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III. MEANS OF OBSCURING IMPERIALISM 19-25

1. Symmachia the basis of the Peloponnesian league, 20.

a. Support of oligarchies, 21.

2. Stasis, or civil war, 22.

3. Symmachia the basis of the Athenian empire, 23.

a. Support of democracies, 23.

b. Maintenance of the union, 24.

IV. FAILURE OF HEGEMONIES 25-30

1. The idea of proportionate representation, 27.

V. MEANS OF EVADING IMPERIALISM 30-34

1. Grant of Polity, or citizenship, 30.

2. Grant of Isopolity, or reciprocity of citizenship, 31.

3. Grant of Sympolity, or joint citizenship, 32.

VI. MEANS OF JUSTIFYING IMPERIALISM 34-37

1. Deification of kings, 35.

II. ATHENS: AN IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY

I. ORIGIN OF THE IMPERIAL DEMOCRACY 38-41

1. Themistocles, 39.

2. Pericles, 41.

II. SIZE AND POPULATION OF ATHENS AND ITS EMPIRE 42-43

III. THE FUNERAL ORATION: THE IDEALS OF PERICLEAN DEMOCRACY 43-48

IV. THE INSTITUTIONS OF DEMOCRACY 49-65

1. Ecclesia and heliæa; their conjoined activity, 49.

2. The council of the 500 and the committees of magistrates, 51.

a. The ten prytanies, 52.

b. Election by lot; annual tenure of office; rotation, 52, 53, 55.

3. The ecclesia an assembly of high-class amateurs, 57.

a. Its use of experts, 58.

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