Conceptualizing and Theorizing Peace in Ancient Greece

• Published in: Transactions of the American Philological Association (1974) Vol. 139; no. 2; pp. 225 - 250
• Main Author: RAAFLAUB, KURT A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore The Johns Hopkins University Press 01.10.2009; Johns Hopkins University Press
• Subjects: Ancient Greece; City states; Classical literature; Communities; Democracy; Greek civilization; Greek literature; Herodotus (c. 484 – 425/413 BCE); Occupations; Peace; Peace treaties; Peacefulness; Peacetime; PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS 2009, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Sophistry; Speeches; Thucydides (471-400 BC); War
• ISSN: 0360-5949; 1533-0699; 2575-7180; 1533-0699; 2575-7199
• DOI: 10.1353/apa.0.0034

[...] if we make peace and present ourselves as our common covenants command us to do, then we shall dwell in our city in great security, delivered from wars and perils and the turmoil in which we are now involved amongst ourselves, and we shall advance day by day in prosperity, relieved of paying war-taxes, of fitting out triremes, and of discharging the other burdens which are imposed by war, without fear cultivating our lands and sailing the seas and engaging in those other occupations which now, because of the war, have entirely come to an end Or. 8, On the Peace 19-20. [...] only the voluntary abolition of imperialism and the return to earlier policies of generosity towards others could secure for the Athenians lasting peace, happiness, and the general admiration of all other Greeks.