The first volume is devoted to the period which begins with the era of Greek colonization and ends with the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B. C. Charles Fornara has gathered together material compiled from inscriptions, ancient encyclopedias, scholia, and similar sources. The material, much of it translated by him for the first time, covers not only events of national significance - wars and treaties, the founding of towns and colonies, the dedication of temples - but also presents such records of daily life as ration lists, wine trade regulations, inventories of treasure, drinking songs, and financial records. The documents are accompanied by a brief commentary, which is basically intended to clarify obscurities in the text. An extensive glossary and indexes explain obscure terms of Greek social and governmental structure and permit detailed prosopographical analysis. This 1983 book will be welcomed by students and teachers of ancient history.

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Product details
- Edition: 2nd Edition
- Date Published: April 1983
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521299466
- length: 268 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 15 mm
- weight: 0.39kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Preface to the second edition
Volume editor's introduction
Abbreviations
1. Ancient chronology
2. The date of Lykourgos of Sparta
3. The establishment of the Olympic Games
4. Pheidon of Agros
5. The foundation of Naxos and Megara in Sicily
6. The foundation of Croton
7. The Lelantine War
8. The use of the word tyrant
9. The foundation of Tarentum by the Partheniai of Sparta
10. Orthagoras, Tyrant of Sicyon
11. Law of the city of Dreros (Crete)
12. Tyrtaeus of Sparta, the Messenian Wars, and the Great Rhetra
13. Spartan treatment of helots
14. Memorial to a Locrain proxenos at Corcyra
15. Drakon's law on homicide
16. The first sacred War
17. Battos, the founder of Cyrene
18. The foundation of Cyrene
19. Law from Chios
20. Gravestone of Phanodikos of Prokonnesos
21. Epitaph of the Corinthians who died at Salamis
22. The Athenian naukrariai
23. The Athenian archon list
24. Greek mercenaries in Egyptian service
25. Alliance between Elis and Heraia in Western Arcadia
26. The establishment of the Panathenaic festival
27. Spartan treaty with Tegea
28. Kroisos' gifts to the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
29. Treaty between Sybaris and the Serdaioi
30. The wives of Hippias and Hipparchos, the sons of Peisistratos of Athens
31. The nature of Peisistratos' rule
32. Polykrates, Tyrant of Samos
33. Law from a Locrain community settling new territory
34. A list of Dareios' subjects
35. Letter of Dareios
36. An argive rule about the use of sacred treasures
37. Dedication of peisistratos son of Hippias
38. A Spartan dedication
39. The liberation of Athens
40. The rebuilding of the Temple at Delphi by the Alkmeonidai
41. Ostracism at Athens
42. Epigrams celebrating an Athenian victory over Boeotia and Chalcis
43. Dedication of the Athenian portico at Delphi
44. Athenian klerouchy at Salamis
45. Rations for Ionian mothers working at Persepolis
46. An Ionian contractor at Persepolis
47. Law of the Eastern (Hypocnemidian) Locrians about their colony at Naupactus
48. The Persian cavalry at Marathon
49. Dedication of Kallimachos
50. Athenian thank-offering for Marathon
51. Athenian epigrams on the Persian wars
52. The Greek embassy to Gelon
53. A supplication by Corinthian women during Xerxes' war
54. Gelon's thank-offering for the victory at Himera
55. The decree of Themistokles
56. Contribution of the Naxians to the war effort against the Persians
57. Oath of the Athenians taken betore the Battle of Plataea
58. The number of the Athenian dead at Plataca
59. Greek thank-offering for victory in the Persian War
60. Megarian memorial of the Persian War
61. Pausanias, regent of Sparta, and his actions after the victory at Plataea
62. Attempts at colonizing Ennea Hodoi in Thrac
63. Regulations of the Teians
64. Hieron's thank-offering for the victory at Cumae
65. Themistokles' ostracism and flight to Persia
66. Political expulsions from Miletus
67. The Messenian Revolt
68. Athenian relations with Phaselis
69. The ban against Arthmios of Zeleia
70. A Halicarnassian law concerning disputed property
71. Regulations imposed by the Athenians on Erythrae
72. Egypt rebels from Persia
73. Spartan aid to Thebes
74. Perikles' oratory
75. Athenian regulation of the Eleusinian Mysteries
76. Kimon's return from ostracism
77. Samians fight in Egypt
78. Casualty list of the Erechtheid tribe of Athens
79. The building of the Long Walls and the Middle Wall at Athens
80. Thank-offering by the Lacedaemonians for the victory at Tanagra
81. Alliance of Athens and Egesta
82. Athenian compact involving the Delphic Amphictyony or Phocis
83. Dedication of Athenian knights
84. Tolmides' circumnavigation of the Peloponnesus
85. The first tribute quota list of 454/3 B.C.
86. Limitation of Athenian citizenship
87. Treaty between Oianthia and Chalcion, and law of Chaleion
88. The civil l
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Editor and Translator
Charles W. Fornara, Brown University, Rhode Island