Paul A Rahe

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ID1104396
NAMEPaul A Rahe
GIVEN NAMESPaul A
FAMILY NAMERahe
SIGNATURERAHE P A
AFFILIATIONSHillsdale College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS37
TOTAL CITATIONS49
AUTHOR COUNT37
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX5

  • An Uneasy Truce

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's Second Attic War2020

    This chapter focuses on the Athenians, who were “broken in spirit” in the years after their humiliation at the hands of the Spartans and their allies. It describes how Athens' expanded its influence and domain when opportunity outside the Peloponnesus presented itself. It also discusses how Athenians established independent colonies, cleruchies, and agricultural outposts as soon as they had achieved victory at Cypriot Salamis. The chapter recount…

  • Prologue

    Paul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's Second Attic War2020

    This chapter analyzes the character of the Spartan polity, traces its origins, and describes the grand strategy that the Lacedaemonians first articulated in the mid-sixth century. It discusses the defense of the Spartan polity and the way of life associated with it before Persians burst on the scene. It also investigates how Spartans gradually adjusted their strategy to fit the new and unexpected challenge that suddenly loomed on the horizon when…

  • Pericles’ Calculated Risk

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's Second Attic War2020

    This chapter talks about Thucydides, son of Olorus, who provided the narrative of the great war between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians. It discusses the civil strife that had erupted at Epidamnus in 436 or early 435, in which the Corinthians found themselves confronted with a fateful opportunity. It also describes pólis as a populous settlement of ample wealth and considerable strategic importance that was situated on an easily defended nam…

  • Lacedaemon at Bay

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's Second Attic War2020

    This chapter talks about the Lacedaemonian and allied Peloponnesian's defeat in Navarino Bay. It investigates the Spartans' local truce with the Athenian generals and negotiations for a peace agreement in order to recover their infantry men and safeguard the men trapped on Sphacteria. The chapter also mentions how Spartans suffered additional and catastrophic losses at the time of the plague. It points out how the Spartans negotiated a peace agre…

  • Mutual Exhaustion

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's Second Attic War2020

    This chapter recounts the expedition conducted by Brasidas, son of Tellis, who made good with his promise of the Lacedaemonians' slogan “the freedom of the Greeks.” It talks about how the majority of the Lacedaemonians were weary of war, fearful of a helot revolt, eager to recover the men captured on Sphacteria, and ready to forge a peace. It also reviews how the Spartans' thirty years of peace with Argos came to an end within two years. The chap…

  • Epilogue

    Paul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's Second Attic War2020

    This chapter analyzes the contest at Mantineia, which was considered “the greatest battle” to have taken place in the Hellenic world. It recounts how the Spartans acquitted themselves of both the charge of malakía, lodged against them by the Hellenes as a consequence of the disaster on Mantineia, as well as the charge of aboulia and bradutēs. It also looks into the intent of Laconizers to overthrow the Argive democracy and persuade their compatri…

  • The Peloponnesus in Flux

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's Second Attic War2020

    This chapter analyzes the promulgation of the Peace of Nicias and the institution of a bilateral defensive alliance between Sparta and Athens, which failed to put an end to their rivalry. It explains the re-emergence of anarchy in the Hellenic world in Peloponnesus, where Lacedaemon had for generations reigned supreme and directed affairs. The chapter traces in detail the breakdown of the inherited intercommunal order within the Peloponnesus. It …

  • A Loss of Strategic Focus

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's Second Attic War2020

    This chapter begins with Pericles' death in the autumn of 429, which may have been caused by an unexpected plague. It describes Pericles' stature, intelligence, and justified reputation for incorruptibility that enabled him to hold the people in check without flattering them or depriving them of their liberty. The chapter looks at how Pericles had urged his compatriots to embrace a policy of hēsuchía, which was utterly foreign to their temperamen…

  • Shifting Sands

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's First Attic War2019

    This chapter discusses the turning point in Athenian–Spartan cooperation. During the early 460s, one dramatic development followed another. First, probably in 469, came Athens' stunning victory at Eurymedon and the news that she was in the process of negotiating an accord with the Persians. At about the same time, there came a grave crisis within the Spartan alliance, followed by a series of unsettling revelations made in quick succession which b…

  • A Fragile Truce

    Paul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's First Attic War2019

    This concluding chapter discusses the agreement conducted between the Athenian diplomat Callias and the Spartans during the 440s. The resulting arrangement reflected an enduring balance of power. It acknowledged the facts and left the Spartans and their allies supreme on land and the Athenians supreme at sea. In the aftermath, neither was in a position to strike terror into the other. The Peloponnesus was once again a bastion of defense for Laced…

