Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean in ancient history and prehistory

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- From the Aion Plutonios of the Ptolemies to the Saeculum Frugiferum of the Roman Emperors -- Mycenaean Decline – Some Problems and Thoughts -- A Document of Artaxerxes IV? -- Alexander and Ammon -- Alexander and Greek Athletics, in Fact and in Fiction -- Thermopylai Revisited and some Topographical Notes on Marathon and Plataiai -- The Ionian Name -- Bathrooms and Lustral Chambers -- Cleitarchus and Diodorus 17 -- The Meaning and Significance of the Reported Speech of Phrynichus in Thucydides 8,48 -- Minoan Town-Shrines? -- Mycenaeans at Thera: Some Reflections on the Paintings from the West House -- A Cypro-Mycenaean III C: 1 Amphora from Kition -- Athens: Between Tyranny and Democracy -- Tragödien bei Herodot? -- Poets and Politicians in Fifth-Century Greece -- Herodotus in Athens? -- Corinth and Athens before the Peloponnesian War -- List of Illustrations -- Illustrations