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The Greek Utopias in the Hellenistic Period

In the classical period, the Greek utopias were confined to a small island or city-state and could not escape from this limit. These utopias were narrow-minded, the polis in the classical period set limits to the cultural boundaries of Greek utopian thought. It was Alexander the Great who described the human brotherhood in which neither Greeks nor barbarians were. Zeno captured this idea and proposed us the first universal utopia. Zeno described One Great City . Zeno concentrated upon the World State. Thus we can find the vague origin of modern international relations and international law in Zeno’s utopia. Criticizing the Athenian bourgeois philosophy of Plato and Aristoteles, Evemerus, Ia mbulus and Theopompus make a vivid description of universal utopias. The Greek utopias in the Hellenistic period founded the modern utopias for the citizen of world state. These utopias have been playing a vital role in establishing world-scale utopias throughout the history. To conclude, we can use these utopias as a tool not only to trans form and destrroy the existing order but also to construct modern utopias.