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All too often, the modern political sciences attribute the development of a purely pragmatic, non-idealistic state theory to Machiavelli, perhaps with some fl eeting allusions to the importance of Plato, Aristotle or Polybius. However, a closer examination of our sources shows that many other civilisations have developed similar approaches, generally in periods experiencing political and social transformations not dissimilar to the complex evolutions of the European 16th century. In this paper, we will try to critically compare a series of authors in order to demonstrate the interest of a cross-cultural approach to the subject of state-theory, namely Sūn Zǐ, Kauṭilya, Aineias Taktikos and Machiavelli.

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„Da richteten sie in Jerusalem ein Gymnasion her, wie es auch die Heiden hatten.“ Das Gymnasion von Jerusalem und der Aufstand der Makkabäer: Sport, Religion und Politik.

David Engels

ELECTRUM, Volume 21, 2014, pp. 43-71

https://doi.org/10.4467/20800909EL.14.001.2779

The following paper presents an extensive overview over the motivations, circumstances and consequences of the foundation of an Hellenistic gymnasium and the constitution of a civic group of “Antiochenes” within early Seleucid Jerusalem by the philhellenic Jewish elite gathered around the high priest Jason.

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David Engels

Institute for Western Affairs, Poznan, Poland
Université Libre de Bruxelles; Franklin Rooseveltlaan 50, 1050 Brussel, Belgium

Institute for Western Affairs, Poznan, Poland

Université Libre de Bruxelles; Franklin Rooseveltlaan 50, 1050 Brussel, Belgium