Buckler - Beck - Central Greece Politics of Power 4th century, historia
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BUCKLER AND BECK: CENTRAL GREECE
AND THE POLITICS OF POWER IN THE
FOURTH CENTURY BC
The streams of Greek history in the fourth century are highly con-
troversial. Sandwiched between the Classical fifth century and the
Hellenistic period, the era has invited various readings, most prom-
inently the verdict of decrepitude and decline. Recent discoveries,
however, indicate that the period was not simply illustrative of the
political, social, and economic weaknesses of the Greek city-state.
This book examines the fourth century from an area with its own
regional dynamics: central Greece, a region often considered a back-
water for macropolitics. The authors disclose a vivid tension between
regional politics in Boeotia and its adjacent territories and Greek
affairs. They provide a meticulous and, at times, microscopic investi-
gation into the region’s military and political history, together with
detailed analyses of the topography of the places ‘‘where history was
made.’’ The result is a dazzling account of Greece’s power-transition
crisis on the eve of the Macedonian conquest.
JOHN BUCKLER
, Emeritus Professor of Greek History, specializes in
the history of Greece during the fourth century
BC
. His publications
include The Theban Hegemony,
–
362
HANS BECK
is John MacNaughton Professor of Classics at McGill
University in Montreal and has published widely in the field of Greek
federalism. He is the author of Polis und Koinon (1997).
BC
(1980), Philip II and the
Sacred War (1989) and Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century
BC
(2003).
371
CENTRAL GREECE AND THE
POLITICS OF POWER IN THE
FOURTH CENTURY BC
JOHN BUCKLER AND HANS BECK
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BUCKLER AND BECK: CENTRAL GREECE
AND THE POLITICS OF POWER IN THE
FOURTH CENTURY BC
The streams of Greek history in the fourth century are highly con-
troversial. Sandwiched between the Classical fifth century and the
Hellenistic period, the era has invited various readings, most prom-
inently the verdict of decrepitude and decline. Recent discoveries,
however, indicate that the period was not simply illustrative of the
political, social, and economic weaknesses of the Greek city-state.
This book examines the fourth century from an area with its own
regional dynamics: central Greece, a region often considered a back-
water for macropolitics. The authors disclose a vivid tension between
regional politics in Boeotia and its adjacent territories and Greek
affairs. They provide a meticulous and, at times, microscopic investi-
gation into the region’s military and political history, together with
detailed analyses of the topography of the places ‘‘where history was
made.’’ The result is a dazzling account of Greece’s power-transition
crisis on the eve of the Macedonian conquest.
JOHN BUCKLER
, Emeritus Professor of Greek History, specializes in
the history of Greece during the fourth century
BC
. His publications
include The Theban Hegemony,
–
362
HANS BECK
is John MacNaughton Professor of Classics at McGill
University in Montreal and has published widely in the field of Greek
federalism. He is the author of Polis und Koinon (1997).
BC
(1980), Philip II and the
Sacred War (1989) and Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century
BC
(2003).
371
CENTRAL GREECE AND THE
POLITICS OF POWER IN THE
FOURTH CENTURY BC
JOHN BUCKLER AND HANS BECK
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