ENGLISH

Creating a common polity : religion, economy, and politics in the making of the Greek koinon

By Mackil , Emily Maureen

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0520272501, 978-0-520-27250-7, 978-0-520-95393-2, 0520953932, 9781299605510, 1299605516, 1908-225-27-0, 11-1996-193-9
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4562357 bytes)
Series
Hellenistic culture and society 55
Pages
624\0
Topic
History
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

Description

In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to tackle the rise of these so-called Greek federal states, Emily Mackil charts a complex, fascinating map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic interactions faciliated political cooperation and the emergence of a new kind of state. Mackil provides a detailed historical narrative spanning five centuries to contextualize her analyses, which focus on the three best-attested areas of mainland Greece—Boiotia, Achaia, and Aitolia. The analysis is supported by a dossier of Greek inscriptions, each text accompanied by an English translation and commentary.

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