1st Edition
Waging War in Fourth-Century Athens New Appraisals
List of Contributors i
Preface
Notes on Style
Abbreviations
General Introduction
Paul Cartledge
Part 1. Warfare, Politics, and Economics
1 Democracy, Politics, and War in the Fourth Century
Lynette Mitchell
2 Rethinking Athenian Military Public Finance: Financial Strategies for War-Making in the Early Fourth Century
Annabel Florence
3 The Theorika in Its Social, Fiscal, and Discursive Context: Fighting Philip or Helping the Needy?
Dorothea Rohde
4 The Military Reforms of Fourth-Century Athens
David M. Pritchard
Part 2. Military Branches
5 The Athenian Navy in the Fourth Century: Restoration, Transformation, Reformation
Vincent Gabrielsen
6 What to Do with the Thousand Hippeis after 404?: Debating Reform to the Athenian Cavalry in the Fourth Century
Jérémy Clément
7 ‘Not Diminished, but Greater and Better’: Athenian Hoplite Performance in the Fourth Century
Adam Schwartz
8 Athenian Peltasts
Nicholas V. Sekunda
Part 3. Military Power and War Efforts
9 From the ‘Sound of the Flute’ to the ‘Death of a City’: Reflections on Athenian Poliorcetics from 404 to 322
J. Baldacini
10 The Revival of Athenian Hegemony in the Corinthian War
Marie Durnerin
11 From the Cadmea to Chaeronea: The Second League as a Form of Athenian Imperialism
Sviatoslav Dmitriev
12 The Athenian War Effort Against Philip II of Macedonia
Ian Worthington
13 From Chaeronea to Lamia: A ‘Shipwrecked State’?
Lara O’Sullivan
Part 4. Popular Attitudes and the Military
14 Generals and Generalship in the Fourth-Century Orators
Joseph Roisman
15 From Villain to Hero: Conon’s Rehabilitation, Warfare, and Democracy
Aggelos Kapellos
16 Military Values in Fourth-Century Tragedy
D.M. Carter
Index
Biography
David M. Pritchard is Associate Professor of Greek History, Discipline of Classics and Ancient History, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and has published widely on Greek history. His most recent publications are Athenian Democracy at War (2019) and the edited The Athenian Funeral Oration: After Nicole Loraux (2024).
Ian Worthington is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney, and has published extensively on Greek History and Greek oratory. His most recent publications are Macedonia Under the Argead Kings (2026), The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age with Major Michael Ferguson (2024), and The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome (2023).
