Introduction: Imagining, Establishing, and Instituting Peace / E.P. Moloney and Michael Stuart Williams -- PART I. IMAGINING PEACE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Solon the Peacemaker / William Allan -- Aristotle on Peace : Biological, Political, Ethical, and Metaphysical Dimensions / William Desmond -- (What's so Funny 'bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding? : Imagining Peace in Greek Comedy / Ian Ruffell -- Reconciliation in Later Classical and Post-Classical Greek Cities : a Question of Peace and Peacefulness? / Benjamin Gray -- Negotiating Ideas of Peace in the Civic Conflicts of the late Republic / Hannah Cornwell -- Peace and Empire : Pacare, Pacatus and the Language of Roman Imperialism / Myles Lavan -- Blessed are the Peacemakers : Visions of Christian Peace from Christ to Constantine / David M. Gwynn -- PART II. ESTABLISHING PEACE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Cyrus the Great : an Unconventional Peacemaker / Selga Medenieks -- International Arbitration in Archaic Greece / Aideen Carty -- Once an Ally, Always an Ally : Sparta's Approach to Policing the Oaths of her Allies in the late-Fifth and early-Fourth Centuries / Andrew Bayliss -- The Compromise of Kings : Philip II and Macedonian Peace / E.P. Moloney -- Deditio in the Second Century BC : Subjugation and Reconciliation / John Richardson -- How Wars End : Three Thoughts on the Fall of Jerusalem / John Curran -- PART III. INSTITUTING PEACE IN THE ANCIENT WORLD -- Identity Building as a Means of Conflict Resolution, or, Thucydides' Struggle with Hellenic Discourses / Christoph Ulf -- Monuments to Victory and Symbols of Peace and Reconciliation? : Re-viewing Post-War Building in Classical Athens and Achaemenid Persia / Janett Morgan -- Peace and Reconciliation, Athenian-Style / M.J. Edwards -- Beyond War, Imperialism, and Panhellenism : Xenophon's Eirenic Thought / Joseph Jansen -- Punishment and Reconciliation : Augustine / P.I. Kaufman -- Reading Reconciliation in Late Antique Altercationes / Michael Stuart Williams