Athenian generals : : military authority in the classical period / / by Debra Hamel.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, 182
• Author: Hamel, Debra.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 182.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvi, 250 pages)

This study of the Athenian strategia is concerned with identifying the locus of military authority in the Athenian polis . Consideration of the role played by generals in the deliberative and final stages of military expeditions and of the relationship between strategoi and their subordinates, colleagues, and the Athenian demos itself suggests that Athens' generals did not exercise significant authority over their city's military operations. Rather, the demos controlled its generals both by means of its direct involvement in decision-making related to campaigns and by establishing in Athens a climate of fear which was very often sufficient to dissuade generals from acting in opposition to the Athenians' will. This volume is important reading for anyone who is interested in ancient military history or the question of sovereignty in Athens.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Deliberation and Preparation for War -- The Aftermath of Combat -- Athens’ Generals and their Troops and Subordinate Officers -- Strategoi and the Polemarch -- Authority in the Strategia -- Athens’ Strategoi and Allied Commanders -- The Demos and Generals in the Field -- Disciplinary Action -- Conclusions -- Manning the Walls and Manning the Pnyx -- The Miltiades Decree -- 490/89: Miltiades’ Parian Expedition -- Themistokles and the Athenian Response to the Second Persian Invasion -- c. 476/5: Kimon’s Skyrian Expedition -- 456/5: Tolmides’ Periplous of the Peloponnese -- Kimon’s Alleged Recall from Ostracism and the 451/0 Expedition to Cyprus -- 440/39: Perikles, Aspasia, and the Expedition to Samos -- 433/2: Perikles and the Expedmon to Corcyra -- Vote on Aristeia at the Isthmus of Corinth, 480/79 -- The Strategos epi tous Hoplitas -- On the Status of Menandros and Euthydemos in 413/12 -- Strategoi Autokratores -- Fatalities -- Note on the Retirement of Alkibiades to the Chersonese in 407/6 -- Note on Philokles’ Generalship -- Texts -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index of Passages Cited -- Index of Strategoi -- Index of Modern Authors -- Supplements to Mnemosyne by J. M. Bremer , L. F. Janssen , H. Pinkster , H. W. Pleket , C. J. Ruijgh and P. H. Schrijvers.