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• Introduction
• New Rome and the New Romans
• Government and the social order
• From Christian nation to Roman religion
• The first Christian emperors (324-361)
• Competing religions of empire (337-364)
• Toward an independent east (364-395)
• City and desert: Cultures old and new
• The political class ascendant (395-441)
• Barbarian terrors and military mobilization (441-491)
• Political consolidation and religious polarization (491-518)
• Chalcedonian repression and the eastern axis (518-531)
• The Sleepless Emperor (527-540)
• "Death has entered our gates" (540-565)
• The cost of overextension (565-602)
• The great war with Persia (602-630)
• Commanders of the Faithful (632-644)
• Holding the line (641-685)
• Life and taxes among the ruins
• An empire of outposts (685-717)
• The lion and the dragon (717-775)
• Reform and consolidation (775-815)
• Growing confidence (815-867)
• A new David and Solomon (867-912)
• A game of crowns (912-950)
• The triumph of Roman arms (950-1025)
• A brief hegemony (1025-1048)
• The end of Italy and the east (1048-1081)
• Komnenian crisis management (1081-1118)
• Good John and the Sun King (1118-1180)
• Disintegration and betrayal (1180-1204)
• "A new France": Colonial occupation
• Romans west and Romans east (1204-1261)
• Union with Rome and Roman Disunity (1261-1282)
• Territorial retrenchment and cultural innovation (1282-1328)
• Military failure and mystical solace (1328-1354)
• The noose tightens (1354-1402)
• The cusp of a new world (1402-1461)
• State revenues and payments to foreign groups, fifth-seventh centuries list of emperors
• Glossary
• Abbreviations
• Bibliography.

• Introducing Ancient Greek Housing
• Greek domestic architecture ca. 950-500 BCE: Re-inventing the House:
• Classical Athens and Attica: the Anatomy of Housing in a City and its Territory:
• Housing in Mainland Greece during the Classical period: Towards a Shared Ideal?
• Housing Greek Households in the Eastern, Western and Southern Mediterranean and
• Northern Black Sea Littoral: The Boundaries of an Ideal?
• Housing, Power and Wealth in Greek Communities during the Late Classical and Early
• Hellenistic periods: Stretching the Ideal?
• Greek housing into the Hellenistic Period: The Transformation of an Ideal?
• Epilogue: the Single-Entrance, Courtyard House and Beyond.

"Provides students of Classics, ancient history and archaeology with an accessible introduction to the archaeological evidence for housing and domestic life in the ancient Greek world. Numerous illustrations (line drawings and photographs), along with texts in translation, enable readers to engage closely with the topic"-- Provided by publisher.

"Excavations at ancient Methone, a settlement with a crucial role in the economic and political history of Classical Greece as well as the prehistory of the north Aegean, uncovered remains from the Late Neolithic period through the fourth-century destruction by king Philip II of Macedon. This volume presents results of the project in selected artefacts, burials, and structures representing the chief phases of the city, in chronological order"-- Provided by publisher.
"Excavations at ancient Methone since 2003 by the Greek Ministry of Culture have uncovered remains from the Late Neolithic period through the fourth-century B.C. destruction by Philip II of Macedon. These discoveries extend the history of the city, a colony of Eretria (Euboia) since the late eighth century B.C., by nearly three thousand years into Greek prehistory. This volume presents results of the project in selected artefacts, burials, and structures representing the chief phases of the city, in chronological order. An introduction covers historical sources, excavations from 2003 to 2013, and the unique location of Methone; Part I details the prehistoric settlement at Methone, from the fourth millennium to 1000 B.C., and the Bronze Age burials. Part II focuses on the copious artifacts and ecofacts from the Early Iron Age 'Hypogeion' shaft. Part III presents artifacts and architecture from the Archaic and Classical periods, through the final days of the siege of the city in 354 B.C. The significance of this work lies in its interdisciplinary methods, combining stylistic analysis of artifacts and source-critical philology with natural history, bioarchaeology, materials analysis, and geochemistry, whose results reveal the long-term history of a site crucial to the economic and political history of Classical Greece and the north Aegean"--Back cover.

