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The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

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by Ober, Josiah

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  INDEX

  Note: Figures, maps, and tables are indicated by f, m, and t, respectively, following page numbers. Definitions of key terms are indicated by page numbers in bold type.

  Academy, 247, 282

  accountability, 164, 167, 174

  Acemoglu, Daron, 5

  Achaea, 242

  Achaean League, 274, 308–9

  Acharnai, 162

  Ada, 298

  Aegean Greek world, 225m, 265m

  Aegina, 198

  Aeneas “the Tactician,” 249, 287, 326

  Aeschylus, 206

  Aetolia, 242

  Aetolian League, 308–9

  Agathocles, 300–301

  Age of Expansion, 132–37, 134m

  Agesilaus, 229

  aggregate growth, 81–84, 98

  aggregate welfare, 115

  Agis III, King of Sparta, 299

  agriculture: climatic conditions for, 25, 27; as factor in emergence of democracy, 333n8; Mediterranean triad, 27, 44

  Aigeai, 267

  Aigina, 37, 146


  Aigospotamoi, battle of, 222

  Akragas, 176, 178, 180, 183–84, 218

  Alcibiades, 217–19, 221

  Alcmaeonids, 160, 197

  Alexander I, 267

  Alexander III, “the Great,” 19, 56; Aristotle as tutor of, 264, 282–83, 290; and coinage, 270–71; death of, 261, 299; Greek campaign of, 278; leadership of, 264, 289; Persia defeated by, 261, 297–99; wounding of, 297

  Alexander of Pherai, 238, 262, 263, 268

  Allen, Danielle, 68

  alphabet, 130, 132

  altruistic punishment, 68

  amateurism, in governance, 17–18, 251

  American Founders, 162, 225

  Amphipolis, 205, 238, 239, 269–70

  Amyntas III, King of Macedon, 282

  Anatolia: under Alexander the Great, 297–98; under Persia, 224, 230, 238, 258–60; settlement of, 126; under Sparta, 224

  Anaxagoras, 206

  animals, social behavior of, 47

  Antigonus “the One-Eyed,” 301

  Antipater, 299

  ants: amorality of, 52; as analogy for classical Greece, 21, 26, 55, 57, 61–66; decentralized cooperation in, 45, 49; Hobbes on, 58; information exchange among, 61, 63–64; non-specialization in, 31; organized behavior of, 61–67

  Aphidna, 162

  approvers, of coinage at Athens, 246, 249, 251

  arbitration, third-party, 305

  Arcadia, 33, 143

  Archaic period, 132

  architecture, 29, 204–5, 226. See also houses

  Areopagus council, 166, 197

  Argos, 144, 230

  Aristeides, 195

  aristocracy, as regime type, 40

  Aristogeiton, 159

  Aristophanes, 205, 206

  Aristotle: as Alexander’s tutor, 264, 282–83, 290; on Carthage, 241; on collective social action, 46–53, 66; father-in-law/patron of, 262; and Hellenistic political conditions, 312–13; Hobbes on, 58; as natural and social scientist, 47; Philip II’s rule and the philosophy of, 290–91; on political regimes, 40, 290, 311–13, 325–26; Politics, 40, 47–53, 283, 290, 301, 311–13; school founded by, 226, 247; on Sparta, 231, 357n16; on walled cities, 43

  Artaxerxes II, 227–29, 258

  Artemis, 144

  Artemisia II, 262

  artillery, 226

  assembly, Athenian, 95, 168, 233

  Athena, 144, 198

  Athenian empire, 37, 56, 195m; benefits of belonging to, 201–4; economics of, 203–6; end of, 222; establishment of, 194–96; governance of, 199, 206; ideology of, 199–200; institutions in, 119; overview of, 198–202; Persian Empire compared to, 199, 354n15; rent extraction in, 108; tensions in, 215; threats presented by, 209–12; Thucydides on, 208–12. See also Peloponnesian War

