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THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO

THE AGE OF PERICLES

Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the production of classical Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open hostilities between the two greatest powers of ancient Greece. The Athenian statesman Pericles fostered where he did not initiate these events and Periclean Athens has represented for many the height of classical Athenian history. Although it is no longer fashionable to view Periclean Athens as a social or cultural paradigm, study of the history, society, art, and literature of mid-fifth-century Athens remains central to any understanding of Greek history. This Companion volume reveals the political, religious, economic, social, artistic, literary, intellectual, and military infrastructure that made the Age of Pericles possible. Previous volumes on subjects directly relevant to mid-fifth-century Athens (including the Cambridge Companions to Early Greek Philosophy and Greek Tragedy) have permitted an approach here that focuses on the historical factors that undergirded, characterized, and threatened Periclean Athens.

Loren J. Samons II is Professor and Chairman of Classical Studies at Boston University, where he received the Metcalf Award for excellence in teaching in 1998. He is the author of Whats Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship (2004), Empire of the Owl: Athenian Imperial Finance (2000), and, with Charles W. Fornara, Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles (1991). He has been a Visiting Senior Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens and has contributed to many journals, including Classical Quarterly, Historia, Arion, and Zeitschrift fr Papyrologie und Epigraphik.

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO

THE AGE OF PERICLES

Edited by

LOREN J. SAMONS II

Boston University

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The Cambridge companion to the Age of Pericles / edited by Loren J. Samons II.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-521-80793-7 (hardback)

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ISBN-13: 978-0-521-00389-6 (pbk.)

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1. Greece History Athenian supremacy, 479431 B.C. 2. Athens (Greece) History. I. Samons, Loren J. II. Title.

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CONTENTS

L. J. SAMONS II

P. J. RHODES

DEBORAH BOEDEKER

LISA KALLET

KURT A. RAAFLAUB

KENNETH LAPATIN

CYNTHIA PATTERSON

JEFFREY HENDERSON

J. P. SICKINGER

ROBERT W. WALLACE

R. SEALEY

J. E. LENDON

L. J. SAMONS II

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CONTRIBUTORS

DEBORAH BOEDEKER is Professor of Classics at Brown University and the author of Descent from Heaven: Images of Dew in Greek Poetry and Religion (Chico, CA: Scholars Press, 1984).

JEFFREY HENDERSON is Aurelio Professor of Greek and Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston University and General Editor of the Loeb Classical Library. His four-volume edition and translation of Aristophanes was published in the Loeb series (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 19982002).

LISA KALLET is Cawkwell Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, University College, Oxford, and author of Money and the Corrosion of Power in Thucydides (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001).

KENNETH LAPATIN is Assistant Curator of Antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California, and author of Chryselephantine Statuary in the Ancient Mediterranean World (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

J. E. LENDON is Professor of History at the University of Virginia and author of Soldiers and Ghosts: A History of Battle in Classical Antiquity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005).

CYNTHIA PATTERSON is Associate Professor of History at Emory University and the author of The Family in Greek History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).

KURT A. RAAFLAUB is David Herlihy University Professor, Professor of Classics and History, and Chair of the Program in Ancient Studies at Brown University. He is the author of The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004).

P. J. RHODES is Honorary Professor of Ancient History at the University of Durham and author of A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981; revised reprint, 1993).

L. J. SAMONS II is Professor and Chairman of Classical Studies at Boston University and author of Empire of the Owl: Athenian Imperial Finance, Historia Einzelschriften 142 (Stuttgart: Steiner, 2000).

R. SEALEY is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of The Athenian Republic (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1987).

J. P. SICKINGER is Associate Professor of Classics at the Florida State University and the author of Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999).

ROBERT W. WALLACE is Professor of Classics at Northwestern University and author of The Areopagos Council (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989).

ABBREVIATIONS

ABSA

Annual of the British School at Athens

AC

LAntiquit classique

AHB

Ancient History Bulletin

AJA

American Journal of Archaeology