Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World

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Peace and Reconciliation in the Classical World
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of illustrations
	Figures
	Table
List of abbreviations
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1: Introduction: imagining, establishing, and instituting peace
	Notes
PART I: Imagining peace in the ancient world
Chapter 2: Solon the peacemaker
	Notes
Chapter 3: Aristotle on peace: biological, political, ethical, and metaphysical dimensions
	Notes
Chapter 4: (What’s so funny ’bout) peace, love, and understanding?
Imagining peace in Greek comedy
	Peace?
	Love?
	Understanding?
	Conclusion: what’s so funny?
	Notes
Chapter 5: Reconciliation in later Classical and post-Classical Greek
cities: a question of peace and peacefulness?
	Introduction
	Two analogous pairs: polemos and eirene, stasis, and homonoia
	Homonoia as a special type of reconciliation and peace, particularly complex and intense
	A later Hellenistic and early Imperial alternative approach to reconciliation and civic order, and their relationship with peace
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 6: Negotiating ideas of peace in the civil conflicts
of the late Republic
	The language of war and peace
	Possibilities of peace
	The impossibility of peace?
	The triumph of peace
	Notes
Chapter 7: Peace and empire: pacare, pacatus, and the language of
Roman imperialism
	Pacare, pacatus, and the Roman Imperial imagination
	Notes
Chapter 8: Blessed are the peacemakers: visions of Christian peace
from Christ to Constantine
	Notes
PART II: Establishing peace in the ancient world
Chapter 9: Cyrus the Great: an unconventional peacemaker
	Neo-Assyrian kings and the use of religion in conquest
	Cyrus the Great and the use of religion in conquest
	Notes
Chapter 10: International arbitration in Archaic Greece
	Introduction: clearing confusion and posing a puzzle
	The link between aisymnētai and international arbitration
	The optimum point for submission to arbitration
	The role of Delphi in nominating arbiters
	Conclusion: the decline of individual arbiters
	Notes
Chapter 11: Once an ally, always an ally: Sparta’s approach to
policing the oaths of her allies in the late fifth and
early fourth centuries
	The Spartans and their allies and the ‘rules’ of Greek interstate agreements
	Sparta and her allies: old oaths have priority
	When Sparta’s allies refuse to obey: Spartan weakness or Spartan patience?
	Once an ally, always an ally: the retrospective punishment of Elis
	Retrospective and pre-emptive punishment: Sparta deals with Mantinea
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 12: The compromise of kings: Philip II and Macedonian peace
	Introduction
	Peace of Philocrates (346 bc)
	The League of Corinth
	Conclusion: this king’s peace
	Notes
Chapter 13: Deditio in the second century bc: subjugation and
reconciliation
	Notes
Chapter 14: How wars end: three thoughts on the fall of Jerusalem
	Notes
PART III: Instituting peace in the ancient world
Chapter 15: Identity building as a means of conflict resolution, or:
Thucydides’ struggle with Hellenic discourses
	Thucydides and the Hellenes
	Hermocrates’ speech in Gela
	Modern Peace Studies
	Herodotus’ reference to Homer’s and Hesiod’s gods
	The creation of the Olympian order in the Iliad
	Thucydides’ dilemma
	Notes
Chapter 16: Monuments to victory and symbols of peace and reconciliation? Re-viewing post-war building in Classical Athens and
Achaemenid Persia
	Building peace
	Building peace in fifth century BC Athens
	Building peace in Achaemenid Persia
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 17: Peace and reconciliation, Athenian-style
	Notes
Chapter 18: Beyond war, imperialism, and Panhellenism:
Xenophon’s Eirenic thought
	Xenophon’s rejection of Panhellenic conquest
	The political economy of peace in the Poroi
	Conclusion
	Notes
Chapter 19: Punishment and reconciliation: Augustine
	Notes
Chapter 20: Reading reconciliation in late antique altercationes
	Dialogue, dispute resolution, and reconciliation
	Sympathy for the Luciferians
	Witness for the prosecution
	Conclusion: Strawman has a point?
	Notes
Bibliography
Index