The 360s BC were a momentous decade in the North Aegean when Athens set out to recover cities she had controlled at the height of her empire in the fifth century Amphipolis and the Thracian Chersonese Setting out in detail the chronology and narrative of the wars over Amphipolis and Chersonese the author argues that Athens efforts proved unfruitful because several other major powers Olynthus Macedon Thrace Thebes and Persia had similar expansi...