Athenian Imperialism
4,613 Followers
Recent papers in Athenian Imperialism
The empire that the Athenians established in the years after 478 BC was an entirely new phenomenon in the history of Greece, and the basis of much of the brilliant development of Athenian culture in the fifth century. Its growth and... more
No comedies are preserved from 413 or 412 BC. But we do have two — Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Thesmophoriazusae — that were performed in 411. The plot of Lysistrata is overtly political. Scholars have nonetheless found it difficult to... more
This paper [in Dutch] questions whether it is justified to earmark classical Athens as "The Age of Pericles". It offers a short overview of what the sources have to offer on the life and deeds of the statesman and shows how the ancients... more
Pericles has had the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. “Periclean” Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military... more
Scholars have disagreed about whether the Great Dionysia was celebrated in 404 bce, despite the grim circumstances in Athens on the eve of the city’s surrender to Sparta. This article reconsiders the problem and reviews the positive... more
It is well known that some ancient Greek authors linked the development and persistence of democracy in a polis to her fleet. Two factors for this connection are named by the sources: an internal one – the dependence of a... more
"Η ιστορική εξέλιξη του πολιτεύματος της αρχαίας πόλεως των Αθηνών μέχρι την κλασσική εποχή. Συμβολή στην ιστορία των πολιτειακών θεσμών και της μνημειακής τοπογραφίας των πόλεων της αρχαίας Ελλάδας".
This article aims to explain in a theoretical way, but with practical historical examples the complex notion of informal imperialism. First analyzing imperialism(s) and colonialism as a whole, it will then try to caracterize and... more
The purpose of my dissertation is to analyse the negative comments concerning Pericles; the 5th Century BCE Athenian statesman and general. This will involve an assessment of both ancient and modern writers. It will include an exploration... more
Thirty years after Xerxes invaded Greece, the Achaemenid Persian Empire ended its long war with Athens. For the next four decades, the Persians tolerated Athenian control of their former tributaries, the Ionian Greek cities of western... more
This article provides an in-depth analysis of Gorgias's Funeral Oration. The chapter shows that Gorgias’s Epitaphios was most likely composed and disseminated at some point in the last quarter of the fifth century; that the text was... more
Τελική εργασία για το μάθημα "Φροντιστήριο Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Ιστορίας" (ΙΑΕ 603), με διδάσκοντα τον κο. Ιωάννη Ξυδόπουλο. Αριστοτέλειο Πανεπιστήμιο Θεσσαλονίκης, Εαρινό Εξάμηνο 2019.
Nessuno più di Aristotele ha studiato la democrazia ateniese. Di quella che è stata la forma storica più rilevante dell’idea democratica Aristotele ha voluto comprendere l’evoluzione, la storia: perciò ha pensato il confronto, in... more
This chapter sets Heraclitus and his work in the historical context of the Ionian revolt (499 - 494 B.C.).The combined external evidence and the ipsissima verba of Heraclitus lead to the conclusion that the book of Heraclitus was not... more
This is the (full text) Romanian translation of my "Stadt in Angst" (recent English edition "Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens. Religion and Politics...")
Democracy has never been more popular. It is successfully practiced today in a myriad of different ways by people across virtually every cultural, religious or socio-economic context. The forty-five essays collected in this companion... more
Vincent Azoulay, Περικλής. Η Αθηναϊκή ∆ηµοκρατία υπό τη δοκιµασία του µεγάλου ανδρός (µετάφραση: ∆ηµήτρης ∆ηµακόπουλος), εκδ. Πόλις, Αθήνα 2015, σσ. 391. Η εικόνα του Περικλή, όπως είναι ευρύτερα γνωστή στη δηµόσια ιστορία, προβάλλεται... more
Athens was a city of the written word. The public bodies of Athens and Attica and individual residents inscribed more words on stone than the citizens of any other Greek city. There are well over 20,000 Attic inscriptions on stone, and... more
Marek Węcowski, “The growth of Athens”: Herodotus, Thucydides and an aspect of the Athenian ideology of the fifth century B.C. The study begins with an analysis of the Socles episode (V 90-92), the most extensive of Herodotean speeches... more
The choice made by Themistocles to meet Xerxes remains an enigma for most historians. Why did this brilliant strategist, who defeated the imperial armies of Xerxes at Salamis and was a fervent defender of a workers’ democracy rather than... more
Fourth-century Athenian orators of epitaphioi logoi and other Athenian panegyric attempt to portray fifth-century tragedy as fundamentally encomiastic of Athens. This is borne out by the rhetorical reception of two ‘epitaphioi mythoi’,... more
Aristophanic comedy combines the materials of popular fantasy with keen, well-targeted satire and criticism of the major political issues of the Athenian state. The Birds can be read as an open parable which illustrates caustically the... more
The Xanthos stele, a multilingual Lycian dynastic monument of the late 5th century BCE, testifies to the importance of diplomatic interaction between Xanthos’ rulers and Achaemenid Persian administrators in western Anatolia. Yet the... more
The military strategy chosen by Pericles in 431 B.C. was also determined by the general principle of avoidance of unnecessary risks and casualties, even though this choice required spending more money, goods, and time (as Pericles says in... more
The present study examines section five of Poroi and Xenophon’s proposal to restore the reputation of Athens. After outlining his plan for ‘justly’ supplying the dēmos with sufficient sustenance in Poroi 1-4, section 5 addresses the... more
This paper discusses two important inscriptions for the history of the Athenian Empire, the Chalkis decree of 446/5 (or 424/3?) BC (IG I3 40) and the tribute reassessment decree (“Thoudippos’ decree”) of 425/4 BC (IG I3 71). Based on... more
Кузьмин Ю.Н., Макарова О.М. Алексей Егорович Паршиков (1940–1984): жизнь и смерть антиковеда в городе на Волге // Советский ландшафт древней ойкумены: отечественная наука о древнем Востоке и античности в 1920–1980-е гг. / Отв. ред. И.А.... more
The position of Damastion, a Greek colony founded by the fugitives from Aegina and Mende shortly after 420 BC somewhere in Illyria near the abundant silver mines (Strabo 7.7.8 and 8.6.16), has still not been established with certainty. An... more
Nel mio elaborato ho voluto focalizzare l'attenzione sulla figura storica di Ducezio nei rapporti tra le popolazioni sicule e la città di Siracusa nel V secolo A.C.. A questo tipo di studio mi ha spinto la volontà di comprendere meglio... more