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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckler, John, author.

Beck, Hans, 1969- author.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 309 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Other Title:

Central Greece & the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

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 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.

Contents:

Prologue: power politics in fourth-century Greece / by Hans Beck

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

The incident at Mt. Parnassus, 395 BC

The battle of Coronea and its historiographical legacy

The king's peace, alliance, and Phoebidas' strike (382 BC)

Sphodrias' raid and the evolution of the Athenian league

The re-establishment of the boiōtarchia (378 BC)

The battle of Tegyra, 375 BC

Plutarch and Leuctra

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

Xenophon's speeches and the Theban hegemony

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

Boeotian Aulis and Greek naval bases

Epaminondas and the new inscription from Cnidus

Thebes, Delphi, and the outbreak of the Sacred War

Pammenes, the Persians, and the Sacred War

Phillip II, the Greeks, and the king, 346-336 BC

A note on the battle of Chaeronea

Philip II's designs on Greece

Epilogue / by John Buckler and Hans Beck.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

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

ISBN:

1-107-17489-9

1-281-94459-9

9786611944599

0-511-45596-8

0-511-48271-X

0-511-45726-X

0-511-45417-1

0-511-45324-8

0-511-45521-6

OCLC:

437240810