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The war ended in a stalemate, but now the Persians were afraid of the growth of Athenian naval power. So, the king made an alliance with Sparta to bring about the King’s Peace, which emphasized Greek autonomy and which had the effect of breaking up all alliances, except the Peloponnesian League.
Jan 13, 2022 · Irrespective of the historicity of the Greek assault on Troy, the city’s destruction, attested by abundant physical evidence, was part of a wider crisis in the entire Mediterranean and Aegean, where the great Bronze Age civilizations in mainland Greece, on Crete, in Anatolia, all collapsed.
The pursuit of power and peace in ancient Greece 93 maintains that empire without hegemony, or sheer power without legitimacy, is not sustainable in Thucydides' narrative.10 Taken together, Doyle and Lebow's findings reveal the causal significance of legitimately constituted political unity in ancient Greece.
Its premise is that a hegemonic power is necessary to develop and uphold a stable international political and economic order. The theory was developed in the 1970s by Robert Gilpin [73] and Stephen D. Krasner, [74] among others. It has been criticized on both conceptual and empirical grounds.
From the start, the Common Peaces were exploited by Greek states as a vehicle for their hegemonic ambitions or to undermine the hegemonic ambitions of others. However, some have argued that the Common Peaces were not merely a tool of power politics, but also reflect significant developments in Greek attitudes to war, peace, and international law.
Mar 4, 2009 · Using an historiographical approach, the book draws upon texts from Greco-Roman antiquity, and sources from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries to show how the pax ideology has...
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Abstract. This chapter examines the concept of war and peace in ancient Greece. It explains that the Greek word for war, polemos, often retained the physical resonance of fighting, combat or battle and that the Greeks thought of war as an activity that the gods themselves engaged in and approved of.
