Title Aeschines and Athenian politics / Edward M. Harris

Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 233 pages) Contents 1. Whom to Believe? -- 2. Family, Early Career, and Start in Politics. Family Background. Early Career. Aeschines' Entry into Politics -- 3. Getting to Know Philip. Athens and Macedon to 348. The Decision to Begin Negotiations with Philip. The First Embassy -- 4. Peace at Last. The First Embassy Returns to Athens. The Meetings of the Assembly on Elaphebolion 18, 19, and 25 -- 5. The End of the Third Sacred War. The Second Embassy. The Meeting of the Council after the Return of the Second Embassy and the Meeting of the Assembly on Skirophorion 16. The Surrender of Phocis. The Prosecution of Timarchus -- 6. Entre Deux Guerres -- 7. Decline and Exit. From the Siege of Byzantium to the Defeat at Chaeronea. Waiting for the Final Performance -- 8. Conclusion -- App. 1: Was Aeschines Ever an Associate of Aristophon? -- App. 2: The Chronology of the Olynthus Campaigns and Philip's Peace Offers -- App. 3: Athenian Embassies to the Greeks Between 348 and 346 -- App. 4. When did the Spondophoroi Report the Phocian Refusal? -- App. 5. The Thracian Fortresses -- App. 6. The Date of Philocrates' Speech in Favor of Peace with Philip -- App. 7. Aeschines and the Third Embassy -- App. 8. The Chronology of Events from 344 to 340 -- App. 9. The Legal Grounds for Aeschines' Objection to Antiphon's Arrest -- App. 10. Two Recent Views of Aeschines' Prosecution of Ctesiphon in 330 -- App. 11. Philip's Relationship with the Thessalians Summary * The first full-length study of the Athenian politician Aeschines Though often overshadowed by his famous rival Demosthenes, Aeschines plays a major role in the decisive events that marked the rise of Macedonian power in Greece and thus marked the transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic period Analysis Greece History, B.C.479 - B.C.323 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-224) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Philip II, King of Macedonia, 382 B.C.-336 B.C. Aeschines. Demosthenes. SUBJECT Aeschines fast Demosthenes fast Philip II, King of Macedonia, 382 B.C.-336 B.C. fast Philippe II (roi de Macédoine ; 0382?-0336 av. J.-C.) -- Thèses et écrits académiques. ram Eschine, (0389-0314? av. J.-C.) -- Thèses et écrits académiques. ram Démosthène, (0384-0322 av. J.-C.) -- Thèses et écrits académiques. ram Subject Democracy -- History HISTORY -- Ancient. Democracy Politics and government Politieke situatie. Démocratie -- Grèce -- Athènes (Grèce) -- Thèses et écrits académiques. SUBJECT Greece -- History -- Macedonian Expansion, 359-323 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057087 Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government Subject Greece Greece -- Athens Macédoine -- Antiquité -- Thèses et écrits académiques. Athènes (Grèce) -- Politique et gouvernement -- Antiquité -- Thèses et écrits académiques. Grèce -- 359-323 av. J.-C. (Expansion de la Macédoine) -- Thèses et écrits académiques. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 94004105 ISBN 019535950X 9780195359503 9780195359503 9780195082852 0195082850 1280443464 9781280443466 1601299281 9781601299284

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