Inhaltsangabe:
  • Sovereignty regained: oligarchs vs. democrats
  • Sovereignty regained : foreign policy
  • Sovereignty lost : at home and abroad
  • By land and sea
  • From taxation to benefaction
  • Philokleon would not be amused
  • Farewell Strepsiades, bonjour tristesse : the peasant leaves the stage
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix 1: The sources of information for the fourth and early-third centuries
  • Appendix 2: Historical outline.