Preface
Author's Note
Table of Contents
Maps
Introduction: Stories and Sources
1. Persia and Egypt: The Historical Perspective
2. Persian Success: Conquest and Kingship, 525-518
3. Managing Egypt, 518-415
4. Losing Egypt, 415-400
5. Securing the Eastern Mediterranean, 399-395
6. Into the Aegean, 394-392
7. To Egypt: Preparations and Campaign, 392-387
8. The Egyptian War and the King's Peace, 387-386
9. Egypt Strikes Back: The Cypriot War and the Struggle for the Eastern Mediterranean, 386-379
10. Iphicrates Takes Over, ca. 378-373
11. Pharnabazus and Iphicrates' Egyptian Campaign,
12. Court Politics and the Collapse of the Third Campaign, 372-365
13. Egyptian Strategy Shifts: The Genesis of Tachos' Great Offensive, 364-361
14. Tachos: Campaign and Collapse, 360-359
15. Persian Counterattack?
16. Artaxerxes III: King and Commander, 358-350
17. Loss and Recovery of the Middle Territory, 350-345
18. Persian Success, 344-343
19. From Artaxerxes III to Alexander III
20. East, West, and Far West after the Persians: The Long View
Appendix A. King Lists, Egypt and Persia
Appendix B. Timeline, 525 - 332 B.C.
Abbreviations
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Stephen Ruzicka is Associate Professor of History, at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of Politics of a Persian Dynasty.

Reviews

"Overall, Ruzicka has written an excellent scholarly monograph based on a wide and deep knowledge of the ancient texts and modern scholarship. It is particularly impressive that he produced a very readable narrative history of this complex subject."--Anthony J. Papalas, Bryn Mawr Classical Review