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< nd Demetrius not really kings of Macedon, 220.
I. IMPERIALISM AND THE CITY-STATE
I. DEFINITIONS 1-5
1. Of empire, 1.
2. Of emperor, 3.
3. Of imperialism, 4.
II. THE CITY-STATE 6-19
1. Its origin, 6.
2. Its characteristics, 9.
a. Fusion of agricultural, trading, industrial, and commercial classes, 9.
b. Theory of common descent of citizens, 13.
c. So-called worship of the dead, 14.
d. Educative power of the laws, 16.
e. Municipality and nation in one, 17.
III. MEANS OF OBSCURING IMPERIALISM 19-25
1. Symmachia the basis of the Peloponnesian league, 20.
a. Support of oligarchies, 21.
2. Stasis, or civil war, 22.
3. Symmachia the basis of the Athenian empire, 23.
a. Support of democracies, 23.
b. Maintenance of the union, 24.
IV. FAILURE OF HEGEMONIES 25-30
1. The idea of proportionate representation, 27.
V. MEANS OF EVADING IMPERIALISM 30-34
1. Grant of Polity, or citizenship, 30.
2. Grant of Isopolity, or reciprocity of citizenship, 31.
3. Grant of Sympolity, or joint citizenship, 32.
VI. MEANS OF JUSTIFYING IMPERIALISM 34-37
1. Deification of kings, 35.
II. ATHENS: AN IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY
I. ORIGIN OF THE IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY 38-41
1. Themistocles, 39.
2. Pericles, 41.
II. SIZE AND POPULATION OF ATHENS AND ITS EMPIRE 42-43
III. THE FUNERAL ORATION: THE IDEALS OF PERICLEAN DEMOCRACY 43-48
IV. THE INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRACY 49-65
1. Ecclesia and heliÆa; their conjoined activity, 49.
2. The council of the 500 and the committees of magistrates, 51.
a. The ten prytanies, 52.
b. Election by lot; annual tenure of office; rotation, 52, 53, 55.
3. The ecclesia an assembly of high-class amateurs, 57.
a. Its use of experts, 58.
b. Its choice of a leader: ostracism, 60.
4. The economic basis of democracy, 61.
a. The place of slavery: simply a form of capital, 61.
b. The object of indemnities: political equality, 64.
V. THE EMPIRE
V. ANTIGONUS GONATAS 222-234
1. Training got in Greece and Macedon, 222.
2. Peace with Asia and Egypt, 223.
3. Protected Greece from northern barbarians, 224.
a. Inroad of Pyrrhus, 223.
4. Governs Greece by "tyrannies," 224.
5. Stoic justification of "tyranny," 225.
6. Ptolemy Philadelphus opposes Antigonus in Greece, 226.
7. Rise of the ethne, 228.
8. Struggle with Egypt for sea power, 229.
a. Aratus seizes Sicyon: Alexander rebels, 230.
b. The Laodicean War saves Antigonus, 231.
c. Possessions of Antigonus at end of struggle, 233.
VI. POSITION OF ACHÆA, ÆTOLIA, AND EGYPT AT THE END OF STRUGGLE 234
VII. THE FEDERAL MOVEMENT 235-240
1. Ethne become leagues, 236.
2. The city-state the federal unit, 237.
3. The league lacks an hegemon, 238.
4. Monarchical traits, 239.
5. Relation of federal to local authorities, 239.
VIII. DEMETRIUS II 240-241
1. War with AchÆans and Ætolians, 241.
IX. FALL OF THE ACHÆAN LEAGUE 241-242
1. Treachery of the Ætolians, 241.
2. Desertion of Egypt, 242.
3. Policy of Antigonus Doson, 242.
4. Cleomenes of Sparta, 242.
X. THE HELLENIC LEAGUE OF ANTIGONUS DOSON 242-245
1. Leagues, not cities, the units, 243.
2. Macedon a unit, 243.
3. League assemblies recognized as sovereign authorities, 244.
4. Military weakness, 244.
XI. PHILIP IV AND THE LEAGUE 245-248
1. The Social War, 246.
2. The Roman peril: speech of Agelaus of Naupactus, 246.
3. End of Hellenic independence, 248.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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