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  The Eyesore of the Aigina
Edited by Anton Powell and Katerina Meidani
ISBN: 9781905125593, pp275, Hardback
 
Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others - whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans - saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the political power of Athens in countless wars over several centuries, but that there existed an intriguing variety of anti-Athenian ideologies. This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and casts light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.



The Contributors
Kostas Buraselis, Christy Constantakopoulou, John K. Davies, Martin Dreher, Dorothy Figueira, Thomas J. Figueira, Nikos Giannakopoulos, Ioanna Kralli , Dominique Lenfant, Lynette Mitchell, Maria Plastira--Valkanou, Anton Powel
 

Contents

Introduction

Acknowledgements

1. The allies’ viewpoint on the Athenian empire: the evidence of Plutarch’s Lives - Dominique Lenfant

2. Aigina: island as paradigm and counter-paradigm - Thomas Figueira

3. Aiginetan attitudes (c.500–424BC): Athens as eyesore? - Anton Powell

4. Anti-Athenian attitudes in fifth-century Sicily? - Lynette Mitchell

5. Theopompos on Athenian policies and politicians - John Davies

6. Anti-Athenian attitudes and the Second Athenian Confederacy - Martin Dreher

7. The shaping of the past: local history and fourth-century Delian reactions to Athenian imperialism - Christy Constantakopolou

8. In the shadow of Pydna: incorrigible Athens as an opportunity for the Achaeans - Kostas Buraselis

9. Attitudes to Hellenistic Athens: to sneer or to revere? - Ioanna Kralli

10. The image of Athenians in the Greek epigram - Maria Plastira-Valkanou

11. Condemning the Athenian past, rejecting the Athenian present: aspects of anti-Athenian discourses in the early imperial period - Nikos Giannakopoulos

12. Reading Greece: travel narratives, aesthetic sensibilities, and the Aiginetan marbles - Dorothy Figueira

Index