JOHN BUCKLER is Emeritus Professor of Greek History. Selected publications include The Theban Hegemony, 371-362 B.C. (1980), Philip II and the Sacred War (1989) and Aegean Greece in the Fourth Century B.C. (2003).
Prologue: power politics in fourth-century Greece
Part I. Alliance: 1. A survey of Theban and Athenian relations between 403 and 371 BC
2. The incident at Mt. Parnassus, 395 BC
3. The Battle of Coronea and its historiographical legacy
4. The King's Peace, alliance, and Phoebidas' strike (382 BC)
5. Sphodrias' raid and the evolution of the Athenian League
Part II. Hegemony: 6. The re-establishment of the boeotarchia (378 BC)
7. The Battle of Tegyra, 375 BC
8. Plutarch on Leuctra
9. Alliance and hegemony in fourth-century Greece: the case of the Theban hegemony
10. Xenophon's speeches and the Theban hegemony
11. The phantom synedrion of the Boeotian Confederacy, 378-335 BC
12. Boeotian Aulis and Greek naval bases
13. Epaminondas and the new Inscription from Cnidus
Part III. Domination: 14. Thebes, Delphi, and the outbreak of the Sacred War
15. Pammenes, the Persians, and the Sacred War
16. Philip II, the Greeks, and the King, 346-336 BC
17. A note on the Battle of Chaeronea
18. Philip's designs on Greece
19. Epilogue.
