Taming Ares : War, Interstate Law, and Humanitarian Discourse in Classical Greece.

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Foreword (Lesaffer) -- ‎Preliminary Considerations -- ‎1. Editions of Reference Works -- ‎2. Translations -- ‎3. Transliterations -- ‎4. Chronological References -- ‎Acknowledgments -- ‎List of Figures and Maps -- ‎Figures -- ‎Maps -- ‎Introduction -- ‎1. Between Ares and Athena -- ‎2. Between Custom and Convenience: Rules and Pragmatics -- ‎3. Toward International Law in the Ancient World: Practices and Contexts -- ‎4. Inhumane Acts, Human Words: Analyzing the Restrictive Discourse of War -- ‎Part 1. The Concepts -- ‎Chapter 1. Normativity, Hegemony, and Democratic Performance: The Case of Classical Athens -- ‎1. International Normativity, Subordination, and Political Imposition in the Ancient World -- ‎2. Justice, Law, Laws, and Decrees: The Issue of Terminology -- ‎3. Nomothesia: The Act of Legislating -- ‎4. Dramatic Competitions and Athenian Festivals -- ‎5. Justice as Spectacle in Athens: Judicial praxis -- ‎6. The Assembly, the Theater, and the Courts: Performative Activities of Democracy -- ‎Summation: Democracy as Performative Ritual -- ‎Chapter 2. Greek poleis and International Subjectivity -- ‎1. Toward an Archaeology of the Subject: Did Fictional Entities Have a Legal Personality in the Greek World? -- ‎1.1. Subjects as an Object of Study: A Modern Concept -- ‎1.2. Groups and Associations in Athenian Law -- ‎1.3. The polis as State and Its Legal Representations -- ‎2. The Role of the polis in the Conclusion of Treaties during the Peloponnesian War -- ‎2.1. The Classical Greek Treaties -- ‎2.2. Three Examples as Case Studies -- ‎2.2.1. The Treaties of Athens with Rhegium and Leontinoi -- ‎2.2.2. The Quadripartite Treaty of Athens with Argos, Mantineia and Elis -- ‎2.2.3. The Treaties between Sparta and the Achaemenid Empire -- ‎Summation: International Subjectivity in Ruins -- ‎Part 2. The Rules.

‎Chapter 3. The Outbreak of War and Its Limits in Inter-polis Law -- ‎1. The Rhetoric of the Use of Armed Force in the Greek World -- ‎2. The Vocabulary of the Grounds: The Spoken and the Unspoken in Thucydides -- ‎3. Considerations on Guilt, Responsibility, Motivation and Encouragement: Helen's Case -- ‎4. Exoneration from Responsibility for the Attack: The Adversary's Fault -- ‎5. A 'Legal' Rhetoric of Self-Defense? -- ‎Summation: Restraining the Use of Armed Force -- ‎Chapter 4. The Conduct of War and Its Limits in Inter-polis Law -- ‎1. Greek Warfare between Military Necessity and Limitation -- ‎2. The Legal Matrix: The Foundations of "Common," "Universal," Inter-polis, and Panhellenic Law -- ‎3. Geneva in Greece: The nomos of the Greeks with Respect to the Protection of Victims and Practices in Wartime -- ‎3.1. Protecting Envoys -- ‎3.2. Protecting Civilians -- ‎3.3. Protecting Temples and Religious Facilities and Personnel -- ‎3.4. Protecting Captured Enemies -- ‎3.5. Protecting the Sick and Wounded Combatants and Dead Bodies -- ‎3.6. Protecting Suppliants, Refugees and Asylum-Seekers -- ‎4. The Hague in Greece: The nomos of the Greeks with Respect to the Restriction of Means and Methods of Warfare -- ‎5. Responding to Atrocity after the Conflict: Prosecution of War Crimes? -- ‎Summation: Towards a Framework of Restraint -- ‎Conclusions: About Apples, Branches, and Humanitarian Strategies -- ‎Appendix A. Chart of Treaties Signed by Greek poleis during the Peloponnesian War (431-404) -- ‎Appendix B. Digital Images of Treaties and Decrees -- ‎Bibliography -- ‎1. Editions of Ancient Sources (Texts and Translations) -- ‎2. Critical Bibliography -- ‎3. Instrumenta studiorum -- ‎Index of Greek Terms -- ‎Index of Ancient Sources -- ‎Literary Texts -- ‎Inscriptions -- ‎Index of Subjects and Names.

In Taming Ares Emiliano J. Buis studies the narrative foundations of the (il)legality of warfare in the classical Greek world in order to demonstrate its contribution to a better historical understanding of the international legal rules applicable to the use of force and the conduct of hostilities.

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