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The literary evidence for the Athenian empire is all too limited: Thucydides, surveying the growth of Athenian power in 1.89–118 to explain the origins of the Peloponnesian War, and returning frequently to the theme of Athenian power in the remainder of his history, but not seeing fit to tell us many things which he could have told us and which we should like to be told; contemporary reactions to the empire from Ps.-Xenophon and Aristophanes, and retrospective reactions from Plato and the Attic orators; the accounts of later prose writers, especially the history of Diodorus Siculus (1st cent. B.C.) and the relevant Lives of Plutarch (c. A.D. 100). It is a well-known and well-studied body of evidence, and in 1972 R. Meiggs was able to remark that ‘fifty years ago it was reasonable to think that nothing significantly new could be written about the Athenian Empire.’
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Modern books cited in the notes to this chapter will be cited subsequently by author’s name only, except where some other form of reference is indicated at their first mention. In references to literary texts, chapters of Pausanias and of Plutarch’s Lives are subdivided into sections as in the latest Teubner editions (some editions, including the Loeb, use a different subdivision). For inscriptions I normally give one reference, where possible to IG (n. 14, below): equivalent references to A.T.L., ii (n. 4), to M&L (n. 17) and to the translations of Fornara (n. 20) may be obtained from the Comparative Table on pp. 46-7.
I should like to thank Dr. N. S. R. Hornblower for reading a draft of this booklet, and the University of Durham for a grant from its Research Fund.