• Pt. 1. Une diplomatie entre idéologie politique et réalités administratives
• 1. L'idéologie impériale face aux réalités
• La supériorité impériale sur le monde
• Un empereur pacifique face aux barbares
• Des théories et leurs limites
• 2. L'administration byzantine de la diplomatie
• Du rôle institutionnel de l'empereur à l'organisation du sékréton du drome
• L'empereur et la diplomatie
• Le sékréton (bureau) du drome
• Les interprètes
• Les lettres officielles : produits de la chancellerie et interfaces avec les puissances extérieures
• La langue et l'encre des lettres
• Conservation, transmission et enjeux
• Qualification des destinataires et éléments internes : indices de proximité et/ou de tensions
• Trèves et traités de paix : entre concession unilatérale et adaptations
• Désigner la paix, nommer l'entente officielle
• Discussions et processus de ratification
• Serments et validation des traités
• Pt. 2. Tractations, armes et acteurs de la diplomatie
• 3. Des tractations à la géopolitique. Armes et pratiques diplomatiques de l'Empire
• Du manque d'informations sur les tractations à leurs résultats
• Territoires, frontières et places fortes
• Alliances offensives et défensives
• Prisonniers, transfuges : échanger des personnes
• Enjeux économiques et commerciaux
• Tributs, or, dignités impériales et dons byzantins
• La question des tributs
• L'arme de l'argent
• La concession de dignités officielles
• Les dons : arme de prestige et image impériale
• Les alliances matrimoniales : une politique à long terme
• 4. Ambassadeurs byzantins, ambassadeurs étrangers à Byzance et autres acteurs de la diplomatie
• Les contours d'un groupe d'hommes aux fonctions temporaires
• Quelques chiffres
• Une élite
• Une relation de confiance
• Dimensions intellectuelles, pouvoirs et immunité des ambassadeurs
• Relever des cercles intellectuels
• Des pouvoirs divers : des instructions aux abus de pouvoirs
• L'immunité diplomatique
• Dans l'ombre des ambassadeurs : d'autres acteurs oubliés
• Membres des suites
• Les otages
• Exilés, prisonniers, et autres intermédiaires
• Les femmes
• Pt. 3. Des fastes du cérémonial aux réalités de la guerre
• 5. Réceptions et cérémonial. Le faste palatin et les enjeux de l'accueil diplomatique à Constantinople
• Marquer les esprits des hôtes officiels : le décorum du palais impérial
• Les donnée théoriques du Livre des cérémonies relatives au premier accueil solennel
• L'accueil d'après les sources narratives
• La réception du 31 mai 946
• Les réceptions avant et après le milieu du a' siècle
• Banquets et divertissements : des repas partagés à la mise en ordre du monde
• Les banquets de 946
• Mets consommés, réjouissances et distractions
• La taxis ou la mise en ordre du monde
• Entre visites imposées de la ville et réalités politiques
• L'hippodrome et l'église Sainte-Sophie : lieux visités, réalités vécues
• Logement et surveillance
• Des faits politiques glanés à la transmission d'information
• 6. Entre guerre et pair Les métamorphoses de la diplomatie
• Une diplomatie étroitement liée à l'activité militaire
• Diplomatie de paix, diplomatie pour la guerre
• Trois manœuvres diplomatiques récurrentes : trouver des alliés de revers, diviser pour mieux régner, éviter de combattre simultanément sur deux fronts
• Espionnage, dissimulation et ruse
• L'activité diplomatique sur les marges frontalières
• Hommes de la frontière et rencontres officielles sur les marges
• La diplomatie des stratèges et gouverneurs frontaliers
• Usurpateurs, frontières et pouvoirs étrangers.

