Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece / Julia Wilker.

• Author: Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in the Greek World (Symposium) Harvard University)
• TeilnehmendeR: Wilker, Julia
• Place / Publishing House: [s.l.] : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, 2012.
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 p.)

This volume presents the contributions to a symposium held on May 9th, 2009 at the Humanities Center at Harvard University that focused on the question of how peace and interstate stability were established and maintained in archaic and classical Greece. In this context, different perspectives and approaches, ranging from pragmatic political goals and the definition and interpretation of key terms such as eirene to the underlying norms and their relevance for the realpolitik, were discussed. The articles in this volume shed new light on the various political instruments that the Greeks developed and employed to avoid war and to keep and organize peace. They focus on the analysis of commonly accepted terms that provided the basis for a settlement between conflicting parties and the analysis of various political strategies, including one-time arrangements to limit military conflicts, diplomatic efforts, legally binding agreements and more comprehensive concepts of interstate stability.

Table of Contents

Introduction / Julia Wilker -- Building community across the battle-lines. The truce in Iliad 3 and 4 / David F. Elmer -- The border of war and peace. Myth and ritual in Argive-Spartan dispute over Thyreatis / Natasha Bershadsky -- Thucydides' theory of negotiation / Sarah Bolmarcich -- War and peace at the beginning of the fourth century. The emergence of the Koine Eirene / Julia Wilker -- Peace, common peace, and war in mid-fourth-century Greece / Polly Low -- Legalism and peace in classical Greece / Peter Hunt -- Persian diplomacy between "Pax Persica" and "zero-tolerance" / Maria Brosius.