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Table of Contents

Preface
Maps

Introduction: "This is the City of Hadrian and not of Theseus"
1. Farewell to Freedom
2. Under The Puppet Ruler: Demetrius of Phalerum
3. Political and Civic Institutions
4. Demetrius "The Besieger" and Athens
5. Testing Macedonia
6. Independence Day
7. Enter Rome, Exit Macedonia
8.Being Free without Freedom
9. Social Life and Religion
10. Sulla's Sack of Athens
11. The End of "Hellenistic" Athens
12. Augustus and Athens
13. Tiberius to Hadrian
14. Building A New Horizon?
15. Hadrian's Arch

Timeline
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Ian Worthington, FSA, FRHistS is Professor of Ancient History of Macquarie University. He is the author of numerous books about ancient the ancient world, including, most recently, The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome, Ptolemy I: King and Pharaoh of Egypt, By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire, and Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece.

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Ian Worthington's Athens After Empire shows how there has been a tendency to fixate on the heyday of famous ancient cities while the events before or after have been unfairly and misleadingly eclipsed. Paul Cartledge's excellent Hellenistic and Roman Sparta presents how such an approach distorted Sparta's enduring importance. Now, Worthington's splendid, learned, and highly readable volume will achieve the same for Athens. Worthington's aim is to demonstrate that Athens did not fade away or drop off the historical radar or even decline into oblivion, and he successfully proves his thesis.
*Georgina Longley, World History Encyclopedia*

Worthington skillfully steers a middle course between an optimistic picture of Athenian civic (or even democratic) vitality and sensitivity to realities of power.... Anyone curious to learn, for example, why the now most striking feature of the archaeological site of the Athenian agora is the reconstructed Stoa of Attalos, the gift of a Hellenistic king, will find reliable answers here.... An excellent guide to the complex entanglement of cities and kings in the Greek world from the Classical period on.
*Times Literary Supplement*

a good summary of the large amount of work in recent decades on Hellenistic and Roman Athens
*Kostas Vlassopoulos, Greece & Rome*

An excellent guide to the complex entanglements of cities and kings in the Greek world from the Classical period on.
*Times Literary Supplement *

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