Untersuchungen zur politischen Geschichte Athens im 3. Jahrhundert v. Chr. - HABICHT, Chr.,

KORTE INHOUD

'This work, by a leading authority on the political history of the Hellenistic world, represents the first phase in the replacement of W.S. Ferguson's excellent, but antiquated, 'Hellenistic Athens' by a work reflecting the advances made as a result in particular of the American excavations in the Agora. It is divided into a series of loosely connected chapters, the emphasis of which lies on the ill-documented period between 295 B.C. and the outbreak of the Chremonidean War. A chapter on the all too familiar problems of the chronology of the Athenian archons from the end of the War (261) to 230, and a brief excursus on some prosopographical matters complete the book. These studies are all marked by Habicht's usual forceful lucidity of thought and style and thoroughness of documentation and bibliography. With skill and learning he demolishes much accumulated myth, and shows clearly the true dimensions of the problem of reconstructing Athenian history in the earlier Hellnisitc period, as it now stands. (...) Th... Lees verder...

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