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Acknowledgments
Telistoftheauthor)sdebtsofgratitudeisalongone.
Teideasunderlyingthisbookcameintobeingovertimeintheformida-
bleintellectualatmosphereoftheDepartmentofAncientHistory,Universityof
Warsaw,directedfirstbyodzimierzLengauer,andthenbyAdamZiółkowski.
BenedettoBravo,RyszardKulesza,KrystynaStebnickaandMarekWęcowski
allreadearlierdrafsofparticularchapters.JonLendonandKurtRaaflaubdis-
cussedwithmesomekeyproblems.MaciejDaszutaprovidedmewithmany
booksandarticlesunavailableinWarsawlibraries.AgrantfromtheDeBrzezie
LanckoronskiFoundationallowedmetospendsummerof2008inthecomfort-
ableconditionsofLondon)svariouslibraries,whichwascrucialtothecrystalliza-
tionofthemainthesisofthisbook.
AferthePolishbookhadbeenpublishedasmyHabilitationschrif(2012),
Iprofitedmuchfromthecriticalremarksofmyreviewers:RyszardKulesza,
KrzysztofNawotka,MarcinPawlakandawomirSprawskiaswellasfromfurther
discussionswithBenedettoBravoandAdamZiółkowskiwhocommunicatedto
metheirdisagreementonsomemajorandmanyminorpoints.Somenewinsights
inchapters2.3and4areduetotheresponseIreceivedduringthediscussions
accompanyinglecturesIgavein2013attheseminarsofFrançoisdePolignac
andCléoCarastro,respectively,atANHIMAResearchCenterinParis.Finally,
IbenefitedfromthepeerreviewsIreceivedfromthepublishers.
Duetoallthiscritique,ImadesomechangesinEnglishversionofmybook
clarifyingargumentsandcorrectingobviouserrors.InsomeplacesthePolish
originalwasexpanded.Iupdatedthebibliographyandtooksomenewstudiesinto
account(thoughsomeomissionsremain,themostimportantbeingCh.Wolf,
SpartaunddiepeloponnesicheStaatenweltinarchaischerundklassischerZeit,
München2010,whichIwasabletoreadonlyrecently).