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The Fourth Century B.C.

Series The Cambridge Ancient History, Volume 6

Edited by D. M. Lewis, John Boardman, Simon Hornblower and M. Ostwald

Publication Date 1994

Hardback ISBN-10 0521233488

Hardback ISBN-13 9780521233484

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521233484

Overview

Volume VI of the new edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins with Sparta attempting to consolidate its leadership of mainland Greece and ends with the death of Alexander the Great after he had conquered the Persian Empire and marched far into India. It is correspondingly wide-ranging in its treatment of the politics and economy, not only of old Greece, but of the Near East and the western Mediterranean. The century also saw the continued development of Classical Greek art and the moulding of Greek prose as an uniquely flexible means of expression. The formation of the great philosophical schools assured to Athens in her political decline a long future as a cultural centre, and established patterns of thought which dominated western civilization for two thousand years.

For more details of the print book, and how to buy it online, please see The Fourth Century B.C. in the Cambridge University Press online catalogue.

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The Cambridge Ancient History Vol. 6: The Fourth Century B.C.

Frontmatter

Sources and their uses by Simon Hornblower

Sparta as victor by D. M. Lewis

Persia by Simon Hornblower

The Corinthian War by Robin Seager

Sicily, 413–368 B.C. by D. M. Lewis

The King's Peace and the Second Athenian Confederacy by Robin Seager

Thebes in the 360s B.C. by J. Roy

Asia Minor by Simon Hornblower

Mesopotamia, 482–330 B.C. by Matthew W. Stolper

Judah by Hayim Tadmor

Cyprus and Phoenicia by F. G. Maier

Egypt, 404–332 B.C. by Alan B. Lloyd

Carthage from the battle at Himera to Agathocles' invasion (480–308 B.C.) by G. Ch. Picard

South Italy in the fourth century B.C. by Nicholas Purcell

Celtic Europe by D. W. Harding

Illyrians and North-west Greeks by N. G. L. Hammond

Thracians and Scythians by Zofia H. Archibald

The Bosporan Kingdom by John G. F. Hind

Mediterranean communications by L. Casson

Society and economy by M. M. Austin

The polis and the alternatives by P. J. Rhodes

The Growth of Schools and the Advance of Knowledge by M. Ostwald and John Lynch

Medicine by G. E. R. Lloyd

Greek art: Classical to Hellenistic by J. J. Pollitt

Greek agriculture in the classical period by Alison Burford

Warfare by Y. Garlan

Dion and Timoleon by H. D. Westlake

Macedon and north-west Greece by J. R. Ellis

Macedonian hegemony created by J. R. Ellis

Alexander the Great Part 1: The events of the reign by A. B. Bosworth

Alexander the Great Part 2: Greece and the conquered territories by A. B. Bosworth

Epilogue by Simon Hornblower

Chronological Table

Bibliography

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