  Athenian Naval League, 230, 237, 239–40

  Athenian Tribute Lists, 198, 202

  Athens: access to information in, 116–17; advantages of, 123; anti-Persian strategy of, 193–96; assembly, 95, 168, 233; in Bronze Age, 125–26; citizen-centered government in, 150–51; citizenship in, 123, 149–51, 162, 164, 200; civic culture in, 232–36; Cleisthenes’ reforms in, 162, 164, 170–71, 175, 221, 289; coinage in, 204, 246, 249–50, 285; and colonization, 41, 145, 205; conflicts involving, 69; Council of 500, 164–67, 234; courts, 168; cults in, 144; culture of, 206, 226; debt cancellation in, 149; demes of, 162, 163t, 170; democracy in, 162–66, 197, 208–9, 226, 232–33, 300, 302–3; democracy promoted by, 201; development of, 132; economy of, 124, 303; elites in, 197, 235–36; emulation of, 252, 281, 303–4; equality in, 150–51, 214–15; expertise in, 248; financing of, 249–50; flexibility and versatility as characteristic of, 210–11, 214–15; in fourth century, 224, 232–40; Golden Age, 206; governance of, 250–52; in Hellenistic period, 302–5; income classes in, 151; infantry of, 166, 168, 214–15; influence and prominence of, 37, 144, 210–12; institutions of, 232–36, 243–47, 303–4; land area of, 33, 144; laws in, 148, 158, 233; living standards in, 97; Macedonia challenged by, 299–300; mass audiences in, 234–36; as model for city-state, 155; myth of shared ancestry, 67; navy of, 168–69, 192–93, 206, 214, 221–22, 305; oligarchy in, 221, 300; after Peloponnesian War, 229–30; Persian peace agreement with, 198; Philip II of Macedon and, 239–40, 271–76; plague in, 213, 355n48; political structure of, 162, 164–66; political transformations in, 160–62, 197; population of, 7, 144, 205, 278; pottery produced in, 158; public speaking and politics in, 171–74, 234–36, 249; revenuegenerating practices of, 244; rule egalitarianism in, 151; as sea power, 31; in seventh and sixth centuries, 144–53; Sicilian conflict with, 217–20; size of, 7, 33, 37; social and political development in early, 146–48; social crisis in, 124; Solonian reforms in, 124, 148–53, 161, 289; Sparta compared to, 210–11, 211t; Spartan conflicts with, 160, 166, 196–98, 210–17; specialization in, 124; state performance of, 166–67, 170–75, 247, 248–52; state spending and income in, 245t, 251–52; as superpolis, 169, 196, 208; Syracusan conflict with, 217–20; Syracuse compared to, 157, 186–88, 220; the Thirty in, 228, 231, 232–33; threats to, 159; and trade, 152–53, 201, 237–38, 244–47; tribes of, 164, 165f, 170–71; tyranny in, 153, 158–60; wages in, 95, 205, 303; wealth and income distribution in, 90–91, 92t, 93f, 96–98, 97t; wheat wages in, 96t. See also Athenian empire; Peloponnesian War

  Attica, 144–45, 145m, 150, 162

  Austin, M. M., 301

  authority, 55–57; centralized vs. dispersed, 7–11; of citizens, 16–18; cooperation and, 8; in democracy, 10; in Greek state system, 7–11. See also centralized authority; decentralized cooperation

  barbarians, 29, 241, 259, 267, 305

  barley, 27, 29, 152

  Baumol, William, 117

  bees, 49, 54, 58, 335n7

  Beloch, J. K., 81

  Bentham, Jeremy, 349n33

  Bintliff, John, 5

  biomimicry, 21

  birds, collective behavior of, 45, 61

  Black Sea, 22, 241

  Blockmans, Wim, 364n29

  Boeotia, 145m, 162, 166, 198, 229–32, 237

  Boeotian League, 237, 242, 276, 308

  border cult, 144

  Brasidas, 215

  Brauron, 144

  Bresson, Alain, 88, 304

  Bronze Age, 124–26, 129. See also Late Bronze Age

  building. See architecture

  burial practices, 146

  Byron, George Gordon, Lord, 1–2, 206, 293

  Byzantine empire, 296

  Byzantion, 239, 274, 288, 309

  cabotage, 203

  Callisthenes, 283

  Callistratus, 284–85

  Camarina, 178–79

  Canada, 90

  Caria, 238, 259

  carrying capacity, agricultural, 86, 133

  Carthage and Carthaginians: competition and predation from, 27; dynamic and expansionist city-state, 159; land area occupied by, 26, 27; political regime of, 56; Sicily vs., 180, 253–57, 263; Syracuse vs., 180

