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The acquisition of basic skills in dealing with ancient sources.

The history of the Greek world in the Classical and Hellenistic periods is marked by a long series of wars, starting with the Persian Wars and ending with the battles fought in the east during the Roman civil wars. However, the cities suffered not only from such large-scale conflicts, but also from countless regional small-scale wars that ignited for example over border disputes. Especially during the era from Alexander the Great to the beginning of the Augustan Principate wars are considered an endemic problem of the Greek poleis. At the same time, we observe an increasing frequency and differentiation of instruments for peaceful conflict resolution and long-term peacekeeping. By reading relevant treaties that have survived in historiography or in the form of inscriptions, the exercise will trace this development and pursue the question, what contribution diplomacy and "international" law made to stabilize the Greek polis world.

Combination of lecture, reading tasks, exercises and a final essay.

Participation, presentation and final essay

Adcock, F./Mosley, D.J. (1975): Diplomacy in Ancient Greece, London.

Ager, S. (1996): Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, 337-90 B.C., Berkeley.

Baltrusch, E. (1994): Symmachie und Spondai. Untersuchungen zum griechischen Völkerrecht der archaischen und klassichen Zeit (8.-5. Jahrhundert v. Chr.). Berlin.

– (2008): Außenpolitik, Bünde und Reichsbildung in der Antike, München.

Bederman, D. (2001): International Law in Antiquity, Cambridge.

Bengtson, H. (1962): Die Staatsverträge des Altertums II. Die Verträge der griechisch-römischen Welt von 700–338 v. Chr, München.

Buis, E.J. (2018): Taming Ares. War, Interstate Law, and Humanitarian Discourse in Classical Greece, Leiden.

Chaniotis, A. (1996): Die Verträge zwischen kretischen Poleis in der hellenistischen Zeit, Stuttgart.

– (2005): War in the Hellenistic World. A social and cultural history, Malden.

Eckstein, A. (2006): Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome, Berkeley.

Errington, R.M. (2020): Staatsverträge des Altertums IV. Die Verträge der griechisch-römischen Welt von ca. 200 v.Chr. bis zum Beginn der Kaiserzeit, München 2020.

Schmitt, H.H. (1969): Die Staatsverträge des Altertums III. Die Verträge der griechisch-römischen Welt von 338 bis 200 v. Chr., München.

Klose, P. (1972): Die völkerrechtliche Ordnung der hellenistischen Staatenwelt in der Zeit von 280–168 v. Chr., München.

Low, P (2007): Interstate Relations in Classical Greece. Morality and Power, Cambridge.

Limited number of participants (max. 20)!