Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Achaemenid Persia and the Greeks across the Sea
Traditional Model: Balancing Athens and Sparta
Image of Persian World Supremacy
New Approach: Ambition and Restraint in Persia's Greek Relations
ch. 2 Artaxerxes I and the Athenian Peace
Peace of Kallias: In Search of a Persian Perspective
Costs of Peace: Ionia's Loss and Possible Countermeasures
Savings of Peace: Naval Reduction and Economic Gains
Profits of Peace: Persia's Athenian Trade
Ideology of Peace: Persian Victory and the Athenian Client State
Adherence to Peace: The Cold War Model and the Samian Revolt
ch. 3 Peloponnesian War and the Road to Intervention
Artaxerxes I and the Peloponnesian War
Darius II and Athens: From Philia to Enmity
Sicily, Tribute, and Darius's Intervention
Agents of Intervention: Darius's New Satraps
Negotiating Intervention: The Satraps, Ionia, and Sparta
ch. 4 Tissaphernes's War and the Treaty of 411
Ionian War and Athenian Resilience
Revising the Terms of Alliance
Quarrel with Sparta and Contacts with Athens
ch. 5 King's Navy and the Failure of Satrapal Intervention
Darius's Ships and Tissaphernes's Wages
Ionian Garrison Expulsions
Satraps at the Hellespont
ch. 6 Cyrus the Younger and Spartan Victory
Darius and the Embassy of Boiotios
Cyrus and Spartan Disaster
Cyrus's and Lysander's Road to Victory
Persia's Victory: Costs and Benefits
ch. 7 Artaxerxes II and War with Sparta
Cyrus and the Second Loss of Ionia
Tissaphernes and Spartan Invasion
Naval Escalation and Tissaphernes's Downfall
Tithraustes's Truce and Pharnabazos's Defense of the North
Artaxerxes's Fleet and Victory at Knidos
ch. 8 Persia, the Corinthian War, and the King's Peace
Timokrates's Mission to Greece
Konon and Persian Aid to Athens
Tiribazos's Folly and the Peace Talks of 392
Strouthas and the Failure of Outreach to Athens