Civic concord
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
concord · civil faction · friendship · revolution · unity
in the texts
Against Androtion
Internal civic harmony presented as part of Athens' imperishable glory.
they conquered their enemies, they fulfilled the prayers of every sound-hearted man by establishing concord throughout the city;
Orations
The value of civic unity and mutual trust among citizens, urged as more valuable than material adornment.
Now, then, it is your task not to belie his judgement, but to show yourselves holding the assembly prudently and well, and first, as it seems to me, to adorn yourselves with friendship and concord toward one another;
Panathenaicus
The internal stability and absence of faction attributed to Sparta as evidence of valor, hardihood, and political order.
for of all the other Hellenic states, many as they are, no man could cite or find a single one which has not been involved in the misadventures which are wont to happen to states, whereas in the city of the Spartans no one can show an instance of civil faction or slaughter or unlawful exile, nor of seizure of property or outrage to women and children, nor even of revolution or abolition of debts o …