Great Power Diplomacy in the Hellenistic World

ISBN-13: 9780367881900 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str.

John D. Grainger

Opis

This study of diplomacy in the Hellenistic period, a subject long neglected, describes the major institutions, particularly in the practices of concluding peace at the end of the many wars of that time. These practices are traced to their origin among the personal relationships between the warriors who succeeded Alexander the Great and who carve

Spis treści

Abbreviations

Introduction: Aims and Plans

Part I: Techniques and Practices

1. The Origins of Hellenistic Diplomacy

2. Royal Marriages

3. Cities, Summits, States, Envoys

Part II: Diplomacy in Action - The East

4. The Diplomacy of the First Syrian Wars (272 – 241)

5. Aegean Diplomacy: Ptolemy I to Aratos of Sikyon

6. The Diplomacy of Antiochos III – I: The Greek World

Part III: Diplomacy in the West

7. Ionian Sea Diplomacy

8. The Diplomacy of Rome and Carthage - I

9. The Diplomacy of Rome and Carthage - II

Part IV: The Collision of East and West

10. The Diplomacy of Antiochos III – II: The Roman Crisis

11. The Diplomacy of Peacemaking, 222 – 188

12. Rome and Greece 188 – c.120

13. The Later Syrian Wars (195 – c.140)

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

O autorze

John D. Grainger was a teacher for a quarter of a century and gained his PhD from Birmingham University in 1990. He then turned to writing full-time and has published over 30 books, mainly on Hellenistic history and on modern military history.