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Author |
: Donald Kagan |
Publisher |
: Cornell University Press |
Total Pages |
: 476 |
Release |
: 2013-01-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780801467264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0801467268 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Fall of the Athenian Empire by : Donald Kagan
"The fourth volume in Kagan's history of ancient Athens, which has been called one of the major achievements of modern historical scholarship, begins with the ill-fated Sicilian expedition of 413 B.C. and ends with the surrender of Athens to Sparta in 404 B.C. Richly documented, precise in detail, it is also extremely well-written, linking it to a tradition of historical narrative that has become rare in our time." ― Virginia Quarterly Review In the fourth and final volume of his magisterial history of the Peloponnesian War, Donald Kagan examines the period from the destruction of Athens' Sicilian expedition in September of 413 B.C. to the Athenian surrender to Sparta in the spring of 404 B.C. Through his study of this last decade of the war, Kagan evaluates the performance of the Athenian democracy as it faced its most serious challenge. At the same time, Kagan assesses Thucydides' interpretation of the reasons for Athens’ defeat and the destruction of the Athenian Empire.
Author |
: John T. Ma |
Publisher |
: Bristol Classical Press |
Total Pages |
: 260 |
Release |
: 2009-03-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39076002802887 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Interpreting the Athenian Empire by : John T. Ma
This title explores new approaches to the key phenomenon of 5th-century Greek history, the growth and collapse of the Athenian Empire.
Author |
: Lisa Kallet |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 203 |
Release |
: 2020-11-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107015371 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107015375 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Athenian Empire by : Lisa Kallet
The first book to illustrate and integrate coinage comprehensively as historical evidence for the Athenian empire.
Author |
: George William Cox (calling himself Sir George William Cox.) |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 1876 |
ISBN-10 |
: NLS:V000562925 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Athenian Empire by : George William Cox (calling himself Sir George William Cox.)
Author |
: Angeliki Tzanetou |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2012-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292737167 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292737165 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis City of Suppliants by : Angeliki Tzanetou
After fending off Persia in the fifth century BCE, Athens assumed a leadership position in the Aegean world. Initially it led the Delian League, a military alliance against the Persians, but eventually the league evolved into an empire with Athens in control and exacting tribute from its former allies. Athenians justified this subjection of their allies by emphasizing their fairness and benevolence towards them, which gave Athens the moral right to lead. But Athenians also believed that the strong rule over the weak and that dominating others allowed them to maintain their own freedom. These conflicting views about Athens’ imperial rule found expression in the theater, and this book probes how the three major playwrights dramatized Athenian imperial ideology. Through close readings of Aeschylus’ Eumenides, Euripides’ Children of Heracles, and Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus, as well as other suppliant dramas, Angeliki Tzanetou argues that Athenian tragedy performed an important ideological function by representing Athens as a benevolent and moral ruler that treated foreign suppliants compassionately. She shows how memorable and disenfranchised figures of tragedy, such as Orestes and Oedipus, or the homeless and tyrant-pursued children of Heracles were generously incorporated into the public body of Athens, thus reinforcing Athenians’ sense of their civic magnanimity. This fresh reading of the Athenian suppliant plays deepens our understanding of how Athenians understood their political hegemony and reveals how core Athenian values such as justice, freedom, piety, and respect for the laws intersected with imperial ideology.
Author |
: Ian Worthington |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages |
: 425 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780190633981 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0190633980 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Athens After Empire by : Ian Worthington
"When we think of ancient Athens, the image invariably coming to mind is of the Classical city, with monuments beautifying everywhere; the Agora swarming with people conducting business and discussing political affairs; and a flourishing intellectual, artistic, and literary life, with life anchored in the ideals of freedom, autonomy, and democracy. But in 338 that forever changed when Philip II of Macedonia defeated a Greek army at Chaeronea to impose Macedonian hegemony over Greece. The Greeks then remained under Macedonian rule until the new power of the Mediterranean world, Rome, annexed Macedonia and Greece into its empire. How did Athens fare in the Hellenistic and Roman periods? What was going on in the city, and how different was it from its Classical predecessor? There is a tendency to think of Athens remaining in decline in these eras, as its democracy was curtailed, the people were forced to suffer periods of autocratic rule, and especially under the Romans enforced building activity turned the city into a provincial one than the "School of Hellas" that Pericles had proudly proclaimed it to be, and the Athenians were forced to adopt the imperial cult and watch Athena share her home, the sacred Acropolis, with the goddess Roma. But this dreary picture of decline and fall belies reality, as my book argues. It helps us appreciate Hellenistic and Roman Athens and to show it was still a vibrant and influential city. A lot was still happening in the city, and its people were always resilient: they fought their Macedonian masters when they could, and later sided with foreign kings against Rome, always in the hope of regaining that most cherished ideal, freedom. Hellenistic Athens is far from being a postscript to its Classical predecessor, as is usually thought. It was simply different. Its rich and varied history continued, albeit in an altered political and military form, and its Classical self lived on in literature and thought. In fact, it was its status as a cultural and intellectual juggernaut that enticed Romans to the city, some to visit, others to study. The Romans might have been the ones doing the conquering, but in adapting aspects of Hellenism for their own cultural and political needs, they were the ones, as the poet Horace claimned, who ended up being captured"--
Author |
: Thucydides |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 158 |
Release |
: 1893 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:HN6M5C |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5C Downloads) |
Synopsis The Rise of the Athenian Empire by : Thucydides
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 371 |
Release |
: 2019-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004407671 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004407677 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (71 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empires of the Sea by :
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume aims to establish maritime empires as a category for the (comparative) study of premodern empires, and from a partly ‘non-western’ perspective. The book includes contributions on Mycenaean sea power, Classical Athens, the ancient Thebans, Ptolemaic Egypt, The Genoese Empire, power networks of the Vikings, the medieval Danish Empire, the Baltic empire of Ancien Régime Sweden, the early modern Indian Ocean, the Melaka Empire, the (non-European aspects of the) Portuguese Empire and Dutch East India Company, and the Pirates of Caribbean.
Author |
: John M. MacKenzie |
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: |
Total Pages |
: |
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: |
ISBN-10 |
: 111845507X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781118455074 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (7X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Encyclopedia of Empire by : John M. MacKenzie
The Encyclopedia of Empire provides exceptional in-depth, comparative coverage of empires throughout human history and across the globe.
Author |
: Robin Osborne |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015042400377 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Athenian Empire by : Robin Osborne
This very useful volume translates part of Hill's Sources for Greek History (478-431 BC) with other material relating to the Athenian Empire. This revised edition builds on the work of previous editors (Davies, Clayton and Meiggs) and includes a detailed bibliography.