Panhellenism without Imperialism? Athens and the Greeks before and after Chaeronea

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Panhellenism without Imperialism? Athens and the Greeks before and after Chaeronea
Low, Polly

From the journal Historia Historia, Volume 67, December 2018, issue 4

Published by Franz Steiner Verlag

article, 11266 Words
Original language: English
Historia 2018, pp 454-471
https://doi.org/10.25162/historia-2018-0018

Abstract

This article explores the shifting definition(s) of Panhellenism in fourth century Athenian political discourse, and argues that the flexibility of the concept can help to explain how the Athenians are able to continue to utilise this idea in their political arguments, even in the rapidly changing interstate environment of the late Classical and early Hellenistic period. Close analysis of the deployment of Panhellenic arguments before and after Chaeronea, and in the final decade of the century, throws further light on the ways in which Athens’ use of this ideology both responds to and shapes their position in Greek interstate society.

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Polly Low

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