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ANCIENT GREECE This page intentionally left blank A N C I E N T G R E E C E A HISTORY IN ELEVEN CITIES PAUL CARTLEDGE 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ©PaulCartledge2009 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2009 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Cartledge,Paul. AncientGreece/PaulCartledge. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978–0–19–923338–0(hardback:acid-freepaper) 1. Greece—Civilization–To146B.C. 2. ByzantineEmpire—Civilization. I. Title. DF77.C34 2009 938–dc22 2009026999 TypesetbySPIPublisherServices,Pondicherry,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby ClaysLtd.,StIvesPlc ISBN 978–0–19–923338–0 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 TotheTrustees oftheA.G.LeventisFoundation This page intentionally left blank PREFACE I tisveryhard,inashortbook,todoanythinglikefull justice to an ‘Ancient Greece’ that was a conglom- 1000 erated civilization or culture of roughly , separate and often very distinct political entities at any one momentinancienttime,andthatstretchedatthelimit from southern Spain to the Black Sea shore of mod- ernGeorgia.(TheFitzwilliamMuseuminCambridge 2008 in hosted an exhibition devoted to splendidly sophisticated,mainlyGreek-madefindsfromgravesin Vani, Georgia, associated with an in-house exhibition ofcoinsfromtheBlackSearegiongenerally.) A Who’s Who, a Glossary, and a Timeline have been included to enhance ease of quick reference, together with notes on the spelling of Greek words andnames,andonGreekmeasuresofmoneyanddis- tance. But I should also like to draw readers’ attention to The Cambridge Illustrated History of Ancient Greece. Like this book, the CIHAG combines thematic with chronological approaches, and social, economic, reli- gious, and cultural with political, military, and diplo- matichistory,butinaformatwhich,unlikethepresent volume,isverydefinitelynotsuitableforpullingoutof a pocket to read on the train or bus or plane. I hope that it may be useful as a companion to readers of this book,asithasbeentomeinthewritingofit. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I should like to thank again my collaborators on The Cambridge History of Ancient Greece: Sue Alcock (nowofBrownUniversity),NickFisher(Universityof Wales, Cardiff), Marilyn Katz (Wesleyan University), Edith Hall (now Royal Holloway University of Lon- don),KarimArafat(King’sCollegeLondon),Cather- ine Morgan (now Director of the British School at Athens), Lesley Dean-Jones (University of Texas at Austin), and Richard Buxton (Bristol University); and theothercolleaguesandfriends,too,onthecontinent ofEurope(especiallyinGreece),inAfrica,inAmerica North and South, in Australasia, and in Japan, who have in some way or other contributed to the text that follows. There are too many to name them all indi- vidually, but two do require special mention: Robert Garland (Colgate University) and Polly Low (Univer- sityofManchester),whobothatextremelyshortnotice read and commented expertly on an entire near-final draft. And I must not forget the Press’s ‘anonymous reader’, who saved me from considerable embarrass- ment. Were it not for their kindness and collegiality, this book would have been even more imperfect than it is. I count myself exceedingly fortunate, too, to be writing at a time when the modern historiography of ancient Greece is experiencing something of a boom, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS and, not least, when outreach to wider publics than just one’s fellow-specialists is considered a (pleasur- able)dutyratherthanaluxury. It is in that same spirit of striving for outreach that I was deeply honoured to have my personal chair in Cambridge’sFacultyofClassicsendowedinperpetuity as the A. G. Leventis Professorship of Greek Culture 1 2008 (witheffectfrom October ).Thisbookisoneof the first fruits of that charity, and it is dedicated, in a spirit of ineffable kharis, to the Trustees of the A. G. LeventisFoundation. ix
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