This paper offers a new analysis of sources as well as a new reconstruction of the events of Greek History in July and August 433 B.C. The author especially focuses (1) on the historical motives behind the change of view which led the Athenian Assembly to side not with the Corinthians, but with the Corcyraeans (here also stressing the role played by Pericles’ arguments and rhetorical ability); (2) on the Corcyraeans’ expectations of a symmachy and their negotiations with the Athenians, soon after the Assembly’s decision for the epimachy; (3) on the true strategy of Athens. It appears that the Athenians had planned to send more than ten ships to Corcyra from the very beginning. Furthermore, it was not by chance that the official instructions...
César Fornis, Conon between Persia and Athens (394-391 BC), DHA 34/2, 2008, 33-64. Abstract : This ...
The aim of this thesis is to provide a distinctive study of fifth-century BC Athenian power. I argue...
Starting from the consideration that the Peloponnesian War was a very complex event from both the mi...
This paper offers a new analysis of sources as well as a new reconstruction of the events of Greek H...
DESPlTE ABLE STUDIES of the Epidamnian affair, and in particular of the Corcyraean and Corinthian sp...
An Athenian expedition to North-Western Greece led by Phormio, on request of Amphilochians and Acarn...
Whereas there is some evidence of Corcyrean interference in the Corinthian control of Leucas and Ana...
That war and alliances created the most suited context for the outburst of staseis (Thuc. III 82, 1)...
This thesis examines Thucydides’ presentation of the Corinthians in his account of the outbreak of t...
The paper presents possible explanations to issues raised by the newly discovered text of Hyperides ...
The island of Rhodes was a naval base of great strategic interest for the Greek states fighting for ...
Sparta’s attack on the newly-established Athenian democracy marks a turning point in the history of...
The earliest contacts known to us between Akarnania and the world of the Greek poleis are an unsucce...
The dating of the end of the classical period and the demise of the influence of Athens on the polit...
The main priority of my paper will be to point out characteristic features and the most important ob...
César Fornis, Conon between Persia and Athens (394-391 BC), DHA 34/2, 2008, 33-64. Abstract : This ...
The aim of this thesis is to provide a distinctive study of fifth-century BC Athenian power. I argue...
Starting from the consideration that the Peloponnesian War was a very complex event from both the mi...
This paper offers a new analysis of sources as well as a new reconstruction of the events of Greek H...
DESPlTE ABLE STUDIES of the Epidamnian affair, and in particular of the Corcyraean and Corinthian sp...
An Athenian expedition to North-Western Greece led by Phormio, on request of Amphilochians and Acarn...
Whereas there is some evidence of Corcyrean interference in the Corinthian control of Leucas and Ana...
That war and alliances created the most suited context for the outburst of staseis (Thuc. III 82, 1)...
This thesis examines Thucydides’ presentation of the Corinthians in his account of the outbreak of t...
The paper presents possible explanations to issues raised by the newly discovered text of Hyperides ...
The island of Rhodes was a naval base of great strategic interest for the Greek states fighting for ...
Sparta’s attack on the newly-established Athenian democracy marks a turning point in the history of...
The earliest contacts known to us between Akarnania and the world of the Greek poleis are an unsucce...
The dating of the end of the classical period and the demise of the influence of Athens on the polit...
The main priority of my paper will be to point out characteristic features and the most important ob...
César Fornis, Conon between Persia and Athens (394-391 BC), DHA 34/2, 2008, 33-64. Abstract : This ...
The aim of this thesis is to provide a distinctive study of fifth-century BC Athenian power. I argue...
Starting from the consideration that the Peloponnesian War was a very complex event from both the mi...