The peace of Philokrates to the Archonship of Philippos: Athens rebuffs Artaxerxes’ approach

With the exception of one fragment from Androtion (F53), all the entries in this chapter derive from Philokhoros. It is a rather unfortunate indication of the lack of interest on the part of later writers in the history of Athens in the third century that only two fragments possibly dating from that period have been preserved. This was a period which Philokhoros treated in great detail, since he devoted the last eight of his seventeen books to the forty years from 302/1 to 262/1. The loss of those books seriously impairs our ability to write an intelligent history of these crucial years.