ABSTRACT
In the new code of warfare Plato proposed, all wars between Greek cities would be regarded as civil wars, and no defeated Greek city would ever be occupied, enslaved, or dishonored. To suggest that predation is in the course of nature is of course to suggest amoral realism in politics and the rejection of the traditional Greek ethic of warfare. Greeks thought hegemony a noble goal and assumed that any city that was able to would aim for it. No contradiction was felt between the hunger for freedom and the desire for hegemony. "Panhellenism" is a modern coinage describing the spirit of cultural and national unity that arose among the Greeks during the Persian Wars. Herodotus presents us with a cast of about one thousand characters, gathered from the Greek collective memory that stretched back one hundred years, all of which information was stored and organized in his own astonishing memory.
