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그리크 제국.The Book, Greek Imperialism, by William Scott Ferguson
미국의 하버드 대학교 교수가 쓴책. 내용은 아테네의 도시국가가 민주주의를 시행하였으며 나아가서 그리크제국주의를 형성하는 과정과, 그리고 스파르타에서 아리스톨로 그리고 알렉산더대왕으로 나아가서 제국을 형성해서 세계로 확대해가는 것에 대해서 씀. 그리크 제국의 그리크어는 ,후에 로마제국의 라틴어로 즉 팍스로마나, 나아가서 1600년대부터 1800년대로 대영제국의 영어로 즉 팍스 브리테니카, 그리고 지금의 미국의 영어로 이어져서 즉 팍스 아메리카나 , 지금은 잉극리쉬 랭귀지 엠파이어를 형성하여 이어짐.
WILLIAM SCOTT FERGUSON
PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY WILLIAM SCOTT FERGUSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published September 1913

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그리크 제국.The Book, Greek Imperialism, by William Scott Ferguson
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contents
I IMPERIALISM AND THE CITY- STATE
II ATHENS: AN IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY
III FROM SPARTA TO ARISTOTLE
IV ALEXANDER THE GREAT AND WORLD MONARCHY
V THE EMPIRE OF THE PTOLEMIES
VI THE SELEUCID EMPIRE
VII THE EMPIRE OF THE ANTIGONIDS
INDEX

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PREFACE
THIS book contains seven lectures, six of which were delivered at the Lowell
Institute in Boston during February, 1913. In the first of them the main lines of
imperial development in Greece are sketched. In the others I have tried to
characterize, having regard rather to clearness than to novelty or completeness,
the chief imperial growths which arose in Greece during the transformance of
city- states from ultimate to constituent political units. I hope that these
discussions of the theory and practice of government in the empires of Athens,
Sparta, Alexander, the Ptolemies, Seleucids, and Antigonids will be found useful
by the general reader, and especially by the student of politics and history. The
idea I wish particularly to convey, however, is that there was continuity of
constitutional development within the whole period. The city- state, indeed,
reached its greatest efficiency in the time of Pericles, but the federation of city？states was being still perfected two hundred years afterwards. In government, as
in science, the classic period was but the youthful bloom of Greece, whereas its
vigorous maturity―in which it was cut down by Rome―came in the Macedonian
time.
Briefly stated, my thesis is this: The city- states of Greece were unicellular
organisms with remarkable insides, and they were incapable of growth except by
subdivision. They might reproduce their kind indefinitely, but the cells, new and
old, could not combine to form a strong nation. Thus it happened that after
Athens and Sparta had tried in vain to convert their hegemonies over Greece into
empires, a cancerous condition arose in Hellas, for which the proper remedy was
not to change the internal constitutions of city- states, as Plato and Aristotle
taught, but to change the texture of their cell walls so as to enable them to adhere
firmly to one another. With a conservatism thoroughly in harmony with the later
character of the Greek people, the Greeks struggled against this inevitable and
salutary change. But in the end they had to yield, saving, however, what they
could of their urban separateness, while creating quasi- territorial states, by the
use of the federal system and deification of rulers. These two contrivances were,
accordingly, rival solutions of the same great political problem. Nothing reveals
more clearly the limitations of Greek political theory than that it takes no account
either of them or of their antecedents.
CAMBRIDGE, MASS., June, 1913.

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WILLIAM SCOTT FERGUSON
PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY
HARVARD UNIVERSITY
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY WILLIAM SCOTT FERGUSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published September 1913