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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:

[77] Diodorus, XVIII, 4.

[78] Omitting the shadowy Eupator, Philopator Neos, and Alexander II.

[79] Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire des Lagides, II, p. 278; Plut., Antony, 54; Dio Cassius, XLIX, 41.

[80] Pensées, VI, 43 bis. Ed. Havet; cf. Bouché-Leclercq, Hist. des Lagides, II, p. 180, n. 1.

[81] Gesammelte Schriften, IV, p. 256.

[82] Idyll, XVII. (Translation of Calverley.)

[83] See Droysen, Geschichte des Hellenismus,2 III, pp. 262 ff.

[84] Plut., Aratus, XV.

[85] Idyll, XVII, 110 f.

[86] Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Sitzb. d. Berl. Akad. XXIX (1912), pp. 524 ff.

[87] V, 34, 6-8.

[88] Bouché-Leclercq, Histoire des Lagides, III, pp. 1 ff.

[89] Breasted, J.H., Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (1912).

[90] Prooem. 10. Tarn, Antigonus Gonatas, pp. 454 ff.

[91] Athenæus, V, 202 f.; Polybius, V, 65.

[92] Wilcken, Grundzüge, 13, 17, 47.

[93] Glotz, Journal des Savants (1913), pp. 16 ff.

[94] Wilcken, Grundzüge, 22.

[95] Idyll, 14, 58 ff. (Translated by Calverley.)

[96] For the following section the works of Rostowzew, Bouché-Leclercq (vol. IV), Wilcken, and Lesquier cited in the Select Bibliography at the end of this chapter are fundamental.

[97] Idyll, XVII, 111.

[98] Wilcken, Chrestomathie, 449.

[99] See for this section Lesquier, op. cit., pp. 142 ff.; Mitteis, Grundzüge Einl. XII; Schubart, W., Spuren politischen Autonomie in Ægypten unter den Ptolemäern, Klio, X (1910), pp. 41 ff.; cf. Id. Archiv für Papyrusforschung, V, pp. 81 ff.; Jouguet, P., La vie municipale dans l'Égypte Romaine (1911); Plaumann, G., Ptolemais in Oberægypten (1910).

[100] XXXIV, 14 (Translated by Mahaffy, The Ptolemaic Dynasty, p. 191.)