Description
Book SynopsisOffers a new history of the period from the Persian wars to wars that followed the death of Alexander the Great, from the perspective of Ionia. While recent scholarship has increasingly treated Greece through the lenses of regional, polis, and local interaction, there has not yet been a dedicated study of Classical Ionia. This book fills this gap.
Trade Review“This is the first existing monograph on its topic, and it fills a major gap in the historical literature on Ionia, for which the preceding Archaic and subsequent Hellenistic periods have received far greater attention. Nudell offers a new dimension to studies of Classical polis identity and social development and contributes to scholarship on interactions between local and globalizing factors, or between cities and empires, in the ancient Mediterranean and western Asia.”—John Hyland, Christopher Newport University
Table of Contents
- List of Maps
Abbreviations
- Prologue: The Land of Ionia
- Orienting toward Athens and the Aegean System: 480–454
- Under the Athenian Empire: 454–412
- Contempt for Athenian Hegemony: 411–401
- Centered on the Periphery: 401/0–386
- A Region Divided: 386–336
- Free, at Last?: 336–323
- Facing a New Hellenistic World: 323–294
- The Ornaments of Ionia: Temple Construction and Commercial Prosperity
- Epilogue
Appendix 1: Whither the Ionian League?
Appendix 2: Greeks and Non-Greeks in Classical Ionia
Appendix 3: Long Ago the Milesians Were Powerful
Bibliography
Index
