The Greeks An Introduction to Their Culture, 3rd edition

The Peloponnesian War The immediate occasion of this major conflict, which was fought out in various phases from the outbreak of ...

dominate the assembly, exploited discontent by making alliances with Peloponnesian states in dispute with Sparta, who reasserted ...

much-reduced Athenian fleet was finally defeated at the battle of Aegospotami in the Hellespont. With no fleet to protect her an ...

in turning the Persian king against his Greek allies. In 387/6, Sparta imposed upon the Greek world the King’s Peace, which she ...

There is evidence here of the Spartan ethos in the response of the ephors and of the women on the following day. The beaming fac ...

After his accession to the throne in 359, Philip gradually secured his power base in Macedonia, moved against neighbouring tribe ...

with his arms occupies a space of three feet. The pike he carries [the sarissa] was earlier designed to be twenty four feet long ...

take along attendants and wives or concubines, and he used horses rather than the slower more cumbersome oxen for the carrying o ...

The orator seeks to arouse his countrymen to the dangers of Philip’s encroachment on Athenian and general Greek interests. In th ...

state and the treasury, was answerable to no one and able to respond to any situation with efficiency, singlemindedness and spee ...

If this analysis was correct, to reverse that national decline was hardly within the power of one individual. Nevertheless, the ...

In the year after Chaeronea, Philip called a conference of all the Greek states at Corinth and announced a decision to make war ...

Alexander the Great Alexander, then aged 23, succeeded Philip and was immediately faced with revolt on all fronts. He moved swif ...

FIGURE 20The conquests ofAlexander theGreatSource: Based on M. Grant, The Routledge Atlas ofClassical History , fifth edition,Ro ...

fastenings were so elaborately intertwined and coiled upon one another that their ends were hidden: in consequence Alexander did ...

capital. From Susa, in an act of generosity to the Athenians, he returned the bronze statues of Harmodius and Aristogeiton, seiz ...

Roxane, the daughter of a Baktrian noble Oxyartes. In due course she bore him a son, later killed at the age of eleven along wit ...

The principalsucessor-statesof Alexander werethose of the Seleucids,Lagids (Ptolemies)and Antigonids(Macedonia). THE HELLENISTIC ...

Macedonian household where the splendid royal tombs have recently been exca- vated, were important centres. On Alexander’s death ...

Onmainland Greece in the early third century there were political developments that indicate the limits of Macedonian power and ...