	A HISTORY OF THE GREEK CITY STATES Raphael Sealey
	Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, 1976, 575 pgs., index, maps, notes, descrptions of the ancient Greek and Roman sources. illustrations
	Reviewer Comments: This study includes the years from 700 to 338 BC. Note from his TOC headings on that the author accepts the modern standard presumption about a political group in a city being a 'state', although in ancient times the inhabitants considered themselves a 'society' frequently organized as a group of tribes owing their existence to god or gods, and did not yet develop the modern concept of 'state'. It seems to me that he simply uses this general modern term without analysis of what it means in contrast to the concept of polity in Greek thought. Although the title is 'Greek City States', it also is a study mostly of Athens, somewhat less of Sparta, and very little in detail about the several hundred of other Greek societies organized around one or more cities and their environs. This is largely due to the great majority of historical references and information being about Athens or Sparta - Athenian or Spartan. The book is almost all political history (including military history) with some discussion of social history, less of cultural history and practically nothing about economic history. The author does include the political - military strategies pursued by the many identified leaders and supported or opposed by the populace. As does Thucydides, Sealey stresses the personality of each of the leading idividuals, their personal objectives and motivations, and their competitions (conflicts) with each other for political power. In Chapters 9 - 10 he focuses on the developments in the Athenian and Spartan alliances and the reactions to those by leaders in those and other cities that increasingly led to the Peloponnesian War. Analysis of the causes of the war continue in chapter 11 and 12 -15 describe the wars in considerable detail. By using references to many sources other than Thucydides the author shows the reader that this is necessary to fill in many of these datails that, as famous as he is, Thucydides should not be relied upon for the whole story.
	Preface
	Part I The Development of the City State and the Persian Wars Note on the Literary Sources for Part I
	1: Greece ca 700
	2: Tyranny in the early Peloponnese
	3: Early Sparta
	4: The Beginnings of the Athenian State
	5: Solon and the Rise of Peisistratus
	6: The Peisistratidae and the Reforms of Cleisthenes
	7: Persia and Greece I: The Designs of the Persians
	8: Persia and Greece II: The Hellenic League
	Part II: The Era of Hegemonic Leagues Note on the Literary and Epigraphic Sources for Part II
	9: Divergence between Athens and Sparta
	10: The First Peloponnesian War Athenian successes ca. 460 - ca, 455 BC. Egypt, peace and disaffection 454 - 451 Cyprus and Persia The supposed crisis of 545-449 Disaffection 449 - 447 TheThirty Years' Peace
	11: The Athenian Empire and the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War Athens The Empire Athens and western Greece Athens and the Samian Revolt Athens and the northeast The breakdown of the peace Notes Table D the family ties of Pericles
	12: The Archidamian War and the Peace of Nicias Hostilities opened Early theaters of warfare New theaters of warfare Steps toward peace The beakdown of the peace of Nicias
	13: The Middle Stage of the Peloponnesian War 419 - 411 BC Epidaurus, Mantina, Melos The dispatch of the expedition to Sicily The Sicilian expedition and its aftermath The revolution of 411
	14: The End of the Peloponnesian War 411 - 404 BC Warfare in teh straits 411- 410 The ascendancy and decline of Alcibiades Arginusae, Aegospotami and the siege of Athens The revolution of 404
	15: The Corinthian War The Spartan embroilment with Persia The opening of the Corinthian War Warfare at sea and an attempt at peace The peace of Antalcidas
	Part III: Leagues of More Equal Type Note on the Literary and Epigraphic Sources for Part III
	16: The Decline of the Spartan Hegemony, 386 - 371
	17: The Theban Hegemony
	18: The Rise of Macedon
	19: The Final Struggle with Philip II

A HISTORY OF THE GREEK CITY STATES

Raphael Sealey

Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, 1976, 575 pgs., index, maps, notes, descrptions of the ancient Greek and Roman sources. illustrations

Preface

Part I The Development of the City State and the Persian Wars Note on the Literary Sources for Part I

1: Greece ca 700

2: Tyranny in the early Peloponnese

3: Early Sparta

4: The Beginnings of the Athenian State

5: Solon and the Rise of Peisistratus

6: The Peisistratidae and the Reforms of Cleisthenes

7: Persia and Greece I: The Designs of the Persians

8: Persia and Greece II: The Hellenic League

Part II: The Era of Hegemonic Leagues Note on the Literary and Epigraphic Sources for Part II

9: Divergence between Athens and Sparta

10: The First Peloponnesian War Athenian successes ca. 460 - ca, 455 BC. Egypt, peace and disaffection 454 - 451 Cyprus and Persia The supposed crisis of 545-449 Disaffection 449 - 447 TheThirty Years' Peace

11: The Athenian Empire and the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War Athens The Empire Athens and western Greece Athens and the Samian Revolt Athens and the northeast The breakdown of the peace Notes Table D the family ties of Pericles

12: The Archidamian War and the Peace of Nicias Hostilities opened Early theaters of warfare New theaters of warfare Steps toward peace The beakdown of the peace of Nicias

13: The Middle Stage of the Peloponnesian War 419 - 411 BC Epidaurus, Mantina, Melos The dispatch of the expedition to Sicily The Sicilian expedition and its aftermath The revolution of 411

14: The End of the Peloponnesian War 411 - 404 BC Warfare in teh straits 411- 410 The ascendancy and decline of Alcibiades Arginusae, Aegospotami and the siege of Athens The revolution of 404

15: The Corinthian War The Spartan embroilment with Persia The opening of the Corinthian War Warfare at sea and an attempt at peace The peace of Antalcidas

Part III: Leagues of More Equal Type Note on the Literary and Epigraphic Sources for Part III

16: The Decline of the Spartan Hegemony, 386 - 371

17: The Theban Hegemony

18: The Rise of Macedon

19: The Final Struggle with Philip II

Return to Xenophon. Return to Ruscity. Return to Rushistory. Return to Ukraine.

Part I The Development of the City State and the Persian Wars
Note on the Literary Sources for Part I

Part II: The Era of Hegemonic Leagues
Note on the Literary and Epigraphic Sources for Part II

10: The First Peloponnesian War
Athenian successes ca. 460 - ca, 455 BC.
Egypt, peace and disaffection 454 - 451
Cyprus and Persia
The supposed crisis of 545-449
Disaffection 449 - 447
TheThirty Years' Peace

11: The Athenian Empire and the Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War
Athens
The Empire
Athens and western Greece
Athens and the Samian Revolt
Athens and the northeast
The breakdown of the peace
Notes
Table D the family ties of Pericles

12: The Archidamian War and the Peace of Nicias
Hostilities opened
Early theaters of warfare
New theaters of warfare
Steps toward peace
The beakdown of the peace of Nicias

13: The Middle Stage of the Peloponnesian War 419 - 411 BC
Epidaurus, Mantina, Melos
The dispatch of the expedition to Sicily
The Sicilian expedition and its aftermath
The revolution of 411

14: The End of the Peloponnesian War 411 - 404 BC Warfare in teh straits 411- 410
The ascendancy and decline of Alcibiades
Arginusae, Aegospotami and the siege of Athens
The revolution of 404

15: The Corinthian War
The Spartan embroilment with Persia
The opening of the Corinthian War
Warfare at sea and an attempt at peace
The peace of Antalcidas

Part III: Leagues of More Equal Type
Note on the Literary and Epigraphic Sources for Part III