The Mytilene Debate: Thucydides 3.36-49
- A. Andrewes
- History
- 22 January 1962
THE REVOLT OF MYTILENE in 428 was felt the more keenly at Athens because it was the very deliberate revolt of a specially favoured ally. When the news arrived that the city had surrendered to Paches,…
The generals in The Hellespont, 410–407 B.C.
- A. Andrewes
- HistoryJournal of Hellenic Studies
- 1 November 1953
The course of Athenian military operations after the battle of Kyzikos is not to be explained by considerations of strategy alone. Immediately after their victory the Athenian commanders acted…
Thucydides on the Causes of the War
- A. Andrewes
- HistoryClassical Quarterly
- 1 November 1959
It is no doubt often salutary, even a necessary condition of progress, that we should shelve the great problems of a preceding generation without precisely solving them; but a controversy may be…
The growth of the Athenian state
- A. Andrewes
- History
- 1 August 1982
The unification of Attica The Iliad speaks of the Athenians as a single people. Homeric references to them are indeed sparse and disputable: it is anomalous that the Athenian entry in the Catalogue…
The Tyranny of Pisistratus
- A. Andrewes
- History
- 1 August 1982
Solon to Pisistratus Solon's reform broke the monopoly of office enjoyed till his time by the Attic nobility. This was bound to be resented, and the following years were punctured by strife over the…
Ephoros Book I and the Kings of Argos
- A. Andrewes
- HistoryClassical Quarterly
- 1 January 1951
Ephoros is known to have conceived each of his books as a unit with a specific theme, so that where we have any quantity of material it is worth while asking what the theme of a book was supposed to…
The Spartan Resurgence
- A. Andrewes
- History
- 1 March 1992
At Sparta envoys from Chios and Erythrae were supported by one from Tissaphernes, satrap of Sardis. At the end of summer a major Athenian force reached Samos under Phrynichus. Near the end of winter…
Two Notes on Lysander.
- A. Andrewes
- History
- 23 January 1971
CONSIDERING THE EVIDENT importance of Lysander's organisation of a Spartan empire, we are curiously ill-informed about the detail. We are uncertain about his mere physical movements in almost every…
Notion and Kyzikos: the sources compared
- A. Andrewes
- HistoryJournal of Hellenic Studies
- 1 November 1982
It has long been seen that there were two distinct versions current in antiquity of the course of events after the late summer of 411, when Thucydides' History comes to its abrupt end. Xenophon's…
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