VINCENT AZOULAY is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the current director of the international bilingual journal of the Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Prix du livre d'histoire du Sénat (2011). He is the author of several books already translated in English: Pericles of Athens (2014), The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens (2017) and Xenophon and the Graces of Power (2018). PAULIN ISMARD is Professor of Ancient Greek History at Aix-Marseille University. He is a former member of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has received several awards: the Prix du livre d'histoire du Sénat (2014), Grand Prix des Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire de Blois (2016) and Prix François Millepierres de l'Académie Française (2016). He is also the author of Democracy's Slaves. A Political History of Ancient Greece (2017), La cité et ses esclaves (2019) and Les mondes de l'esclavage. Une histoire comparée (2021).

• Introduction. Towards a choral history; 1. Critias and the oligarchs; 2. Thrasybulus and the democratic resistance; 3. Archinus or the victory of the 'moderates'; 4. Socrates and the voices of neutrality; 5. Lysimache: the priestess of Athena and her doubles; 6. Eutherus and the precarious workers; 7. Hegeso or the family torn asunder; 8. Gerys and the world of the merchant agora; 9. Nicomachus and the servants of the city; 10. Lysias, a multi-faceted man; Conclusion. The city in chorus.

'In Athens 403BC Azoulay and Ismard have produced a superb study of the critical period defined by the brief ascendancy and rapid fall of the Thirty in the aftermath of Athens' defeat in 403 BC. This is an original study with a distinctive voice and a compelling thesis.' Jeremy McInerney, University OF Pennsylvania

VINCENT AZOULAY is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the current director of the international bilingual journal of the Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Prix du livre d'histoire du Sénat (2011). He is the author of several books already translated in English: Pericles of Athens (2014), The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens (2017) and Xenophon and the Graces of Power (2018). PAULIN ISMARD is Professor of Ancient Greek History at Aix-Marseille University. He is a former member of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has received several awards: the Prix du livre d'histoire du Sénat (2014), Grand Prix des Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire de Blois (2016) and Prix François Millepierres de l'Académie Française (2016). He is also the author of Democracy's Slaves. A Political History of Ancient Greece (2017), La cité et ses esclaves (2019) and Les mondes de l'esclavage. Une histoire comparée (2021).

• Introduction. Towards a choral history; 1. Critias and the oligarchs; 2. Thrasybulus and the democratic resistance; 3. Archinus or the victory of the 'moderates'; 4. Socrates and the voices of neutrality; 5. Lysimache: the priestess of Athena and her doubles; 6. Eutherus and the precarious workers; 7. Hegeso or the family torn asunder; 8. Gerys and the world of the merchant agora; 9. Nicomachus and the servants of the city; 10. Lysias, a multi-faceted man; Conclusion. The city in chorus.

'In Athens 403BC Azoulay and Ismard have produced a superb study of the critical period defined by the brief ascendancy and rapid fall of the Thirty in the aftermath of Athens' defeat in 403 BC. This is an original study with a distinctive voice and a compelling thesis.' Jeremy McInerney, University OF Pennsylvania

VINCENT AZOULAY is Director of Studies at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. He is a former member of the Institut Universitaire de France and the current director of the international bilingual journal of the Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales. He has been awarded several prizes, including the Prix du livre d'histoire du Sénat (2011). He is the author of several books already translated in English: Pericles of Athens (2014), The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens (2017) and Xenophon and the Graces of Power (2018). PAULIN ISMARD is Professor of Ancient Greek History at Aix-Marseille University. He is a former member of the Harvard Center for Hellenic Studies and of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He has received several awards: the Prix du livre d'histoire du Sénat (2014), Grand Prix des Rendez-Vous de l'Histoire de Blois (2016) and Prix François Millepierres de l'Académie Française (2016). He is also the author of Democracy's Slaves. A Political History of Ancient Greece (2017), La cité et ses esclaves (2019) and Les mondes de l'esclavage. Une histoire comparée (2021).

• Introduction. Towards a choral history; 1. Critias and the oligarchs; 2. Thrasybulus and the democratic resistance; 3. Archinus or the victory of the 'moderates'; 4. Socrates and the voices of neutrality; 5. Lysimache: the priestess of Athena and her doubles; 6. Eutherus and the precarious workers; 7. Hegeso or the family torn asunder; 8. Gerys and the world of the merchant agora; 9. Nicomachus and the servants of the city; 10. Lysias, a multi-faceted man; Conclusion. The city in chorus.

'In Athens 403BC Azoulay and Ismard have produced a superb study of the critical period defined by the brief ascendancy and rapid fall of the Thirty in the aftermath of Athens' defeat in 403 BC. This is an original study with a distinctive voice and a compelling thesis.' Jeremy McInerney, University OF Pennsylvania