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This book analyzes the defense policy of Athens in the period after the Peloponnesian War. In order to counter new offensive strategies and to protect vital local sources of revenue, the Athenians instituted a system of territorial defense, based on massive frontier fortresses and a sophisticated signal network. Individual chapters treat Athens' postwar economic situations, the development of Greek military science, the rise of a defensive mentality among the Athenian citizens, theorectical literature on defense, and Athens' military establishment. A major section is devoted to detailed descriptions of the land routes into Attica and of all ancient fortresses, towers, and military highways in the frontier zones. Concluding chapters demonstrate how the defense system worked in practic.

History of ancient Greece --- Athens --- Military art and science --- Art et science militaires --- History --- Histoire --- Attike (Greece) --- Attique (Grèce) --- Defenses --- Défenses --- Attikē (Greece) --- -Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- War --- -Defenses --- History. --- -History --- Attique (Grèce) --- Défenses --- Attiki, Greece --- Atiki (Greece) --- Attica (Greece) --- Attika (Greece) --- Attikēs Nomos (Greece) --- Attiki (Greece) --- Attikis Nomos (Greece) --- Attique (Greece) --- Periféreia Attikís (Greece) --- Periphereia Attikēs (Greece) --- Region of Attica (Greece) --- Αττική (Greece) --- Defenses. --- Attikè (Greece) --- History [Military ] --- Fortification --- Military antiquities --- Military art and science. --- Military readiness. --- Armaments --- Defense readiness --- Defenses, National --- Military preparedness --- National defenses --- Preparedness (Military science) --- Readiness (Military science) --- Military policy --- Arms control --- Arms race --- Disarmament --- Manpower --- Fighting --- Attikē (Greece) --- Greece. --- Greece --- al-Yūnān --- Ancient Greece --- Ellada --- Ellas --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grčija --- Grèce --- Grecia --- Gret͡sii͡ --- Griechenland --- Hellada --- Hellas --- Hellenic Republic --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Kingdom of Greece --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Xila --- Yaṿan --- Yūnān