Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Christian Habicht is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and a Fellow of the British Academy.

Reviews

Habicht has for years been established as...the leading authority on the history of Athens in the centuries between the fall of the Athenian Empire, in 404 B.C.E., and the establishment of the Roman Empire...The book now made available in English will surely be the standard work on the subject for the next thirty years. -- Jasper Griffin New York Review of Books Christian Habicht is a German scholar of very high quality...His Athens from Alexander to Antony is a welcome new account of this turbulent period...It is a first-class piece of work, likely to remain authoritative for many years, and the reader who tackles it will be rewarded. -- Hugh Lloyd-Jones Wall Street Journal Anglophone scholars will welcome this prompt translation of Habicht's excellent [Athens from Alexander to Antony]...The need for a new serious general history of Hellenistic Athens cannot be doubted, given that the last was W. S. Ferguson's Hellenistic Athens: An Historical Essay (London, 1911). Nor can it be doubted that Habicht, the distinguished epigraphist and veteran of many technical studies in this area, is the man for the job. -- Daniel Ogden Classical Review Christian Habicht has written a very readable general history of Hellenistic Athens...Habicht addresses the major difficulty in writing a historical narrative of this period: the scarcity of sources. He more than offsets the problem of fragmented literary texts with the insights that the surviving epigraphic evidence of decrees, lists, reports, and coinage adds to the picture of Athenian public life. With great skill in synthesizing this source material, Habicht builds his thesis that during the period from Macedonia's domination to Rome's subjugation, Athens remained a viable city with an active citizenry who participated in political, cultural, and international affairs. -- Randolph H. Lytton History [UK]