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Hellenistic Ethical Lexicon

Three Hundred and Seven Rules of Conduct of Expanding Empires

Av Doron Mendels, James H. Charlesworth

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Building on his previous work on Hellenistic Interstate Political Ethics (T&T Clark, 2022) leading historian Doron Mendels presents three hundred interstate ethical rules of conduct which he has discovered within three reconstructed Hellenistic codes. These codes appear in the work of three major Hellenistic historical writers, with Mendels also adding remarks that appear in The Letter of Aristeas.Mendels has formulated these – probably originally oral – rules embedded within the historical narratives using a mixture of statements by rulers and other actors concerning interstate relationships, historical events which point to ethical behaviour of states and/or their breach, as well as related thoughts of the historians themselves regarding interstate encounters. The result is a comprehensive catalogue of ethical rules referring to behaviour on the international scene, which include not only rules but also a lexicon of moral terms borrowed from the individual ethical scenarios. The volume constitutes a significant addition to knowledge of the Hellenistic era in the 3rd-1st centuries BC, the universe against which Judaism and early Christianity operated.
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Doron Mendels is Max and Sophie Mydans Professor in the Humanities at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

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How might it be possible to frame rules of conduct in an international context that lacks a system of law capable of obliging states to fulfill their obligations and keep their promises? The ancient Hellenistic world, as Professor Doron Mendels masterfully illustrates in this original book, provides important elements for a response to this question. Drawing on three ancient historians and an ancient political thinker, the author retrieves the core doctrines of an ethical code elaborated over the course of a long historical period. This code, as he illustrates, prescribes rules of ethical conduct for political leaders necessary to insure the stability of states through the maintenance of orderly interstate relations. Far from abstract theoretical formulations, Professor Mendels convincingly demonstrates that the different precepts of this code were actively engaged in the political life of the Hellenistic period. Professor Mendels' analyses in this book vibrantly illustrate ways in which ancient political attitudes and concepts retain a vital importance for contemporary understanding in the fields of history and of political thought.

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