Kings like Antigonos and Lysimachos were accustomed to winning land by the spear and granting out chunks of it as a personal favor; we can well ask whether a Hellenistic monarch would be sensitive to other approaches to the question of territory.
The line between arbitral and arbitrary is quite fuzzy. It was with the diminution of the royal presence in the early second century that there would have been an increase in regional interactions, and ultimately perhaps, regional solidarity. Samos then had to play catch-up. But a hundred years later, when Rhodes heard their case, the two states voluntarily and mutually agreed to consult with the island state. So long as the parents are around, the children will all appeal to this higher authority, and find little reason to create bridges between themselves.
If the parents are removed from the picture, and the children still have to share the house, there is a greater incentive for the siblings to establish peace, order, and justice among themselves and by themselves. Whether they choose fisticuffs or a more rational method of conflict resolution, they are still establishing a modus vivendi among and for themselves, rather than submitting to a superior authority.
Submission of disputes to the United Nations seems to many states in the modern world to be damaging to their face, not to mention compromising to their aspirations. But regional organizations of states may comprise common ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, historical outlook, economic concerns, and so on. Such a community of values may be much better suited, at least under certain circumstances, to bringing about a peace settlement among member states.
Most modern regional interstate organizations have clauses in their charters whereby the pacific settlement of disputes would naturally go to the regional organization first before going all the way to the U. In ancient Ionia, on the other hand, when the wars between Temnos and Klazomenai and between Herakleia and Miletos were brought to an end, every effort was made to reconcile the states, and promote regional harmony.
To that end, claims arising from the wars were dismissed, and sweeping amnesties were declared. The difference between the modern and the ancient approach exemplified here is one between an approach based on legalism and one based on equity. Adjudication in the strict sense, perhaps the prerogative of a superior authority, can appear to be a contest in which one side wins and the other loses, one side is shown to be right and the other wrong. It can create alienation and resentment rather than reconciliation, which is more achievable through mediation by a peer He was simply throwing diplomatic sand in the eyes of the Roman legates.
But the reciprocal nature of this activity among the Ionian states could well have bolstered their sense of regional identity and synergy. Priene helps out in a dispute between Smyrna and Phokaia; Smyrna arbitrates between Priene and Miletos I Priene , 27 and 65; Ager , n o and Such examples of regionalism may serve to demonstrate the justice of the claim that the divisiveness of the Greek poleis has been exaggerated, that in fact they were bound to each other in a common network of moral obligation that went beyond anything that could be produced between city and king, and that found expression in exactly such mutual favors as foreign judges and interstate arbitration The vital interaction between political units which are autonomous and of roughly similar status is one that has been recognized increasingly as one of great significance in regional development If we consider regions to be entities that are natural or organic, the Hellenistic monarchy, in its relations with the cities, was anything but.
Left to themselves, the cities of Ionia could be self-monitoring: free both to make war voluntarily, and to seek voluntarily the solution of a real peace, rather than one imposed by threat and intimidation. Other royal names appear in I Priene , 37 l.
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