The Destruction of Cities in the Ancient Greek World

Sylvian Fachard is Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Lausanne and Director of the Swiss School of Archaeology in Greece. He was the A.W. Mellon Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2017–2020). He has conducted extensive archaeological research in Euboea, Attica, and Argos. Edward M. Harris is Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Durham University and Honorary Professorial Fellow at Edinburgh University. He is the author of Democracy and the Rule of Law in Classical Athens and co-editor of The Ancient Greek Economy and Skilled Labour and Professionalism in Ancient Greece and Rome.

1. Introduction: destruction, survival, and recovery in the ancient Greek world Sylvian Fachard and Edward M. Harris; 2. Destruction, abandon, reoccupation: What Microstratigraphy and Micromorphology tell us Panagiotis Karkanas; 3. Miletus after the disaster of 494 B.C.: Refoundation or recovery? Hans Lohmann; 4. The Persian destruction of Athens: Sources and Archaeology John Mckesson Camp; 5. The Carthaginian conquest and destruction of Selinus in 409 B.C.: Diodorus and archaeology Clemente Marconi; 6. Ancient methone (354 B.C.): Destruction and abandonment Manthos Bessios, Athina Athanassiadou, and Konstantinos Noulas; 7. The destruction of cities in Northern Greece during the Classical and Hellenistic periods: The numismatic evidence Christos Gatzolis and Selene Psoma; 8. Eretria's “destructions” during the Hellenistic period and their impact on the city's development Guy Ackermann (translated by E. M. Harris and S. Fachard); 9. Rhodes ca. 227 B.C.: Destruction and recovery Alain Bresson; 10. Destruction, survival and colonisation: Effects of the Roman arrival to Epirus Björn Forsén; 11. From the destruction of Corinth to Colonia Laus Iulia Corinthiensis Charles K. Williams, Nancy Bookidis, Kathleen W. Slane, and with Stephen Tracy; 12. Sulla and the siege of Athens: Reconsidering crisis, survival, and recovery in the 1st B.C. Dylan K. Rogers; 13. The Herulian invasion in Athens (A.D 267): The archaeological evidence Lamprini Chioti; 14. Epilogue. The survival of cities after military devastation: Comparing the classical Greek and Roman experience John Bintliff; 15. Appendix. The destruction and survival of cities.