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War, peace, and alliance in Demosthenes' Athens /
"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 o...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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"--Provided by publisher |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 317 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-308) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1107209714 9781107209718 0511739737 9780511739736 1282536419 9781282536418 9786612536410 6612536411 0511679084 9780511679087 0511680333 9780511680335 0511677839 9780511677830 0511676603 9780511676604 0511684290 9780511684296 0521835518 9780521835510 |