Title: Politics and the Athenians : essays on Athenian history and historiography /
Authors: Frost, Frank J., 1929-
Publisher: E. Kent,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Athens (Greece) History.; Athens (Greece) History Sources.; Athens (Greece) Historiography.; Athens (Greece) Politics and government.; Athènes (Grèce) Historiographie.; Athènes (Grèce) Histoire.; Athènes (Grèce) Politique et gouvernement.
Contents: Attic literacy and ths Solonian seisachtheia -- Aspects of early Athenian citizenship -- The rural demes of Attica -- Solon pornoboskos and Aphrodite pandemos -- Solon and Salamis, Peisistratos and Nisaia -- Plutarch and Theseus -- Toward a history of Peisistratid Athens -- The "ominous" birth of Peisistratos -- Peisistratos, the cults, and the unification of Attica -- Faith, authority, and history in Early Athens -- Politics in early Athens -- Tribal politics and the civic state -- The Athenian military before Cleisthenes -- The dubious origin of the "marathon" -- Themistocles' place in Athenian politics -- Themistocles and Mnesiphilus -- Troizen and the Persian War -- A note on Xerxes at Salamis -- Thucydides I.137.2 -- Some documents in Plutarch's Lives -- Aristodemos -- Phylarchus, Fragment 76 -- Pericles and Dracontides -- Pericles, Thucydides, son of Melesias, and Athenian politics before the War -- A Frank Frost bibliography.