"Continuité de l'Empire romain centré sur Constantinople, l'État byzantin a constitué l'une des puissances médiévales. Ce fut particulièrement le cas durant la période du vie siècle au début du mi' siècle, pendant laquelle il a déployé une intense activité diplomatique auprès de ses nombreux voisins. Fort de son idéologie, il s'est voulu et pensé comme un authentique Empire du Milieu, tout en s'armant d'un réalisme constant à l'épreuve de ce monde étranger qu'il qualifiait de barbare - en bon dépositaire de la culture gréco-romaine. Sa diplomatie, en lien avec une géopolitique souvent complexe, fut incessante sur les marges, et au-delà, du territoire impérial. Étendant son spectre géographique de l'Atlantique à la Chine, et de la Scandinavie à la Nubie, cette diplomatie a même pu être considérée comme essentielle à la survie de l'Empire. Elle est ici présentée dans sa logique d'ensemble, entre principes théoriques et pragmatisme sur le terrain, dans une étude qui fait la part belle à ses acteurs, à ses outils prestigieux (or, dons, titres auliques), tout comme aux lieux emblématiques de son expression, du Palais impérial aux espaces de la guerre."--Page 4 of cover.

• Introduction
• The world of Antonina
• General of the East
• Victory in Africa
• The Eternal City
• From Rome to Ravenna
• Trying times
• Italy redux
• Twilight of a power couple
• Afterlife and legend
• Appendix 1 : dramatis personae
• Appendix 2 : timeline
• Appendix 3 : the wealth of Belisarius

• The world of Antonina
• General of the East
• Victory in Africa
• The Eternal City
• From Rome to Ravenna
• Trying times
• Italy redux
• Twilight of a power couple
• Afterlife and legend.

"He was a famous general, victor over the Persians, conqueror of the Vandals and Ostrogoths. She was a first-rate political operative, deposer of a pope, wielder of influence. Together, Belisarius and Antonina were the most powerful couple of the sixth-century Roman world, excepting only their sovereigns and friends, the emperor Justinian (r. 527-565) and empress Theodora. Belisarius and Antonina found strength in their marriage, which was not just a romance but also an enormously successful partnership. Antonina travelled around the Mediterranean with Belisarius, accompanying him on military campaigns to Mesopotamia, North Africa, and Italy. Together, the pair restored Roman rule to North Africa and Italy. Together, they deposed Pope Silverius in Rome and selected his replacement. Together, they became one of the wealthiest and most powerful couples in the Roman world. However, their relationship was far from perfect. Belisarius and Antonina occasionally argued over their children. Their constant historian, Procopius of Caesarea, accused Antonina of having an incestuous affair with her adopted son, and Belisarius of being too weak to put a stop to it. Even their public careers sometimes went off the rails, as when Belisarius was disgraced for plotting when Justinian fell ill with the plague that would eventually bear his name. Through it all, the partnership of Belisarius and Antonina sustained the couple. It was, without doubt, the most important nonroyal marriage of the century"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / Polly A. Low
• Part I. Context and methods. Establishing a new genre : Thucydides and non-historiographic memory / Jonas Grethlein
• Thucydidean self-presentation / Tom Beasley
• Thucydides' use of evidence and sources / P.J. Rhodes
• Rhetorical history : speeches in Thucydides / Emily Greenwood
• Prolegomena to the Peloponnesian War : Thucydides Book 1 / Jeffrey S. Rusten
• Time and foresight in Thucydides / Rosaria Vignolo Munson
• Labouring for truth in Thucydides / Elizabeth K. Irwin
• Part II. Themes and content. Thucydides and war / Jason Crowley
• Thucydides on empire and imperialism / Polly A. Low
• Ethnicity in Thucydides / Maria Fragoulaki
• Thucydides and leadership / Sarah Brown Ferrario
• Thucydides on democracy and the others / Ryan K. Balot
• Justice and morality in Thucydides / Paul Woodruff
• Part III. After Thucydides. Thucydides in Greek and Roman historiography / Luke V. Pitcher
• Thucydides in Byzantium / Scott Kennedy, Anthony Kaldellis
• Thucydides in the Renaissance and Reformation / Kinch Hoekstra
• Narrative of Thucydides and the nineteenth-century discipline of (ancient) history / Alexandra Lianeri
• 'What really happened' : varieties of realism in Thucydides' history / Joel Alden Schlosser
• Translating Thucydides / Jeremy Mynott

"Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is one of the earliest and most influential works in the western historiographical tradition. It provides an unfinished account of the war between Athens and her allies and Sparta and her allies which lasted from 431 to 404 BC, and is a masterpiece of narrative art and of political analysis. The twenty chapters in this Companion offer a wide range of perspectives on different aspects of the text, its interpretation and its significance. The nature of the text is explored in detail, and problems of Thucydides' historical and literary methodology are examined. Other chapters analyse the ways in which Thucydides' work illuminates, or complicates, our understanding of key historical questions for this period, above all those relating to the nature and conduct of war, politics, and empire. Finally, the book also explores the continuing legacy of Thucydides, from antiquity to the present day"-- Provided by publisher

• Economic networks : the transport of heavy freight
• Economic networks : commodities and semi-luxuries
• Entangled networks : the transfer of technical knowledge
• Political networks : expressions of political affiliation
• Political networks : state alliance and amphiktyonies

• Introduction
• Friendship in Athenian politics prior to the demagogues
• Cleon and the rise of friendship-based Athenian demagogy
• The sociology of making individual philoi among the masses
• Distinguishing desire from friendship in leadership models in Aristophanes' Knights
• Later developments of the "leader as philos" model
• Conclusion : Cleon and the legacy of leadership by friendship

"What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of several genres of literature of the late 5th and early-to-mid 4th centuries BCE. Such connection was particularly effective with lower classes of Athenians, who had been accustomed to being excluded from politicians' friendship-based approaches to coalition-building. Comedies of Aristophanes (particularly Knights), tragedies of Euripides (particularly Iphigenia in Aulis), and historical biographies of Xenophon (particularly Anabasis and Cyropaedia) depict demagogues, or characters exhibiting demagogic characteristics, using a style of outreach to members of neglected classes that involved provoking feelings of friendship with individuals in these classes, whether the demagogues and individual supporters actually interacted closely or not. These leaders employed techniques, such as propinquity, homophily, and transitivity, that both contemporary sociologists (and, in some cases, Aristotle) recognize as effective for such purposes. Particular attention is paid to discrepancies in Aristophanes' Knights between how the demagogue Cleon is hyperbolically portrayed (as a pederastic lover of the Athenian people) and how his language and actions make him out - as a friend of theirs, as he likely portrayed himself"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Introduction: The Greeks at the beginning of the twentieth century
• 2. The 'long First World War' (1912-1922)
• 3. The wider Greek world I: The end of the age of empire
• 4. State and society during the interwar period (1922-1940)
• 5. The Occupation: Greece under the Axis (1941-1944)
• 6. The Civil War (1945-1949)
• 7. The post-war era (1950-1974)
• 8. The wider Greek world II: From nationalism to multiculturalism
• 9. Springtime for democracy: Metapolitefsi (1974-1985)
• 10. European integration and globalisation (1985-2008)
• 11. The Crisis years (2008-2021)

During the period of Independence, the hieropes - magistrates of Delos responsible for managing sacred goods - had to each year draw up an inventory of offerings dedicated to Apollo and other divinities. They then had them engraved on steles that excavators from the French School of Athens unearthed many centuries later. In a thesis defended in 1959, Jacques Tréheux dealt with everything concerning vase collections, which led him to critically analyze the inscriptions published in IG XI 2 then in the ID collection. His study mainly focuses on the inventories of the Hieropoion and the Chalcothèque. J. Tréheux would have liked to extend this study to all the inventories; but his work remained unfinished. At least the seven chapters collected here teach a lot about the management of offerings, the writing of the first inventories and a certain number of terms used by the hieropes - the meaning of which he was able to clarify. Addenda and corrections due to Pierre Charneux as well as detailed indices make it easier to read and consult. -- EFA Editions website.