Demosthenes and His Time : A Study in Defeat.
Title:
Demosthenes and His Time : A Study in Defeat.
Author:
Sealey, Raphael.
ISBN:
9780195359961
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (353 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Introduction: The Subject -- 1. The Crisis of 387/6 -- 2. The Athenians and Their Environment -- 3. Athens and the New League -- 4. Destabilization in the North -- 5. Before and After the Social War -- 6. War and Peace in the North -- 7. The Athenians Frustrated -- 8. The Athenians Defeated -- APPENDIX 1. The Transmission of the Demosthenic Corpus -- APPENDIX 2. Questions of Authenticity of Some Demosthenic Speeches -- APPENDIX 3. Autonomia -- APPENDIX 4. Dates in the Early Life of Demosthenes -- APPENDIX 5. Chronological Notes on the 360s -- APPENDIX 6. The Theoric Fund -- APPENDIX 7. Euboia 343-340 -- APPENDIX 8. The Chronology of the Scandal of Harpalos -- APPENDIX 9. The Athenian Calendars -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of Passages -- General Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- W -- X -- Z -- Map of Greece and the Aegean Area.
Abstract:
This book draws on a wide range of evidence to study the history of Athens from 386 to 322 B.C. Taking a sympathetic view of the Second Athenian League, Sealey focuses on the career of Demosthenes to provide important insights into Athenian politics and policies. Demosthenes experiencedrepeated setbacks in his early attempts at public activity, but found his mission as a statesman in the conflict with Macedon and subsequently became the leading man in Athens. Sealey rejects theories that assume programmatic divisions among Athenian statesmen into pro- and anti-Macedonians, andargues that all Athenians active in politics resented Macedonian ascendancy but recognized the necessity of accommodation to superior power. His account concludes with the defeat of Athens and its allies and the suicide of Demosthenes, presenting new insights not only into the life of Demosthenesand the turbulent years of his political career, but also the social and international factors bearing on Athenian political activity in general.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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