Contrasting verdicts on the Second Athenian Confederacy are presented by G.T. Griffith, “Athens in the Fourth Century,” in Peter Garnsey and C.R. Whittaker (eds.), Imperialism in the Ancient World (1978), pp. 127–144; Jack Cargill, The Second Athenian League: Empire or Free Alliance? (1981); and G.L. Cawkwell, “Notes on the Failure of the Second Athenian Confederacy,” Journal of Hellenic Studies, 101:40–55 (1981), and “Athenian Naval Power in the Fourth Century,” Classical Quarterly, new series, 34(2):334–345 (1984). Mausolus’s role in its breakup is addressed in Simon Hornblower, Mausolus (cited above).
Studies on the Theban hegemony include J.A.O. Larsen, Greek Federal States: Their Institutions and History (1968); G.L. Cawkwell, “Epaminondas and Thebes,” Classical Quarterly, new series, 22:254–278 (1972); and John Buckler, The Theban Hegemony, 371–362 BC (1980).
Thrace in the Classical period is chronicled by Z.H. Archibald, The Odrysian Kingdom of Thrace (1998). The rise of Macedon is portrayed in N.G.L. Hammond, G.T. Griffith, and F.W. Walbank, A History of Macedonia, 3 vol. (1972–88); and R. Malcolm Errington, A History of Macedonia (1990; originally published in German, 1986). Philip and Alexander are placed into historical context by G.L. Cawkwell, Philip of Macedon (1978); and Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos and Louisa D. Loukopoulos (eds.), Philip of Macedon (1980), which includes good pictures of the Vergina tomb discoveries. The curse-tablet from Pella is mentioned in Olivier Masson, “Macedonian Language,” in Simon Hornblower and Antony Spawforth, Oxford Classical Dictionary (cited above). Macedonian personal names and the origins of the Macedonians are explored by Miltiades B. Hatzopoulos, “‘L’Histoire par les noms’ in Macedonia,” in Simon Hornblower and Elaine Matthews, Greek Personal Names (cited above), pp. 99–117. A.B. Bosworth, Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great (1988), is a masterly study, both scholarly and readable; and Robin Lane Fox, Alexander the Great (1973, reissued 2005), is a lively work. A.B. Bosworth, A Historical Commentary on Arrian’s History of Alexander (1980), comments on Arrian’s history of Alexander (the essential ancient source) and necessitates a knowledge of ancient Greek, while his From Arrian to Alexander (1988), and Alexander and the East (1996), are also useful. Alexander’s city-foundations and the tendentious literary tradition are treated by P.M. Fraser, Cities of Alexander the Great (1996).
Fourth-century Greek emigration is discussed well by Paul McKechnie, Outsiders in the Greek Cities in the Fourth Century B.C. (1989, reissued 2015). Greek attitudes to foreigners are explored by Arnoldo Momigliano, Alien Wisdom: The Limits of Hellenization (1975). M.J. Osborne, Naturalization in Athens, 4 vol. in 3 (1981–83), treats grants of citizenship. “Euergetism” is the subject of Paul Veyne, Le Pain et le cirque: Sociologie historique d’un pluralisme politique (1976), also available in an abridged translation, Bread and Circuses (1990). Walter Burkert, Greek Religion (1985; originally published in German, 1977), is a full and brilliant study. Other works may be found in the bibliography of the article Greek religion; but on myth and religion, special mention may be made of Richard Buxton, Imaginary Greece (1994); and the valuable synoptic work by Simon Price, Religions of the Ancient Greeks (1999). Simon Hornblower