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, colle...

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.