Every Athenian alliance, every declaration of war, and every peace
treaty was instituted by a decision of the assembly, where citizens
voted after listening to speeches that presented varied and often
opposing arguments about the best course of action. The fifteen
preserved assembly speeches of the mid-fourth century BC thus
provide an unparalleled body of evidence for the way that Athenians
thought and felt about interstate relations: to understand this
body of oratory is to understand how the Athenians of that period
made decisions about war and peace. This book provides a
comprehensive treatment of this subject. It deploys insights from a
range of fields, from anthropology to international relations
theory, in order not only to describe Athenian thinking, but also
to explain it. Athenian thinking turns out to have been complex,
sophisticated, and surprisingly familiar both in its virtues and
its flaws.
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