The Story of Athens: The Fragments of the Local Chronicles of Attika

by Phillip Harding; Department Of

• ISBN13: 9780415338080
• ISBN10: 0415338085
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-12-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

A leading authority in the field, Phillip Harding here presents the very first English translations of the six Athenian writers known as the Atthitographers. In his vivid and detailed history, Harding examines the remaining fragments of these historical writers' work ? in chronological order ? and how these writings, dating from the fifth and fourth century BC, reveal an invaluable wealth of information about early Athenian history, legend, religion, customs and anecdotes. Harding also goes on to study how these histories of Athens and its people were the source for later surviving historians such as Plutarch and Diodorus. With the aid of linking text and detailed annotation, anyone with an interest in Athenian history, classical Greece need look no further.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Erechtheid Dynasty from Kekrops to Aegeus 1556-1234

The Remainder of the Regnal Period from Theseus to Kodros 1234-1069

The Period of Life-Archons and Ten-Year Archons from Medon to Kreon: 1069-683/2

Kreon to Solon: 683/2-594/3

Solon to Kleisthenes 594/3-508/7

The Fifth Century to the End of the Peloponnesian War

The Fourth Century to the Battle of Chaironeia

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