Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece

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 a...

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Main Author: Wilker, Julia
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: 2012
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