Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface 9
4. Abbreviations Used
5. A Note on Transcription 13
6. Maps 15
7. 1 The Athenians and their Allies or an Attic Empire? 1
8. Sources
9. 2 Literary Sources 17
10. 3 Epigraphic Sources 37
11. 4 Papyrological Sources 55
12. Settings
13. 5 Ruling the Waves: The Nautical Setting of the Attic Empire 77
14. 6 The Rise of the Athenian Empire: Hegemony and Inclusivity 101
15. 7 Between Rise and Fall: The Last Stage of the Athenian Empire 133
16. Society, Administration and Economy
17. 8 Elites, Democracy, and Empire in Fifth-Century Athens 153
18. 9 Administration and Communication 179
19. 10 The Athenian Army and Navy:The Military Wing of the Empire 197
20. 11 Athenian Settlements Abroad 217
21. 12 Tribute and Taxation 241
22. 13 ‘To Have the Consent of the Ruler of the Sea’: Athenian Trade Policies and their Effects 287
23. 14 Agriculture 307
24. Internal Mobility and External Relations
25. 15 Migration and Mobility: Out and About in the Attic Empire 343
26. 16 Peloponnesians and the Peloponnesian League 363
27. 17 Macedon 391
28. 18 The Western Mediterranean 413
29. 19 Greeks in the Black Sea 431
30. 20 Thrace and Thracians 453
31. 21 The Achaemenid Empire 473
32. Imperial Culture and Intellectual History
33. 22 The Athenian Empire on the Dramatic Stage 497
34. 23 The Intellectual Background of Athenian Imperialism 527
35. 24 The Significance of Persians as Geopolitical Opponents in the Emergence of the Athenian Empire 547
36. 25 The Attic Empire and the Athenian Past 575
37. 26 Religion and State Cult 605
38. Afterlives
39. 27 The Shadow of Empire: Imperial Echoes in the Second Athenian League 625
40. 28 The Athenian Empire in Post-Classical Antiquity 647
41. Literary Sources
42. Index of personal names
43. Index General
44. Index of places
45. Index of gods, mythological and fictional characters