Lynette Mitchell is Senior Lecturer in Classics & Ancient History at the University of Exeter. Lene Rubinstein is Professor of Ancient History at Royal Holloway.

• Introduction (Lynette Mitchell and Lene Rubinstein); The rules of the game: three studies in friendship, equality and politics (Lynette Mitchell); City elites and the administration of the Attalid kingdom after the peace of Apameia evidence, research and methodological thoughts (Boris Dreyer); Andragathia and arUte (David Whitehead);The crowning of Amphiaraos (Adele C. Scafuro); Nothing to do with democracy: aeFormulae of DisclosureAe and the Athenian epigraphic habit (James Sickinger); The politics of an epigraphic habit: the case of Thasos (Robin Osborne); Ateleia grants and their enforcement in the Classical and early Hellenistic periods (Lene Rubinstein); A Note on Agyrrhios' Grain-Tax Law of 374/3 (Mogens Herman Hansen); Attic public inscriptions of the fifth-century BC in Ionic script (A.P. Matthaiou); The Gadatas letter (Christopher Tuplin); Unpublished ephebic list in the Benakion museum of Kalamata (Andronike Makres); Athenian ostracism and ostraka: some historical and statistical observations (Valerij Gushchin); Thucydides and the Athenian boule (Council of Five Hundred) (Simon Hornblower); IG ii2 236 and PhilipAes common peace of 337 (Ian Worthington); Writing Greek history: an agenda for the next generation (J.K. Davies).