Alexander and Greek Athletics, in Fact and in Fiction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. From the Aion Plutonios of the Ptolemies to the Saeculum Frugiferum of the Roman Emperors 1
5. Mycenaean Decline – Some Problems and Thoughts 31
6. A Document of Artaxerxes IV? 40
7. Alexander and Ammon 51
8. Alexander and Greek Athletics, in Fact and in Fiction 76
9. Thermopylai Revisited and some Topographical Notes on Marathon and Plataiai 89
10. The Ionian Name 106
11. Bathrooms and Lustral Chambers 110
12. Cleitarchus and Diodorus 17 126
13. The Meaning and Significance of the Reported Speech of Phrynichus in Thucydides 8,48 147
14. Minoan Town-Shrines? 158
15. Mycenaeans at Thera: Some Reflections on the Paintings from the West House 173
16. A Cypro-Mycenaean III C: 1 Amphora from Kition 192
17. Athens: Between Tyranny and Democracy 199
18. Tragödien bei Herodot? 224
19. Poets and Politicians in Fifth-Century Greece 231
20. Herodotus in Athens? 246
21. Corinth and Athens before the Peloponnesian War 266
22. List of Illustrations 270
23. Illustrations 275