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E-book: Federalism in Greek Antiquity

Edited by (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Germany), Edited by (McGill University, Montréal)
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  • Pub. Date: 05-Nov-2015
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: eng
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  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Language: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781316396841

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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.
List of maps
viii
List of contributors
ix
Preface xiii
A note on the transliteration of ancient Greek xvi
List of abbreviations
xvii
Maps
xxi
1 An introduction to federalism in Greek antiquity
1(29)
Hans Beck
Peter Funke
2 Federalism and ethnicity
30(19)
Jonathan M. Hall
3 The community of the Hellenes
49(17)
Lynette G. Mitchell
4 Akarnania and the Akarnanian League
66(20)
Klaus Freitag
5 Aitolia and the Aitolian League
86(32)
Peter Funke
6 The Achaian League
118(14)
Athanasios Rizakis
7 Boiotia and the Boiotian Leagues
132(26)
Hans Beck
Angela Ganter
8 The Euboian League -- an `irregular' koinon?
158(21)
Denis Knoepfler
9 The Lokrians and their federal leagues
179(20)
Giovanna Daverio Rocchi
10 Phokis
199(23)
Jeremy McInerney
11 Microfederalism in Central Greece: the Dorians and Oitaians
222(9)
Denis Rousset
12 The Thessalian League
231(19)
Richard Bouchon
Bruno Helly
13 The Arkadian Confederacy
250(19)
Thomas Heine Nielsen
14 Elis (with Akroria and Pisatis)
269(16)
James Roy
15 Traces of federalism in Messenia
285(12)
Nino Luraghi
16 Molossia and Epeiros
297(22)
Elizabeth A. Meyer
17 Federal Makedonia
319(22)
Miltiades Hatzopoulos
18 The Chalkidike and the Chalkidians
341(17)
Michael Zahrnt
19 Federalism and the sea. The koina of the Aegean islands
358(19)
Kostas Buraselis
20 Federalism on Crete: The Cretan Koinon and the Koinon of the Oreioi
377(9)
Angelos Chaniotis
21 The Italiote League and southern Italy
386(17)
Michael P. Fronda
22 The Lykian League
403(16)
Ralf Behrwald
23 Federalism in the Kyrenaika?
419(15)
Alex McAuley
24 Forerunners of federal states: collaboration and integration through alliance in Archaic and Classical Greece
434(18)
Kurt A. Raaflaub
25 The Hellenic leagues of late Classical and Hellenistic times and their place in the history of Greek federalism
452(19)
Bernhard Smarczyk
26 Peaceful conflict resolution in the world of the federal states
471(16)
Sheila Ager
27 The economics of federation in the ancient Greek world
487(16)
Emily Mackil
28 Ancient theoretical reflections on federalism
503(9)
Cinzia Bearzot
29 Greek federalism, the rediscovery of Polybius, and the framing of the American constitution
512(12)
Gustav Adolf Lehmann
Bibliography 524(66)
Index 590
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).