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War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens Debate and the Process of Decision-Making

Explores the thinking and feelings, often surprisingly modern, that determined Athenian foreign policy decisions in the fourth century BC.

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  • "Explores the thinking and feelings, often surprisingly modern, that determined Athenian foreign policy decisions in the fourth century BC."@en
  • "Examines the oratorical appeals deployed in assembly speeches to understand the wide range of thinking and feeling that determined Athenian foreign policy decisions. The book draws on theories of militarism, international relations, games, gender, and metaphor to show how even seemingly irrational appeals made sense in their context."
  • "Explores the thinking and feelings, often surprisingly modern, that determined Athenian foreign policy decisions in the fourth century BC.--Résumé de l'éditeur."
  • ""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."
  • ""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."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Military history"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"

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  • "War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens Debate and the Process of Decision-Making"@en
  • "War, peace, and alliance in Demosthenes' Athens"@en
  • "War, peace, and alliance in Demosthenes' Athens"
  • "War, peace, and alliance in Demosthenes' Athens. Debate and the process of decision-making"@en
  • "War, peace, and alliance in demosthenes' Athens"
  • "War, peace and alliance in Demosthenes' Athens"

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