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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.

1. Schömann-Lipsius. Griechische Altertümer,^4 I (1892), pp. 197 ff.

2. Bury, J.B. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great (1900).

3. Meyer, Eduard. Geschichte des Altertums, V (1902).

4. Niese, B. Neue Beiträge zur Geschichte und Landeskunde Lakedämons: Die lakedämonischen Periöken. In Nachrichten der Gött. Gesell. d. Wissenschaften (1906), pp. 101 ff.

5. Arnim, Hans von. Die politischen Theorien des Altertums (1910).

6. Gomperz, Th. Greek Thinkers, III (1905), IV (1912).

FOOTNOTES:

[34] Schürer, Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes im Zeitalter Jesu Christi, I3 (1901), pp. 236 f. See notes.

[35] 1 Macc. XII, 11.

[36] Geschichte des Altertums, II1 (1893), pp. 562 f.

[37] Dickins, Journal of Hellenic Studies, XXXII (1912), p. 12.

[38] Schoemann-Lipsius, Griechische Alterthümer,4 1 (1897), pp. 261 ff.

[39] See particularly Niese, op. cit. in Select Bibliography at end of chapter.

[40] Beloch, Griechische Geschichte, I (1893), pp. 439 ff.

[41] III, 3, 4 ff.

[42] The successive tyrannies in Syracuse and the empires of Syracuse over the West Greeks have been omitted of necessity in this book. They have been examined with particular care by Freeman in his History of Sicily and with particular sympathy by Beloch in his Griechische Geschichte.

[43] Xenophon, Hellenica, IV, 2, 11 ff.

[44] Laws, v, p. 730. (The translation used here and elsewhere in the book is that of Jowett.)

[45] For what is here omitted see the excellent little book by von Arnim, Die politischen Theorien des Altertums.

[46] Laws, II, p. 664.

[47] Laws, II, p. 662.

[48] VII, p. 806.

[49] Laws, III, p. 700. The same initial cause of degeneracy is postulated in Plato's Republic, VIII, p. 546.

[50] Greek Literature (The Columbia University Press, 1912), p. 11.

[51] Laws, VIII, p. 831.

[52] Republic, II, p. 372 b.

[53] Politics, II, 3 (6), 3, p. 1265 a. (The translation used here and elsewhere in the book is that of Welldon: the text that of Immisch.)

[54] Bury, J.B., The Ancient Greek Historians, pp. 182 ff.

[55] Politics, II, 2 (5), 10, p. 1264 a.

[56] VII (IV), 6 (7), 1, p. 1327 b.

[57] Politics, IV (VI), 10 (12), 1, p. 1296 b.