Synopses & Reviews
Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History covers years that include the rise of Macedon and the campaigns of Alexander the Great. The volume treats the politics and economy not only of old Greece but also of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. It has sections on the continued development of classical art and the formation of the philosophical schools in Athens. This second edition, completely replanned and rewritten, is a full and reliable guide to the advances in scholarship of the past sixty-five years.
Table of Contents
1. Sources and their uses Simon Hornblower; 2. Sparta as victor D. M. Lewis; 3. Persia Simon Hornblower; 4. The Corinthian war Robin Seager; 5. Sicily, 413 368 BC D. M. Lewis; 6. The Kingâs Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy Robin Seager; 7. Thebes in the 360s BC J. Roy; 8a. Asia Minor Simon Hornblower; 8b. Mesopotamia, 482 330 BC Matthew W. Stolper; 8c. Judah Hayim Tadmor; 8d. Cyprus and Phoenicia F. G. Maier; 8e. Egypt, 404 337 BC Alan B. Lloyd; 9a. Carthage from the battle at Himera to Agathoclesâinvasion, 480 308 BC G. Ch. Picard; 9b. South Italy in the fourth century BC Nicholas Purcell; 9c. Celtic Europe D. W. Harding; 9d. Illyrians and North-west Greeks N. G. L. Hammond; 9e. Thracians and Scythians Zofia H. Archibald; 9f. The Bosporan kingdom John Hind; 9g. Communications L. Casson; 10. Society and economy M. M. Austin; 11. The polis and the alternatives P. J. Rhodes; 12a. The growth of schools and the advance of knowledge M. Ostwald and John P. Lynch; 12b. Medicine G. E. R. Lloyd; 12c. Greek art: Classical to Hellenistic J. J. Pollitt; 12d. Greek agriculture in the Classical period Alison Burford; 12e. Warfare Y. Garlan; 13. Dion and Timoleon H. D. Westlake; 14. Macedon and North-west Greece J. R. Ellis; 15. Macedonian hegemony created J. R. Ellis; 16. Alexander the Great: part 1 the events of the reign A. B. Bosworth; 17. Alexander the Great: part 2 Greece and the conquered territories A. B. Bosworth; Epilogue Simon Hornblower; Chronological table; Bibliography.