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THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY VOLUME VI
Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008
Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008
THE CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY SECOND EDITION VOLUME VI
The Fourth Century B.C. Edited by D. M. LEWIS
F.B.A.
Professor of Ancient History in the University of Oxford
JOHN BOARDMAN
F.B.A.
Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art in the University of Oxford
SIMON HORNBLOWER Fellow and Tutor of Oriel College and Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Oxford
M. OSTWALD William R. Kenan, Jr, Professor Emeritus of Classics, Swarthmore College and Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
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CONTENTS
List of maps
page xiii
hist of text-figures
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Preface
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Sources and their uses
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by SIMON HORNBLOWER
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Sparta as victor
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by D. M. L E W I S
1 The leader of Greece 11 Athens in Sparta, 403—395 B.C.
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Persia
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bj SIMON HORNBLOWER
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T h e Corinthian W a r by R O B I N S E A G E R , Reader in Classics and Ancient History, University of Liverpool 1 n in iv v vi vn
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Introduction The Achaemenid dynasty, 479-330 B.C. The nature of Persian rule and the powers of satraps Persian political history: the involvement with the Greeks, 400—336 B.C.
The causes and outbreak of war The war on land, 395—394 B.C. The return of Conon The peace negotiations of 392-391 B.C. The war on land, 391-388 B.C. The Aegean, 391—386 B.C. The King's Peace
Sicily, 413—368 B.C. by D. M. L E W I S
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The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy
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by ROBIN SEAGER
1 T h e supremacy of Sparta 11 T h e resurgence of Athens i n T h e rise of Thebes 7
T h e b e s i n t h e 360s B.C. by j . ROY, Senior Lecturer in Classics, University of Nottingham 1 11 in iv v vi VII vni ix
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Central Greece Peloponnesian affairs, 370—367 B.C. Thessaly and Macedon, 369—367 B.C. Peace negotiations, 367—366 B.C. Central Greece and the Peloponnese, 366—365 B.C. Northern Greece and the Aegean, 366—364 B.C. Peloponnesian affairs, 365—362 B.C. Internal political conflict in Greek states in this period T h e aftermath of the Battle of Mantinea
Regional surveys I: Persian lands and neighbours
%a Asia Minor
15 6 163 176 187 188 189 194 196 197 200 203 204 207
209 209
by SIMON HORNBLOWER
%b Mesopotamia, 482—330 B.C. by M A T T H E W w. S T O L P E R , Professor of Assyriology, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilisations and The Oriental Institute, University of Chicago 1 11 in iv 8f
Traces of political history Documentation, settlement and landscape Tenure, extraction and control Babylonian society and culture under Achaemenid influence
234 241 245 253
Judah by H A Y I M T A D M O R , Professor of Assyriology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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The Return Construction of the Temple Ezra and his mission Nehemiah's achievement The Samaritans and the circumstances of their separation Language and literature
262 264 272 276 286 290
Cyprus and Phoenicia by F. G. M A I E R , Professor of Ancient History, University of Zurich
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1 T h e kingdoms of Cyprus 11 Cyprus between Persia and the Greeks, c. 495-411 B.C. in The reign of Evagoras of Salamis
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iv The city states of Phoenicia v Cyprus and Phoenicia: from the Cypriot War to the Peace of 311 B.C.
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E g y p t , 404-332 B.C.
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by A L A N B. L L O Y D , Professor of Classics and Ancient History in the
University College of Swansea 1 Internal history 11 Foreign relations in Culture Appendix: chronology 9
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Regional surveys II: t h e West a n d N o r t h
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9« Carthage from t h e battle at H i m e r a t o A g a t h o c l e s ' invasion, 480-308 B.C. 361 by G. C H . PI C A R D , Honorary Professor, Universite de Paris — Sorbonne 1 Sources and approaches n The rule of the Magonids in The dismantling of kingship yb
361 365 371
South Italy in t h e fourth century B.C.
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by N I C H O L A S P U R C E L L , Fellow and Tutor of St John's College, and
Lecturer in Ancient History in the University of Oxford