The Defense of Attica
  ABBREVIATIONS
  PREFACE

 collapse sectionPART ONE  INTRODUCTION
 collapse sectionOne  The Study of Attic Fortifications
 •The Nature of The Evidence and the Nature of the Problem
 •Closing the Gates of Attica?
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 •Territorial Defense and History

 collapse sectionPART TWO  THE DEMA WALL
 collapse sectionTwo  The Dema Wall, Form and Function
 •Location and Description
 •Archaeological Evidence for the Date of the Dema Wall
 •The Tactical Purpose of the Dema Wall
 •The Northern Sector
 collapse sectionThree  The Dema Tower
 •Location
 •The Tower Enclosure
 •Stratigraphy
 •Secondary Walls
 •The Tower
 •Finds
 collapse sectionBlack-Glazed Pottery
 •1. Cup with high-swung handles Figure A, Figure 29
 •2. Cup Figure A
 •3. Bowl with incurved rim Figure A, Figure 29
 •4. Bowl Figure A
 •5. Small bowl Figure A, Figure 29
 •6. Squat aryballos Figure A, Figure 29
 •7. Skyphos Figure A
 •8. Kantharos Figure A
 collapse sectionLamps
 •9. Roman lamp Figure 29
 •10. Late Roman lamp Figure 29
 •11. Late Roman lamp Figure 29
 collapse sectionCoarse Wares
 •12. Water pitcher Figure A
 •13. Water pitcher Figure A
 •14. Transport/storage amphora Figure B, Figure 30
 •15. Transport/storage amphora Figure B, Figure 30
 •16. Transport/storage amphora
 •17. Basin
 •18. Beehive kalathos lid Figure 31
 •19. Beehive kalathos lid Figure 30
 •20. Internally combed beehive kalathoi Figure 31
 collapse sectionMiscellaneous
 •21. Incised gameboard on roof tile Figure C, Figure 32
 •22. Incised gameboards on roof tile Figure C, Figure 33
 •23. Incised roof tile Figure C, Figure 32
 •24. Lakonian-type roof tiles Figure D
 •25. Twisted lead strip Figure 33
 •Discussion
 •The Secondary Structures
 •Later Activity
 •First Phase: The Tower
 •Purpose of the Dema Tower
 collapse sectionFour  The Date of the Dema Wall
 •The Strategic Purpose of the Dema Wall.
 •Contemporary Principles of Territorial Defense
 •Limits of the Archaeological Evidence
 •Alterative Historical Occasions
 •Conclusions

 collapse sectionPART THREE  THE BOIOTIAN WAR
 collapse sectionFive  The Defense of Attica, 378-375 B.C.
 •Sources
 •Anticipation
 •Precipation
 •Second Thoughts
 •Consequences
 •Reckoning the Balance
 •Agesilaos and the Campaign of 378
 •Chabrias and the Campaign of 378
 •The Campaign of 377
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 •The Closing of Kithairon
 •The Peace of 375
 •Posterity

 collapse sectionPART FOUR  POSTSCRIPT
 •Six  The Defense of Attica in the Fourth Century

 collapse sectionAPPENDICES
 collapse sectionAppendix I  The Dema Wall Saltcellar
 •Concave-walled saltcellar Figure 43
 •Appendix II  Fighting in the Aigaleos-Parnes Gap in 1826-27
 collapse sectionAppendix III  Chabrias and His Mercenaries, 379/8
 •The Recall of Chabrias
 •Chabrias' Election As General
 •Chabrias' Peltasts
 •The Size of Chabrias' Mercenary Force
 •Appendix IV  Xenophon and Diodoros on the Surrender of the Kadmeia
 •Appendix V  Isokrates 14, Plataikos, and Rhetorical Distortion
 •Appendix VI  Spartan, Theban, and Athenian Forces in 378
 •Appendix VII  The Treaty of 375—Bilateral or Multilateral?
  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES
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  INDEX OF GREEK TERMS
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