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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:

[1] A History of the Eastern Roman Empire, pp. 319 f.

[2] Atlantic Monthly, Oct., 1912, vol. cx, pp. 517 ff.

[3] Plutarch, Ti. Gracch. 9; cf. Greenidge, A History of Rome, p. 111.

[4] Ηρὡδου Περι Πολιτεἱας, 30 (Ed. Drerup). With characteristic conservatism the English scholars, Adcock and Knox (Klio, 1913, pp. 249 ff.), uphold the attribution of this pamphlet to Herodes Atticus.

[5] Thucy., III, 82, 8. (The translation used here and elsewhere in the book is that of Jowett.)

[6] Thucy., III, 37, 2.

[7] The same is true of the second Athenian empire. The confederation from which it grew had no reason to outlast the occasion which had called t into existence—the "tyranny" of Sparta. It was, therefore, by design at least, a temporary, and not a permanent, union.

[8] Hellenica Oxyrhyn., II, 2-4.

[9] Attische Urkunden, I Teil. (Sitzb. d. Akad. in Wien. Phil.-hist. Klasse. 165, 6, 1911).

[10] It was revived on much less objectionable terms by Antigonus Doson. See below, page 34 and chapter VII.

[11] Lysistrata, 579 ff.

[12] See below, chapter VII.

[13] See below, chapter VII.

[14] See above, page 30.

[15] See below, chapter VII.

[16] See especially Ed. Meyer, Kleine Schriften, 283 ff., and below, chapter IV.

[17] Bury, J.B., The Constitution of the Later Roman Empire (1910), pp. 10 ff., 36.