John D Grainger

Great Power Diplomacy in the Hellenistic World

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Produktbeschreibung

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

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 386g
• ISBN-13: 9780367881900
• ISBN-10: 036788190X
• Artikelnr.: 58440974

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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