The School of History

, by Munn, Mark H.

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ISBN: 9780520236851 | 0520236858
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Copyright: 1/1/2003

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Fifth century Athenian history from the perspective of a contemporary of Socrates, taking in the whole spectrum of culture and politics.

List of Illustrations	p. x
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Maps	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
The Spirit of Democratic Athens, 510-415
The Past of Democratic Athens	p. 15
The Past and the Truth
The Origins of Democracy
Choral Songs and Tragedies
Praise in Song
Enacting the Immanent Past
Performance and Public
The Dead and the Living
Everyman's Past
Witnesses to the Past
The Aristocracy of Democratic Athens	p. 46
The Privileges of Empire
The Best of the Athenians
The Public Display of Private Arete
Prowess in War
The Impression of Power
The Best of the Greeks
Servants of the Athenian Democracy	p. 64
The Power of Numbers
Slaves of Slaves
Friendship with Foreigners and Loyalty to the Demos
The Sycophants
The Demagogues
The People's Money
The Tyranny of the Demos
The Sophists
The Speech-Writers
Victory, the Measure of Virtue
The Oracle Mongers
The Expertise of Syngrapheis
The Conspirators
The Crisis of Athens, 415-403
The Expulsion of Alcibiades, 415-413	p. 95
Alcibiades
Sicilian Ambitions
Antiphon the Sophist
Spoiling the Moment
Athens Turned Inside Out
The Conspiracy of the Mysteries
Alcibiades' Defense
The Destruction of Alcibiades
Hearing the Testimony of History
The Limits of Power
The Will of the Gods
Alcibiades in Flight
The Flight of the Birds
Rationalizing Oligarchy, 413-411	p. 127
On the Boundaries of Asia
Saviors and Phantoms
Sage Advice
The Ancestral Constitution
The Best Laid Plans
Desperate Straits
Moderation and Accommodation
A Procession of Victories, 411-408	p. 152
Victory at Cyzicus
Immutable Change
The Generals and the Men of Athens
Realizing Vision
Alcibiades Triumphant
Alcibiades and the Laws
Beloved of the Mother of the Gods
The Limits of Democratic Imperative, 408-405	p. 175
Lordship of Asia
The Eclipse of Alcibiades
Victory at Arginusae
The Trial of the Generals
Playing on Reason
Finding the Right Perspective
To Humor the Lion
Surrendering to Sparta, 405-404	p. 195
The Friendship of Cyrus
The Battle of Aegospotami
Conon, Cyprus, and the New King
The Siege of Athens
Negotiating With Sparta
Theramenes' Secret
The Surrender of Athens
The Agents of Oligarchy
Again, the Ancestral Constitution
Breaking the Back of the Democracy
Pulling Out the Roots of Empire
The Athenian Civil War, 404-403	p. 218
Freedom and Slavery
The Thirty "Establishers of the Laws"
Social Engineering
More Ancient Virtues
Those Who Are In and Those Who Are Out
Beating Out the Lion
The Return of the Exiles
War Between Piraeus and Athens
The Spartan Settlement
Resurrecting Athens, 403-395
The Laws of Athens, 403-400	p. 247
Sources
The Few and the Many
The Restoration of a Democracy
The Heroes of Piraeus
True
Athenians
Andocides and the Laws
The Work of the Nomothetai
The Laws of Athens
Eliminating Socrates, 401-399	p. 273
The Case Against Nicomachus
Amnesty and Remembrance
Ominous Reminders
Socrates' Offense
Athenian Democracy and History, 399-395	p. 292
A New Past for a New Beginning
A Passion for Books
Socrates and the Laws
Remembering the Spoken Word
The Account Compiled by Thucydides
Thucydides in Exile
Thucydides in Athens
Why Thucydides Wrote
The Unfinished Condition
The Beginnings of Posterity
Epigraphic Chronology	p. 331
Euripides' Helen and Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae	p. 333
Chronology of the Events of 410-406	p. 335
The Surrender of Athens and the Installation of the Thirty	p. 340
Abbreviations	p. 345
Notes	p. 347
Bibliography	p. 441
General Index	p. 469
Index Locorum	p. 495
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