Aeschines and Athenian Politics.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Whom to Believe? -- 2. Family, Early Career, and Start in Politics -- Family Background -- Early Career -- Aeschines' Entry into Politics -- 3. Getting to Know Philip -- Athens and Macedon to 348 -- The Decision to Begin Negotiations with Philip -- The First Embassy -- 4. Peace at Last -- The First Embassy Returns to Athens -- The Meetings of the Assembly on Elaphebolio 18, 19, and 25 -- 5. The End of the Third Sacred War -- The Second Embassy -- The Meeting of the Council after the Return of the Second Embassy and the Meeting of the Assembly on Skirophorion 16 -- The Surrender of Phocis -- The Prosecution of Timarchus -- 6. Entre Deux Guerres -- 7. Decline and Exit -- From the Siege of Byzantium to the Defeat at Chaeronea -- Waiting for the Final Performance -- 8. Conclusion -- APPENDICES -- 1. Was Aeschines Ever an Associate of Aristophon? -- 2. The Chronology of the Olynthus Campaigns and Philip's Peace Offers -- 3. Athenian Embassies to the Greeks Between 348 and 346 -- 4. When Did the Spondophoroi Report the Phocian Refusal? -- 5. The Thracian Fortresses -- 6. The Date of Philocrates' Speech in Favor of Peace with Philip -- 7. Aeschines and the Third Embassy -- 8. The Chronology of Events from 344 to 340 -- 9. The Legal Grounds for Aeschines' Objection to Antiphon's Arrest -- 10. Two Recent Views of Aeschines' Prosecution of Ctesiphon in 330 -- 11. Philip's Relationship with the Thessalians -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- X.

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