Peace and reconciliation in the classical world / edited by E.P. Moloney and Michael Stuart Williams.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-332) and index.

Introduction: Imagining, Establishing, and Instituting Peace / E.P. Moloney and Michael Stuart Williams -- PART I. IMAGINING PEACE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Solon the Peacemaker / William Allan -- Aristotle on Peace : Biological, Political, Ethical, and Metaphysical Dimensions / William Desmond -- (What's so Funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding? : Imagining Peace in Greek Comedy / Ian Ruffell -- Reconciliation in Later Classical and Post-Classical Greek Cities : a Question of Peace and Peacefulness? / Benjamin Gray -- Negotiating Ideas of Peace in the Civic Conflicts of the late Republic / Hannah Cornwell -- Peace and Empire : Pacare, Pacatus and the Language of Roman Imperialism / Myles Lavan -- Blessed are the Peacemakers : Visions of Christian Peace from Christ to Constantine / David M. Gwynn -- PART II. ESTABLISHING PEACE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Cyrus the Great : an Unconventional Peacemaker / Selga Medenieks -- International Arbitration in Archaic Greece / Aideen Carty -- Once an Ally, Always an Ally : Sparta's Approach to Policing the Oaths of her Allies in the late-Fifth and early-Fourth Centuries / Andrew Bayliss -- The Compromise of Kings : Philip II and Macedonian Peace / E.P. Moloney -- Deditio in the Second Century BC : Subjugation and Reconciliation / John Richardson -- How Wars End : Three Thoughts on the Fall of Jerusalem / John Curran -- PART III. INSTITUTING PEACE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Identity Building as a Means of Conflict Resolution, or, Thucydides' Struggle with Hellenic Discourses / Christoph Ulf -- Monuments to Victory and Symbols of Peace and Reconciliation? : Re-viewing Post-War Building in Classical Athens and Achaemenid Persia / Janett Morgan -- Peace and Reconciliation, Athenian-Style / M.J. Edwards -- Beyond War, Imperialism, and Panhellenism : Xenophon's Eirenic Thought / Joseph Jansen -- Punishment and Reconciliation : Augustine / P.I. Kaufman -- Reading Reconciliation in Late Antique Altercationes / Michael Stuart Williams.

"Warfare has long been recognised as central to a proper understanding of the classical world, where, as the philosopher Heraclitus observed, war was 'both king and father of all.' More recently, however, an approach to the ancient world solely in such terms has been challenged. War was indeed pervasive, and was a prominent theme among poets and historians; but there was also a distinct value placed on peace, which might be understood not only as the absence of war but as an ideal to be imagined, instituted, and even imposed. This volume places peace at the centre of its concerns and explores classical ideas of peace as both an abstract concept the practical methods of conflict resolution"--Provided by publisher.