Autorentext

David M. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Greek History, Discipline of Classics and Ancient History, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and has published widely on Greek history. His most recent publications are Athenian Democracy at War (2019) and the edited The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux (2024).

Ian Worthington is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney, and has published extensively on Greek History and Greek oratory. His most recent publications are Macedonia Under the Argead Kings (2026), The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age with Major Michael Ferguson (2024), and The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome (2023).

Klappentext

This volume provides a new assessment of Athens' military capabilities and war efforts in the fourth century BC, highlighting the close connection between its democracy and military affairs.

Inhalt

General Introduction

Part 1. Warfare, Politics, and Economics

1 Democracy, Politics, and War in the Fourth Century

2 Rethinking Athenian Military Public Finance: Financial Strategies for War-Making in the Early Fourth Century

3 The Theorika in Its Social, Fiscal, and Discursive Context: Fighting Philip or Helping the Needy?

4 The Military Reforms of Fourth-Century Athens

Part 2. Military Branches

5 The Athenian Navy in the Fourth Century: Restoration, Transformation, Reformation

6 What to Do with the Thousand Hippeis after 404?: Debating Reform to the Athenian Cavalry in the Fourth Century

7 'Not Diminished, but Greater and Better': Athenian Hoplite Performance in the Fourth Century

8 Athenian Peripoloi

Part 3. Military Power and War Efforts

9 From the 'Sound of the Flute' to the 'Death of a City': Reflections on Athenian Poliorcetics from 404 to 322

10 The Revival of Athenian Hegemony in the Corinthian War

11 From the Cadmea to Chaeronea: The Second League as a Form of Athenian Imperialism

12 The Athenian War Effort Against Philip II of Macedonia

13 From Chaeronea to Lamia: A 'Shipwrecked State'?

Part 4. Popular Attitudes and the Military

14 Generals and Generalship in the Fourth-Century Orators

15 From Villain to Hero: Conon's Rehabilitation, Warfare, and Democracy

16 Military Values in Fourth-Century Tragedy