Peace, war and conflict in the ancient world

The workshop plans to examine the following questions:

• What theories of the origin of conflict, or suggestions for conflict-avoidance, do we find in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds?
• What was the relation in ancient thought between war and other fields of activity? Was war useful for the ancients to think with for other practical and evaluative questions?
• Do we find concepts and considerations from other fields deployed in reasoning about war?
• Do we find attempts to de-centralise war in ancient literature, historiography, philosophy, or all three?

Speakers will be drawn from a range of disciplines, including Greek philosophy, literature, the history of democracy and historiography.

Please email enquiries to Professor Alex Long at [email protected].