  • The Postwar Settlement

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's First Attic War2019

    This chapter examines the Athenians' actions in the aftermath of the war. The city of Athens had been left in shambles after the war. The walls had for the most part been torn down and the temples leveled. Many of the houses had been destroyed. Once the Athenians had retrieved their families, there was much for them to do. The Persians were gone, and they were not apt to return any time soon. The Hellenes' control of the sea precluded that. One m…

  • War in Two Theaters

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's First Attic War2019

    This chapter discusses the outbreak of hostilities between Athens and Sparta. By this time, the Athenians knew that the helot rebellion would someday come to an end, that the Spartans would then find an occasion in which to march into Attica with their allies, and that they could neither defeat the Peloponnesians in the field nor withstand a lengthy siege. With this prospect in mind, they garrisoned Megara and Pegae and set about building walls o…

  • A Parting of the Ways

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERSparta's First Attic War2019

    This chapter recalls the series of events which led to the breakup of the Athenian–Spartan alliance. It begins with an earthquake and the rebellion of Sparta's helots (slaves), for which the Spartans had appealed to their allies—among them the Athenians—for help. After all, the friendship between the two powers had made possible the Hellenic victory in the Persian Wars and opened the way for the emergence of Athens' maritime hegemony in the after…

  • Persian Interventions

    Paul A RaheARTICLEHistory Reviews of New Books2018

    "Persian Interventions: The Achaemenid Empire, Athens & Sparta, 450–386 BCE." History: Reviews of New Books, 46(6), pp. 163–164

  • Amending the First Amendment

    Open AccessPaul A RaheARTICLEAcademic Questions2017

  • Liberty and Property in Classical Antiquity

    Open AccessPaul A RaheARTICLEJournal of Policy History2017References: 4

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  • Montesquieu's anti-Machiavellian Machiavellianism

    Paul A RaheARTICLEHistory of European Ideas2011Cited by: 2

    Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, mentions Niccolò Machiavelli by name in his extant works just a handful of times. That, however, he read him carefully and thoroughly time and again there can be no doubt, and it is also clear that he couches his argument both in his Considerations on the Causes of the Greatness of the Romans and their Decline and in his Spirit of Laws as an appropriation and critique of the work of …

  • Montesquieu e la virtu

    Paul A RaheARTICLEThe English Historical Review2011

    Journal Article Montesquieu e la virtù: Rappresentazioni della Francia di 'Ancien Régime' e dei governi repubblicani, by Marco Platania Get access Montesquieu e la virtù: Rappresentazioni della Francia di 'Ancien Régime' e dei governi repubblicani, by Marco Platania (Milan: UTET Libreria, 2007; pp. xxi + 265. Eur 18). Paul A. Rahe Paul A. Rahe Hillsdale College, MI Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Engli…

  • The Peace of Nicias

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERMaking of Peace2008

    It is much easier to start a war than to end one. The former, a single, willful party can ordinarily accomplish with ease; to achieve the latter, it usually takes two. Often, it takes more parties than that. Such was the experience of those who found themselves engaged in what is conventionally called the Archidamian War – the first stage in what Thucydides termed “the great war” that took place “between the Athenians and the Peloponnesians” (Thu…

  • Thucydides as educator

    Open AccessPaul A RaheCHAPTERPast As Prologue2006

    Exiled Thucydides knew All that a speech can say About Democracy And what dictators do, The elderly rubbish they talk To an apathetic grave; Analysed all in his book, The enlightenment driven away, The habit-forming pain, Mismanagement and grief. We must suffer them all again. – W. H. Auden, “September 1, 1939” Toward the end of the introductory section of his epic history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides advances a claim on that work's behal…

  • Thomas Jefferson's Machiavellian Political Science

    Open AccessPaul A RaheARTICLEThe Review of Politics1995Cited by: 9References: 11

    On the face of it, there would seem to be little evidence suggesting that the political science of Thomas Jefferson owed much, if anything, to the speculation of Niccolò Machiavelli. The Virginian appears to have mentioned the Florentine by name but once, and he did so in a manner conveying his disdain for the author of The Prince. And yet, as I try to show in this article, Jefferson's commitment to limited government, his advocacy of a politics …

  • Thucydides’ critique of realpolitik

    Paul A RaheARTICLESecurity Studies1995Cited by: 8References: 64

    (1995). Thucydides’ critique of realpolitik. Security Studies: Vol. 5, Roots of Realism, pp. 105-141

  • Republics Ancient and Modern

    Meyer Reinhold, Paul A RaheARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…1995

  • Republics Ancient and Modern

    James R Stoner, Paul A RaheARTICLEJournal of the Early Republic1994Cited by: 1

  • Wisdom and Politics in Commercial Societies

    Laurence Dickey, Paul A RaheARTICLEReviews in American History1994