The following are concerned with particular aspects of the subject: G. E. R. Lloyd, Polarity and Analogy
(Cambridge, 1966: discusses in depth two of the main types of argument and explanation used by early
Greek thinkers); W. Jaeger, The Theology of the Early Greek Philosophers (Oxford, 1947); D. R. Dicks,
Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle (London, 1970). Knowledge of Greek is required for C. H. Kahn,
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology (New York, i960: wider in scope than its title
suggests), and M. L. West, Early Greek Philosophy and the Orient (Oxford, 1971).
Useful collections of important, mostly rather specialized articles have been published in book form by
D.J. Furley and R. E. Allen, Studies in Presocratic Philosophy (London, 1970-5, 2 vols.), and by A. P.
D. Mourelatos, The Pre-Socratics (New York, 1974).
- Greece: The History Of The Classical Period (By Simon Hornblower)
The ancient sources for the period from the Persian to the Peloponnesian wars were collected in G. F.
Hill, Sources for Greek History 478-431 B.C. (revised edn. Oxford, 1951 by R. Meiggs and A.
Andrewes). The indexes are specially useful because they set out the ancient references under
geographical and chronological headings. The fifth-century part of Fornara (above, p. 48) translates
many of the items, literary and epigraphic, in Hill. The later part of the period is covered by P. Harding,
From the end of the Peloponnesian War to the battle of Ipsus (Cambridge, 1985). There are good revised
Penguin translations of Thucydides (revised by M. I. Finley) and Xeno-phon (revised by G. L.
Cawkwell), The Persian Expedition and A History of My Times.
There are two recent histories of classical Greece: J. K. Davies, Democracy and Classical Greece
(London, 1978), the subject-matter of which is broader than the title implies: this is a stimulating general
history of the period; S. Hornblower, The Greek World, 479-323 B.C. (London, 1983), which gives
fuller bibliographies than is possible in the present work.
On the Athenian Empire the major works of modern times are B. Meritt, H. T. Wade-Gery, and M. F.
McGregor, The Athenian Tribute Lists III (Harvard, 1950) and R. Meiggs, The Athenian Empire
(Oxford, 1972, with paperback reissue in 1979). (The same author's Trees and Timber in the Ancient
Mediterranean World (Oxford, 1982) brings out the importance to imperial Athens of sources of timber
supply.) An excellent brief survey is P.J. Rhodes, The Athenian Empire (Greece & Rome New Surveys
in the Classics xvii, 1985). The relevant source-material is translated and commented on in M.
Greenstock and S. Hornblower, The Athenian Empire (LACTOR i3, 1983).
On Athenian democracy, much work and rethinking has been done since C. Hignett's conservative and
sceptical History of the Athenian Constitution (Oxford, 1952) and A. H. M. Jones's still invaluable
Athenian Democracy (Oxford, 1957). The most important books (though many of the major new theses
have been advanced in articles) are W. R. Connor, The New Politicians of Fifth-Century Athens
(Princeton, 1971); P.J. Rhodes, The Athenian Boule (Oxford, 1972) and the same author's magnificent