Notes on Contributors vii Series Editor’s Preface ix Introduction 1Kurt A. Raaflaub 1 Abhorring War, Yearning for Peace: The Quest for Peace in the Ancient World 12Kurt A. Raaflaub 2 Concepts of Peace in Ancient Egypt 43Susanne Bickel 3 Thinking about Peace in Ancient India 67Johannes Bronkhorst 4 Searching for Peace in the Warring States: Philosophical Debates and the Management of Violence in Early China 98Robin D. S. Yates 5 Greek Concepts and Theories of Peace 122Kurt A. Raaflaub 6 Broadening the Scope: Thinking about Peace in the Pre-Modern World 158Hans Van Wees Index 181

Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation into why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace, while others did not. The volume discusses the possibility that concepts of peace were most likely to develop in regions and periods which experienced higher rates of warfare than usual. Focusing on case studies from China, India, Egypt, and Greece, an international group of renowned scholars specifically and systematically explore the ways and reasons through which these societies did or did not produce public discourse, specific concepts, and theories of peace. The scholarship in this volume draws on themes from War and Peace in the Ancient World (Wiley, 2007), building out a more comprehensive picture of ancient concepts of peace and the factors that influenced societies to develop these conceptualizations.