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War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens

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Cambridge University Press, 28 janv. 2010 - 317 pages
Every Athenian alliance, every declaration of war, and every peace treaty was instituted by a decision of the assembly, where citizens voted after listening to speeches that presented varied and often opposing arguments about the best course of action. The fifteen preserved assembly speeches of the mid-fourth century BC thus provide an unparalleled body of evidence for the way that Athenians thought and felt about interstate relations: to understand this body of oratory is to understand how the Athenians of that period made decisions about war and peace. This 2010 book provides a comprehensive treatment of this subject. It deploys insights from a range of fields, from anthropology to international relations theory, in order not only to describe Athenian thinking, but also to explain it. Athenian thinking turns out to have been complex, sophisticated, and surprisingly familiar both in its virtues and its flaws.
  

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Table des matières

Introduction
1
Economics
27
Militarism
51
The unequal treatment of states
72
Household metaphors
108
Defense and attack
134
Calculations of interest
154
Reciprocity
185
Peace
237
Conclusion
265
Speeches and texts
270
Plato and Aristotle on the causes of war
276
Claims of service
279
References
283
Index
309
Droits d'auteur

Legalism
215

Expressions et termes fréquents

À propos de l'auteur (2010)

Peter Hunt is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has taught at Vassar and Davidson Colleges, the University of Colorado, and Harvard University, and his publications include articles in top academic journals and edited collections. His first book was Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians (Cambridge, 1998).

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