@inbook{10.3138/9781442688018.13,
 ISBN = {9780802090690},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/9781442688018.13},
 abstract = {An important target of the fourth-century BC historian Theopompos’ often vitriolicPhilippikawas fifth-century Athens, the subject of one of his notorious digressions (FGrHist115 FF 153–6). I do not intend to examine here what can be discerned from it of Theopompos’ political views, because Michael Flower has demonstrated convincingly that they are typical of the fourth-century intellectual elite, with a hostility to democracy, a preference for oligarchy, and a partiality for pre-fourth-century Sparta.¹ Instead, I shall argue that Theopompos takes the first critical look at inscriptions as imperialistic documents, for in two of the four preserved fragments from},
 author = {FRANCES POWNALL},
 booktitle = {Epigraphy and the Greek Historian},
 pages = {119--128},
 publisher = {University of Toronto Press},
 title = {Theopompos and the Public Documentation of Fifth-Century Athens},
 volume = {47},
 year = {2008}
}