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This chapter begins with a case study that illustrates an abiding Greek concern with peace and just war. It discusses three examples that illustrate intense Greek efforts in the late fifth and fourth centuries to achieve peace by containing endemic inter-communal war and overcoming civil strife (stasis). The chapter then shows that we need to ...
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Jan 13, 2022 · The normative event of Greek history was a conflict that may never have taken place: the Trojan War. 1 What really happened in that city in northwestern Anatolia we may never know, but few if any ancient Greeks doubted that a formidable host had sailed east from Greece, if not precisely the 1,186 ships catalogued in the Iliad, at least a very large number.
Furthermore, against the common modern perception that Greek cities experienced only limited periods of formally contracted non-aggression, many states, Athenians and Spartans included, concluded treaties and peace agreements that had no time limit, or indeed were intended to endure ‘for ever’. 9 Thus did the people of Sybaris commit themselves to friendship with the Serdaioi (c. 550 BC ...
Kurt Raaflaub addresses ancient Greece within ‘Greek Concepts and Theories of Peace’ (122-57). From the start of Greek literature, the Iliad, he postulates that the Greeks had ‘developed procedures to … avoid war and resolve conflicts peacefully‘ (125), though they were not always successful. He goes on to explain that the Greeks had ...
A Cultural History of Peace presents an authoritative survey from ancient times to the present. The set of six volumes covers over 2500 years of history, charting the evolving nature and role of ...
Matt Qvortrup argues that Aristotle’s political philosophy is surprisingly modern. The son of a doctor, Aristotle was born in the city of Stagira in Macedonia in the year 384 BC, and was educated at Plato’s Academy. When his mentor Plato died in 347 BC, the Macedonian went home and became the tutor of Alexander, the son of King Philip of ...
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by war and, correspondingly, a strong desire for peace pervades Greek litera-ture. The evidence has been collected by others and is mostly well familiar.2 Hence I can be brief. Strong awareness of these issues is visible already in epic and, to a lesser degree, in lyric poetry. We need think only, in the Iliad, of the hatred the
