The Athenian Agora: Excavations in the Heart of Classical Athens Book

	General Editor's foreword	7
	Preface	9
1	Introduction	14
2	Before the Agora	19
	The Prehistoric Background	19
	The Agora Area in the Neolithic Period	24
	The Bronze Age	25
	The Dark Ages and the Geometric Period	27
3	The Archaic Agora	35
	Athens in the 6th Century	35
	Solon	38
	The Athenian Tyrants: Peisistratos and His Sons	39
	The Constitutional Reforms of Kleisthenes	48
	Marathon and Ostracism	57
	The Persian Sack of 480 BC	59
4	The Classical Agora	61
	Historical Background	61
	Kimonian Athens	66
	Periklean Athens and the Rebuilding of Sanctuaries	77
	The Peloponnesian War and Its Aftermath	87
	Public Buildings of the Athenian Democracy	90
	Private Industry and Commerce	135
	Private Houses	148
	Recovery After 400 BC	150
5	Macedon and the Hellenistic period	153
	Macedonian Rule: Demetrios Poliorcetes	162
	The 3rd Century BC: Civil Wars	166
	The 2nd Century BC: Recovery	168
6	The Roman period	181
	The Herulian Sack of Athens in AD 267	197
	The 4th Century AD: Alaric and the Visigoths	198
	The Slavic Invasion	212
	Epilogue	215
	Chronological table	218
	Ancient passages cited or translated	220
	Bibliography	221
	List of illustrations	224
	Index	227