  Cartledge, Paul, 102

  cascade, behavioral, 46, 167, 196, 211, 218, 220, 307

  catapults, 226, 253, 287–88, 298

  cavalry, 28, 106, 159, 212–13, 268–69, 286

  centralized authority, 7–11; in Bronze Age, 124–26; collective social action under, 58–60; in Egypt, 55; in Hellenistic world, 310–14; Hobbes on, 58–60; Philip II of Macedon and, 279–80, 291; and specialization, 14–15, 17, 344n24

  Cephalus, 256

  Chaeronea, battle of, 261, 272, 275–76

  Chalkis, 133, 166, 168

  Charias, 288

  China, contrasted to Greek world, 13, 28, 331n17; Warring States era of, 8, 10

  Chios, 154, 239

  Choniates, Michael, 72

  Cimmerians, 27–28

  Cimon, 197

  cities. See urbanization

  citizen-centered government: in Athens, 166; in classical Greece, 153–54; economic outcomes of, 101–2; emergence of, 131; as factor in efflorescence, 16, 50, 60, 105f; federal leagues as, 242; in Greek states, 11
1; oligarchy and democracy as forms of, 40; public goods produced by, 54; tyranny vs., 40, 60. See also civic culture

  citizens and citizenship: in Athens, 123, 149–51, 162, 164, 200; authority of, 16–18, 167, 336n16; federal leagues and, 242; Greek cultural norm of, 182, 200; in Greek states, 153–55, 200; military authority of, 169; in Sicily, 184–85; social and occupational roles of, 31; in Sparta, 123, 143; in Syracuse, 186; wages for public service by, 95. See also Greeks

  city planning, 29, 259, 333n11

  city-states. See Greek states

  civic culture, 16–18; in Athens, 232–36; and economic exceptionalism, 101–2; institutions in relation to, 236. See also citizen-centered government

  civic rights, 16–18, 149

  civil associations, 246–47

  classical Greece: civic culture in, 16–18; decentralized cooperation characteristic of, 56; democracy in, 103, 226; distribution of authority in, 6–11; economy of, 88; exceptional character of, xiv–xix, 1–19, 296; exchange in, 11–14; expansion of, in fourth century, 241; fall of, xviii–xix, 18–19, 261–91; living conditions in, 88–89; living standards in, 70–100; modernity compared to, xv–xvi, 4; non-Greeks in, 41–42; persistence and dissemination of culture of, 4–5, 18–19, 295–97, 315; political institutions in, 16–17; population of, 21–22, 22f, 74, 75f, 81–82; rise of, xviii–xix; specialization in, 11–14; in 338, 278–79; urbanization in, 86–88, 340n34; value of studying, xv–xix, 294, 315. See also efflorescence of classical Greece; Greek states

  Cleander, 176

  Cleisthenes, and Cleisthenic reforms, 160–62, 164, 175, 197, 224, 289

  Cleitus “the Black,” 297

  Cleomenes, 160–62

  cleruchs, Athenian, 204, 205, 238; cleruchy on Samos, 276, 299, 300

  climate, 24–28; exchange linked to, 13–14; microclimates, 106; and social ecology, 104, 106; specialization linked to, 13–14

  coinage: in Athenian empire, 204; in Athens, 246, 249–50, 285; city-state production of, 39; Hellenistic, 271; as indicator of state prominence, 35; Macedonian, 270–71, 285; regulation of, 246, 249–50; Spartan avoidance of, 142

  coin hoards, 83–84

  collective interest, 289–90

  collective social action. See cooperation; decentralized cooperation

  collective wisdom, 173

  colonization: advantages of colonies, 135; Athens and, 41, 145, 205; early, 133; ecology of city-states and, 27; exchanges resulting from, 135; extent of, 41; founder-heroes and, 41; mother cities and, 41; Sparta and, 139

 

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