The Cambridge Ancient History

The Fifth Century B.C.

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Hardcover | 26 March 1992 | Edition Number 2

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The fifth century BC was not only the first Classic age of European civilisation. It was the first and last period before the Romans in which great political and military power was located in the same place as cultural importance. This volume therefore is more narrowly focused geographically than its predecessors and successors, and hardly strays beyond Greece. Athens is at the centre of the picture, both politically and culturally, but events and achievements elsewhere are assessed as carefully as the nature of our sources allows. Two series of narrative chapters, one on the growth of the Athenian empire and the development of Athenian democracy, the other on the Peloponnesian War which brought them down, are divided by a series of studies in which the artistic and literary achievements of the fifth century are described. This new edition has been completely replanned and rewritten in order to reflect the advances in scholarship and changes in perspective which have been taking place in the sixty years since the publication of its predecessor.

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List of maps	p. ix
List of text-figures	p. x
Preface	p. xiii
Sources, chronology, method	p. 1
Greece after the Persian Wars	p. 15
The Delian League to 449 B.C.	p. 34
The foundation of the League	p. 34
The early history of the League	p. 40
The ambitions of the Athenian democrats	p. 49
The mid-century crisis	p. 54
The Athenian revolution	p. 62
Athens after the Persian Wars	p. 62
The reform of the Areopagus	p. 67
Periclean democracy	p. 77
The impact of Athenian democracy	p. 87
Mainland Greece, 479-451 B.C.	p. 96
From 479 to 461	p. 96
The 'First Peloponnesian War'	p. 111
The Thirty Years' Peace	p. 121
The Peace of Callias	p. 121
The empire established	p. 127
446 B.C.	p. 133
After the Peace	p. 138
Sicily, 478-431 B.C.	p. 147
Sicily in the age of Hiero	p. 149
The fall of the tyrannies	p. 154
The Sicel movement	p. 161
Democracy and culture at Syracuse and Acragas	p. 165
Greek culture, religion and society in the fifth century B.C.
Art: Archaic to Classical	p. 171
Style and iconology	p. 171
Artists and patrons	p. 180
Classical cities and sanctuaries	p. 184
Rebuilding in Athens and Attica	p. 206
Panhellenic cults and panhellenic poets	p. 223
The panhellenic festivals in the fifth century B.C.	p. 223
The religious character of the games	p. 226
The order and development of the festivals	p. 229
The athletes: background and careers	p. 232
Poets and patrons	p. 237
The poems	p. 239
Aftermath	p. 243
Athenian cults and festivals	p. 245
Continuity and change	p. 245
Note on the sources	p. 248
The cycle of the year	p. 249
Polis religion: cults defining identity	p. 256
Divination	p. 262
The Mysteries	p. 264
Private piety	p. 265
Athenian religion and literature	p. 268
Introduction	p. 268
Tragedy	p. 272
Comedy	p. 282
Society and economy	p. 287
Athens as a cultural centre	p. 306
The economic and social background	p. 306
Religion and empire	p. 312
The visual arts	p. 314
Literature	p. 323
Philosophy, rhetoric and science	p. 338
The impact on Athens	p. 351
The Archidamian War	p. 370
The causes of the war	p. 370
War	p. 380
The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition	p. 433
The failure of the Peace	p. 433
Mantinea and the aftermath	p. 437
Athenian policy and politics	p. 440
Melos	p. 444
Sicily: the first phase	p. 446
Sicily: Gylippus and the turn of the tide	p. 453
Sicily: the final disaster	p. 460
The Spartan resurgence	p. 464
War in Ionia and Persian intervention	p. 464
The beginnings of the Athenian revolution	p. 471
The Four Hundred	p. 474
The Five Thousand replace the Four Hundred	p. 479
The Hellespont campaigns and the return of Alcibiades	p. 481
Lysander and the collapse of Athens	p. 489
Epilogue	p. 496
Chronological notes	p. 499
Chronological table	p. 506
Bibliography
Abbreviations	p. 514
General	p. 518
Chronology	p. 522
Sources	p. 523
Historiography	p. 523
Inscriptions	p. 527
Coinage	p. 530
Athens: internal affairs	p. 531
The Athenian empire	p. 535
The Greek states	p. 539
The Peloponnesian War	p. 541
Sicily	p. 543
General	p. 543
Hiero and Theron	p. 544
Fall of tyrannies, constitutional history	p. 544
Sicel movement	p. 545
Syracuse and Tyrrhenian affairs	p. 546
Coinage	p. 546
Art and architecture	p. 547
Literature and philosophy	p. 554
Religion and festivals	p. 557
Society and economy	p. 561
Index	p. 567
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