Conon the Athenian Warfare and Politics in the Aegean, 414–386 B.C.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TABLE OF CONTENT
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION. FROM SICILY TO CNIDUS: NAVAL WARFARE, GRAND STRATEGY, AND THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER IN THE AEGEAN SEA.
CHAPTER ONE. FROM NAUPACTUS TO SAMOS: CONON THE DEMOCRATIC STRATEGOS
	THE BATTLE OF NOTIUM AND CONON STRATEGOS AUTOKRATOR
	THE PATH TO ASCENDANCY: CONON FROM NAUPACTUS TO NOTIUM, 414–407
		Conon’s Appointments at Naupactus, 414–411
		Conon’s Activity in 407/6: The Siege of Andros
		Conon’s Deeds and those of his Counterparts
	POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY, POLITICAL FACTIONS, AND THE APPOINTMENT OF ATHENIAN GENERALS
		Military Success and Political Legitimacy in Democratic Athens: The Problem of the Metabole at Samos
		Non-Athenians in the Samian “ekklesia”?
		Conon the Democratic Strategos, or why the Hellespontine Generals were not Suitable Leaders for the Restored Democracy
		Conclusion: Democratic Culture, Military Success and Political Ascendancy
CHAPTER TWO. CONON AT SAMOS AND THE END OF THE WAR
	INTRODUCTION. RELIEF AND DISASTER, WAR AND POLITICS IN ATHENS FROM NOTIUM TO THE ARGINUSAE
	THE ATHENIANS IN THE AEGAEAN AFTER NOTIUM: FIGHTING A LOST WAR?
		Strategos Autokrator: The Role of Plenipotentiary Generals and Conon’s Rank and Duties at Samos
	THE BLOCKADE OF MYTILENE AND THE BATTLE OF ARGINSUAE
		The Blockade of Mytilene
		The Social and Political Costs of the Battle of Arginusae
		Conon and the Trial of the Generals
		Conon and the Athenian Fleet after Arginusae
		Facing Decisions: Sparta and Athens after the Trial of the Generals
		The Command at Samos after the Trial of the Generals
	AEGOSPOTAMI
		The Path to Aegospotami
		The Battle and Its Controversies
		CONON AND THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR: SOME FINAL REMARKS
CHAPTER THREE. CONON IN ASIA, I. FROM ‘PRIVATE CITIZEN’ TO PERSIAN ADMIRAL
	THE AEGEAN SEA AFTER THE BATTLE OF AEGOSPOTAMI
		Athens from the Naval Disaster to the Appointment of the Thirty
		Sparta as a Sea Power
		Persia and Sparta from the Sicilian Expedition to the Campaign of Thibron
	ATHENS AND CYPRUS, CONON AND EVAGORAS
		Conon’s Flight to Cyprus and Athenian Democracy
		Why Cyprus? Why Evagoras?
		Evagoras and Conon from Notium to Aegospotami
		Conon in Salamis
		Conon, Evagoras and the ‘War of the Two Brothers’
	CONON THE PERSIAN ADMIRAL
		Spartan Campaigns in Persia to the Winter of 399/398
		Winter 398/397: The ‘Grand Strategy’ of Pharnabazus: Satrapal Rivalry and the Appointment of Conon at the Head of the Persian fleet
		Conon’s Appointment and Persian Internal Affairs
CHAPTER FOUR. CONON IN ASIA, II. GRAND STRATEGY AND THE WAR AGAINST SPARTA
	FROM THE PREPARATION OF THE NEW FLEET TO THE DEMOCRATIC COUP IN RHODES (WINTER 398/397 TO SUMMER 395)
		Conon’s Naval Activity to the Summer of 395
		The Two Fronts of the War against Sparta
	THE PATH TO CNIDUS (SUMMER 395 – SUMMER 394)
		Agesilaus’ New Powers and the Fall of Tissaphernes: Warfare and Politics in the Eastern Aegean
		Conon, the Persian Fleet and a Funding Crisis
	THE BATTLE OF CNIDUS
		Agesilaus Withdraws from Asia
		The Battle of Cnidus (Summer 394) and the Changing Nature of Warfare
	CHAPTER FIVE. AFTER CNIDUS: THE PATH TO THE KOINE EIRENE
		THE AFTERMATH OF CNIDUS AND THE PROBLEM OF HEGEMONY
			Conon and Pharnabazus in the Aegean
			The Aftermath of Cnidus: Conon between Athens and Persia
			Conon’s Return to Athens and the Supposed Resurgence of Athenian Imperialism
			Empire and the Problem with Persia
		REDEFINING THE BALANCE OF POWER IN THE AEGEAN
	CONCLUSION
	BIBLIOGRAPHY
	INDEX OF NAMES