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Greek Imperialism

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By William Scott Ferguson
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A series of lectures traces how Greek city-states, with their strong municipal identities and limited capacity for territorial growth, confronted and gradually transformed into wider political structures; it explains the origins and characteristics of the polis, how hegemonies like Athens and Sparta attempted and failed to convert alliances into lasting empires, and how later solutions—federal systems and the deification or dynastic rule of leaders—produced quasi-territorial Hellenistic states under Macedonian dominance. The work analyzes institutions, naval power, and constitutional continuity across the classical to Hellenistic transition, arguing that Greek political evolution favored cohesion without erasing civic particularism.

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FOOTNOTES:

[58] Arrian, Anabasis, VII, 9, 2 ff.

[59] De Cor. 67.

[60] Müller, F.H.G., I, Frg. 27.

[61] Politics, III, 11 (17), 12, p. 1288 a.

[62] Politics, III, 8 (13), 1, p. 1284 a.

[63] Politics, I, 1 (2), 9, p. 1253 a.

[64] Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticæ, IX.

[65] Johnston, R.M., The Corsican, p. 498.

[66] See above, page 28, and below, page 243.

[67] Plut., Alex. 54.

[68] Kleine Schriften, pp. 314 ff.

[69] VII, 4, 4 ff.

[70] Athenaeus, XII, pp. 538 ff. (Translated by Wheeler in his Alexander the Great, pp. 477 f.)

[71] VII, 4, 7 f.

[72] In Macedon, by the regent Ἁντἱπατρος ἁσεβἑς τοὑτο κρἱναξ (Suidas).

[73] Pauly-Wissowa, Real-encyclopädie, VI, 1, pp. 952 ff.; Wendland, Die Hellenistisch-römische Kultur (1907), pp. 67 ff.

[74] Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans (1912), p. 55.

[75] Ferguson, Hellenistic Athens, p. 143.

[76] Meyer, Ed., Kleine Schriften, p. 330, n. 2.