegemony in fourth-century Greece: the case of the Theban Hegemony 127

10 Xenophon's speeches and the Theban Hegemony 140

11 The phantom synedrion of the Boeotian Confederacy, 378-335 BC 165

12 Boeotian Aulis and Greek naval bases 180

13 Epaminondas and the new inscription from Cnidus 199

Part III Domination 211

14 Thebes, Delphi, and the outbreak of the Sacred War 213

15 Pammenes, the Persians, and the Sacred War 224

16 Philip II, the Greeks, and the King, 346-336 BC 233

17 A note on the battle of Chaeronea 254

18 Philip II's designs on Greece 259.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780521837057

0521837057

OCLC:

174449822

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