War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens

By: Peter Hunt

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Hardcover | 28 January 2010

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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 is the first book to provide 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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Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations, translations, and inscriptions	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Economics	p. 27
Militarism	p. 51
The unequal treatment of states	p. 72
Household metaphors	p. 108
Defense and attack	p. 134
Calculations of interest	p. 154
Reciprocity	p. 185
Legalism	p. 215
Peace	p. 237
Conclusion	p. 265
Speeches and texts	p. 270
Plato and Aristotle on the causes of war	p. 276
Claims of service	p. 279
References	p. 283
Index	p. 309
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