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The idea of the Common Peace (Κοινὴ Εἰρήνη, Koinē Eirēnē) was one of the most influential concepts of 4th century BC Greek political thought, along with the idea of Panhellenism.
The “Common Peace” (koinē eirēnē) is a diplomatic innovation of the 4th century bce. It is a multilateral peace agreement, distinguished by the presence of clauses which offer a range of protections to many (though not all) Greek states; most important among these is the guarantee of autonomia or limited independence.
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 section on ‘common peace’, which occupies the bulk of van Wees’s paper, follows on from Raaflaub’s Greek chapter and focuses on Greek arbitration, treaties and inter-polis organisations.
The original treaty of 346 established peace and an alliance between the two parties: the Athenians and the Second Athenian Confederacy on the one hand, and Philip II and his allies on the other. 1 It has been generally interpreted as a “common peace,” 2 even though some have objected to this definition. 3 The restless Philip, however, then ...
Greeks to put an end to their wars and to conclude Common Peace (KOLwi E'p'Ir7) ; this peace, he adds, was more than five years after the battle of Leuctra. Diodorus' wording is the same as that with which he described the conclusion of Common Peace treaties in 375/4,2 in 371 before Leuctra3 and in 362/I,4 and
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The focus of this chapter is to provide a general survey of Graeco-Roman ideas about war and peace. War was a constant in the classical world, and yet Greek city-states developed a series of primary instruments to promote conflict resolution—from diplomacy, negotiations, and international treaties, to amnesties and arbitration.
