Ancient Greece: Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Socrates(C.800-399 Bc) Book

	Preface
	List of Tables and Maps
	Glossary
	Some Useful Definitions
1	Colonization	1
	The Delphic Oracle	3
	The Oikistes	4
	Mother-cities and their Colonies	5
	The Colonization of the West: Italy and Sicily	7
	The Black Sea and Propontis	12
	Spartan Colonization	15
	The Colonization of Thasos by Paros	18
	The Greeks at Cyrene	20
	The Greeks in Egypt: Traders and Mercenaries	25
	Greeks and Native Populations	28
2	Tyrants and Tyranny	31
	Tyranny at Sicyon: the Orthagorids 656/5?-556/5?	34
	Tyranny at Corinth: the Kypselids c. 658-c. 585	37
	Theagenes and Tyranny in Megara, c. 640	42
	Kylon's Attempted Tyranny at Athens	43
	Tyranny at Mytilene	45
	Polykrates of Samos	48
	Polykrates' Patronage of the Arts	51
	The Sicilian Tyrants	53
	Tyrants and the Panhellenic Games	55
	Tyrants and Public Works	56
	The Spartan Opposition to Tyranny	57
	Thucydides and Aristotle on Tyranny	58
3	The Law-Givers: Drakon and Solon	61
	Drakon the Law-Giver	63
	Poverty and Inequality in Attica before Solon	66
	Solon and his Background	69
	The Seisachtheia	71
	Solon's Constitutional Reforms	74
	Solon's Social Legislation	80
	Solon on Trade and Agriculture	82
	Solon's 'Apodemia' and the Dating of his Reforms	85
	Reactions to Solon's Legislation	87
	Solon and Tyranny	89
4	Peisistratos and His Sons	91
	The Three Parties	93
	Peisistratos' First Tyranny	94
	Peisistratos' Second Tyranny	96
	Peisistratos in Exile	98
	Peisistratos Returns to Power for the Third Time	99
	Peisistratos as Tyrant	102
	Peisistratos' Religious Policy	104
	Peisistratos' Family	104
	The Reign of the Peisistratidai	107
	The Tyrants and Public Works	111
	The Assassination of Hipparchos	112
	The Tyranny becomes Harsher	114
	The Overthrow of the Tyranny by the Spartans	116
	The Cult of the Tyrannicides	119
	Drinking Songs in Praise of the Tyrannicides	121
5	Kleisthenes the Reformer	123
	Kleisthenes, Isagoras and Kleomenes	125
	Tribes, Boule and Strategia	129
	Ostracism	132
	Demes	140
6	Sparta	147
	Lykourgos 'the Law-Giver'	149
	The Spartan Ethos	151
	The Spartan Constitution	157
	Spartan Kingship	159
	Aristotle's Criticisms of the Constitution	164
	Community Life in Sparta	166
	Spartan Foreign Affairs	169
	The Spartan Economy and View of Money	171
	Kleomenes: the 'Mad' Spartan King	173
	Later Views of the Spartans	179
7	The Persian Wars	181
	The Ionian Revolt	184
	Marathon, 490	187
	Xerxes' Campaigns	194
	Greece Prepares for the Attack	195
	Thermopylai and Artemision	199
	Salamis	202
	Plataea	210
8	The Delian League and the Pentekontaetia	219
	The Origins of the Delian League	222
	The Aftermath of the Persian Wars	228
	Constitutional Change in Athens	231
	Athenian Military Campaigns	233
	The First Peloponnesian War	236
	Perikles 'the Olympian'	240
	The Tribute	245
	Athens and her Allies	246
9	The Peloponnesian War and its Aftermath	251
	The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War	253
	The Archidamian War, 431-21	254
	The Tribute in the Peloponnesian War	264
	The Sicilian Expedition and its Aftermath	272
	The Fall of Athens	281
	The Rule of the Thirty Tyrants	283
	Socrates and the 'New Education'	284
10	The Polis: The Greek City-State	294
	Athens: 'the Violet-Crowned City'	296
	The Workings of Athenian Democracy	301
	Citizenship	308
	City-States and their Laws	311
	Leagues, Unions and Federations	315
	Trade and Commerce	317
11	Labour: Slaves, Serfs and Citizens	325
	Enslavement and the Slave Trade	327
	Slaves: their Occupations and Training	330
	Slave Prices	332
	Slaves in War	333
	The Legal Position of Slaves	335
	Metics	338
	Helots, Perioikoi and Serfs	343
	Citizen Labour	346
	The Dramatic Slave	350
12	Religion in the Greek World	354
	The Eleusinian Mysteries	356
	Asklepios the Healer	361
	The Olympian Religion and its Critics	363
	Heroes	365
	Divination: Omens and Oracles	367
	Festivals	370
	Sanctuaries and Cult Regulations	372
	Death & Funeral Customs	373
	Women and their Religious Role	376
	Myrrhine, Priestess of Athena Nike	377
	Personal Piety	380
	The Greeks and their Identity	382
13	Women, Sexuality, and the Family	383
	Sappho of Lesbos	385
	Early Moralizers and Misogynists	387
	Spartan Women and Families	391
	The 'Historical' Woman	397
	Inscriptional Evidence	401
	The Legal Status of Women	405
	The Working Woman: at Home and Abroad	413
	Women in Greek Drama	417
	Homosexuality and Pederasty	423
	Prostitution	433
	Epilogue	440
14	The Ancient Sources	441
	Logographers and Historians	446
	Biography	455
	Geography	456
	Drama	457
	Lyric and Elegiac	458
	Political Philosophy	460
	Orators	460
	Chronological Table	462
	Bibliography	464
	Index of Ancient Sources	520
	General Index	526
	Genealogical Tables	536
	Maps	540