The world of ancient Greece witnessed some of the most sophisticated and varied experiments with federalism in the pre-modern era. In the volatile interstate environment of Greece, federalism was a creative response to the challenge of establishing regional unity, while at the same time preserving a degree of local autonomy. To reconcile the forces of integration and independence, Greek federal states introduced, for example, the notion of proportional representation, the stratification of legal practice, and a federal grammar of festivals and cults. Federalism in Greek Antiquity provides the first comprehensive reassessment of the topic. It comprises detailed contributions on all federal states in Aegean Greece and its periphery. With every chapter written by a leading expert in the field, the book also incorporates thematic sections that place the topic in a broader historical and social-scientific context.
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A comprehensive reassessment of federalism and political integration in antiquity, including detailed descriptions of all the Greek federal states.
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Preface |
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A note on the transliteration of ancient Greek |
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1 An introduction to federalism in Greek antiquity |
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2 Federalism and ethnicity |
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30 | (19) |
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3 The community of the Hellenes |
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49 | (17) |
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4 Akarnania and the Akarnanian League |
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66 | (20) |
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5 Aitolia and the Aitolian League |
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86 | (32) |
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118 | (14) |
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7 Boiotia and the Boiotian Leagues |
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132 | (26) |
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8 The Euboian League -- an `irregular' koinon? |
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158 | (21) |
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9 The Lokrians and their federal leagues |
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179 | (20) |
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199 | (23) |
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11 Microfederalism in Central Greece: the Dorians and Oitaians |
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222 | (9) |
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231 | (19) |
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13 The Arkadian Confederacy |
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250 | (19) |
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14 Elis (with Akroria and Pisatis) |
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269 | (16) |
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15 Traces of federalism in Messenia |
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285 | (12) |
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297 | (22) |
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319 | (22) |
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18 The Chalkidike and the Chalkidians |
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341 | (17) |
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19 Federalism and the sea. The koina of the Aegean islands |
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358 | (19) |
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20 Federalism on Crete: The Cretan Koinon and the Koinon of the Oreioi |
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377 | (9) |
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21 The Italiote League and southern Italy |
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386 | (17) |
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403 | (16) |
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23 Federalism in the Kyrenaika? |
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419 | (15) |
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24 Forerunners of federal states: collaboration and integration through alliance in Archaic and Classical Greece |
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434 | (18) |
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25 The Hellenic leagues of late Classical and Hellenistic times and their place in the history of Greek federalism |
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452 | (19) |
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26 Peaceful conflict resolution in the world of the federal states |
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471 | (16) |
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27 The economics of federation in the ancient Greek world |
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487 | (16) |
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28 Ancient theoretical reflections on federalism |
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29 Greek federalism, the rediscovery of Polybius, and the framing of the American constitution |
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512 | (12) |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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Hans Beck is Professor of Ancient History, John McNaughton Chair of Classics, and Director of Classical Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University, Montréal. He is co-author, with John Buckler, of Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC (2008), editor of A Companion to Ancient Greek Government (2013) and, co-editor with Antonio Duplá, Martin Jehne and Francisco Pina Polo, of Consuls and Res Publica: Holding High Office in the Roman Republic (2011). In 2015 he won the Anneliese Maier Research Award for his contribution to the internationalisation of the humanities and social sciences in Germany. Peter Funke is Professor and Chair of Ancient History and Director of the Institute for Ancient History, the Institute for Epigraphy, and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriote Studies at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Münster. He is co-editor, with Nino Luraghi, of The Politics of Ethnicity and the Crisis of the Peloponnesian League (2009) and, with Matthias Haake, of Greek Federal States and Their Sanctuaries: Identity and Integration (2013).