Introduction

In the Shadow of Macedonian Expansion (338-323)

Political Leaders

Endangered Peace

The Age of Lycurgus

The Crisis

Under Foreign Rule (323-307)

The Hellenic War

Unsettled Postwar Years

Demetrius of Phalerum

Between Freedom and Dependency (307-287)

Democracy without Full Freedom

Tyranny

King Demetrius

Culture in Public Life

Drama

The Schools of the Philosophers

The Fine Arts

Prose: Historiography and the Characters of Theophrastus

The Independent City (287-262)

Policy amid Competing Forces

Life in the City

The Chremonidean War

Renewed Subjugation (262-229)

The Royal Governor

A Satellite of Macedonia

Official Religion and the Royal House

Hellenistic Athens as Seen by a Contemporary

Freedom and Neutrality (229-200)

Precarious Freedom

The 220s

Athens as a Neutral Power

Alliance with Rome (200-167)

Against Philip

Against Antiochus

Against Perseus

Times of Peace (before and after 167)

Contacts with Kings

Contacts with Independent States

Conditions at Home

Athenian Delos

The Cleruchy

The Limits of Athenian Sovereignty

Center of Trade

Roman Hegemony

Athens and Oropus

Rome Acquires a Foothold on the Balkan Peninsula

Athens and Delphi

The Close of the Second Century

Foreign Relations

Conditions at Home

Athens and Mithridates

The Break with Rome

War and Its Consequences

After the War

The Constitution

Ruling Circles

A Difficult New Beginning

Subjection

Clodius' Plebiscite

Romans in Athens

In the Civil Wars

Epilogue

Abbreviations and Short Titles

Select Bibliography

Index