Option 2: Delian League to Athenian Empire
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- Delian League to Athenian Empire
- The origins and development of the Delian League
- The growth of Athenian imperialism: rebellions and reactions (Samos, Mytilene, Melos, Sicily).
- The results of Empire, both for Athens and her allies, specifically tribute, its organisation and collection; the significance of inscriptional evidence.
- Methods of control, both military and political.
- Athenian and allied views of the Empire; and the importance of Thucydides as a source for these.
- Literary sources:
- Aristophanes, Birds 1035-42
- Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 23.4-5
- The Old Oligarch
- Plutarch, Aristides 23, 24.1-5
- Plutarch, Pericles 12.1-5
- Thucydides, The pentaconteteia, The Mytilene Debate, The Melian Dialogue
- H.D.F. Kitto, The Greeks
- Russell Meiggs, The Athenian Empire.
- Pamela Bradley, Ancient Greece
- Archaeological Sources
- Chalcis Decree
- Cleinias Decree
- Methone Decree
- Standards Decree
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