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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:

[18] Pages 27 ff.

[19] Delbrück, Die Perserkriege und die Burgunderkriege, pp. 137 ff.; Beloch, Griechische Geschichte, I (1893), p. 368, n. 3.

[20] Thucy., II, 36, 2.

[21] Thucy., II, 37 ff.

[22] For the following sections see especially Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians.

[23] Seven cents, equal in purchasing power to thirty-five cents perhaps.

[24] Greenidge, Greek Constitutional History (1896), pp. 170 ff.

[25] See particularly Ed. Meyer, Die Sklaverei im Altertum (Kleine Schriften, pp. 169 ff.).

[26] Pseudo-Xenophon, State of the Athenians, II, 10. (The translation used here and elsewhere, with a few modifications, is that of Dakyns.)

[27] Pseudo-Xenophon, State of the Athenians, II, 2 ff.

[28] Pseudo-Xenophon, State of the Athenians, I, 2.

[29] Plut., Pericles, XI, 4.

[30] Const. of the Athenians, 24, 3.

[31] Bury, J.B., A History of Greece (1900), p. 355.

[32] Plut., Pericles, 12. (Translated by Perrin.)

[33] Thucy., II, 65, 5 ff.