Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon - Couverture souple

Mackil, Emily

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520290836 ISBN 13 : 9780520290839

Editeur : University of California Press, 2011

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emily Mackil is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520290836
• ISBN 13: 9780520290839
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 626
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