Maintaining peace and interstate stability in archaic and classical Greece
By: edited by Julia Wilker
Contributors: Wilker, Julia, editor
Series: Studien zur alten Geschichte -- Band 16; Studien zur alten Geschichte -- Bd. 16.
Publisher: Verlag-Antike
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Mainz
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9783938032510
Subjects: Politics and government; Peace-building; Peace; Congresses; History
Notes: "The papers presented in this volume originate from a symposium on Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in the Greek World, held at the Humanities Center at Harvard on May 9th 2009"--Acknowledgments.

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