Archaic Times to the End of the Peloponnesian War

by Edited and translated by Charles W. Fornara

• ISBN13: 9780521250191
• ISBN10: 0521250196
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1983-05-31
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias, scholia, and similar sources. The material, much of it translated by him for the first time, covers not only events of national significance - wars and treaties, the founding of towns and colonies, the dedication of temples - but also presents such records of daily life as ration lists, wine trade regulations, inventories of treasure, drinking songs, and financial records. The documents are accompanied by a brief commentary, which is basically intended to clarify obscurities in the text. An extensive glossary and indexes explain obscure terms of Greek social and governmental structure and permit detailed prosopographical analysis. This book will be welcomed by students and teachers of ancient history.

Table of Contents

Preface to the second edition

Volume editor's introduction

Abbreviations

Ancient chronology

The date of Lykourgos of Sparta

The establishment of the Olympic Games

Pheidon of Agros

The foundation of Croton

The Lelantine War

The use of the word tyrant

The foundation of Tarentum by the Partheniai of Sparta

Orthagoras, Tyrant of Sicyon

Law of the city of Dreros (Crete)

Tyrtaeus of Sparta, the Messenian Wars, and the Great Rhetra

Spartan treatment of helots

Memorial to a Locrain proxenos at Corcyra

Drakon's law on homicide

The first sacred War

Battos, the founder of Cyrene

The foundation of Cyrene

Law from Chios

Gravestone of Phanodikos of Prokonnesos

Epitaph of the Corinthians who died at Salamis

The Athenian naukrariai

The Athenian archon list

Greek mercenaries in Egyptian service

Alliance between Elis and Heraia in Western Arcadia

The establishment of the Panathenaic festival

Spratan treaty with Tegea

Kroisos' gifts to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Treaty between Sybaris and the Serdaioi

The wives of Hippias and Hipparchos, the sons of Peisistratos of Athens

The nature of Peisistratos' rule

Polykrates, Tyrant of Samos

Law from a Locrain community settling new territory

A list of Dareios' subjects

Letter of Dareios

An argive rule about the use of sacred treasures

Dedication of peisistratos son of Hippias

A Spartan dedication

The liberation of Athens

The rebuilding of the Temple at Delphi by the Alkmeonidai

Ostracism at Athens

Epigrams celebrating an Athenian victory over Boeotia and Chalcis

Dedication of the Athenian portico at Delphi

Athenian klerouchy at Salamis

Rations for Ionian mothers working at Persepolis

An Ionian contractor at Persepolis

Law of the Eastern (Hypocnemidian) Locrians about their colony at Naupactus

The Persian cavalry at Marathon

Dedication of Kallimachos

Athenian thank-offering for Marathon

Athenian epigrams on the Persian wars

The Greek embassy to Gelon

A supplication by Corinthian women during Xerxes' war

Gelon's thank-offering for the victory at Himera

The decree of Themistokles

Contribution of the Naxians to the war effort against the Persians

Oath of the Athenians taken betore the Battle of Plataea

The number of the Athenian dead at Plataca

Greek thank-offering for victory in the Persian War

Megarian memorial of the Persian War

Pausanias, regent of Sparta, and his actions after the victory at Plataea

Attempts at colonizing Ennea Hodoi in Thrac

Regulations of the Teians

Hieron's thank-offering for the victory at Cumae

Themistokles' ostracism and flight to Persia

Political expulsions from Miletus

The Messenian Revolt

Athenian relations with Phaselis

The ban against Arthmios of Zeleia

A Halicarnassian law concerning disputed property

Regulations imposed by the Athenians on Erythrae

Egypt rebels from Persia

Spartan aid to Thebes

Perikles' oratory

Athenian regulation of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Kimon's return from ostracism

Samians fight in Egypt

Casualty list of the Erechtheid tribe of Athens

The building of the Long Walls and the Middle Wall at Athens

Thank-offering by the Lacedaemonians for the victory at Tanagra

Alliance of Athens and Egesta

Athenian compact involving the Delphic Amphictyony or Phocis

Dedication of Athenian knights

Tolmides' circumnavigation of the Peloponnesus

The first tribute quota list of 454/3 B.C.

Limitation of Athenian citizenship

Treaty between Oianthia and Chalcion, and law of Chaleion

The civil laws of Gortyn

Relations between Argos, Criossus, and Tylissos

Nemesis and the accounts of her temple in the Attic deme of Rhamnous

A victory of

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