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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Hellenistic culture and society ; 55
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Hellenistic culture and society ; 55.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
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 narr. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; Maps; Introduction; Strategies Old and New; Institutions; An Example; A Road Map; Part I. Cooperation, Competition, and Coercion: A Narrative History; 1. The Archaic Period and the Fifth Century; Boiotia; Achaia; Aitolia; 2. The Fourth Century; Common Wars, Common Peaces, Common Polities, 404-371; Theban Hegemony and the Hegemony of the Koinon, 371-346; A New Macedonian Order, 346-323; 3. The Hellenistic Period; Mainland Greece and the Wars of the Successors, 323-285. |
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Independence and Expansion, 284-245Shifting Alliances, 245-229; The Roman Entrance and the War against Kleomenes, 229-222; The Rise of Philip V and the Social War, 221-217; The First and Second Macedonian Wars: Rome, Aitolia, and Philip V, 215-196; The Freedom of the Greeks and the Dismantling of Regional Cooperation, 196-167; Bargaining with Rome, the Struggle for Sparta, and the End of the Achaian Koinon, 167-146; Part II. Interactions and Institutions; 4. Cultic Communities; Building Regional Communities; Politicizing Regional Communities. |
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Legitimating and Celebrating the Power of the KoinonReproducing the Power of the Koinon; 5. Economic Communities; Cooperative Coinage and Early Forms of Economic Cooperation; Protecting and Promoting Economic Mobility; Resource Complementarity and Economic Interdependence; Winning the Battle for Resources; Taxation and Regional State Revenues; Managing Economic Crises and Disputes; 6. Political Communities; Coercion and Cooperation in the Formation of the Koinon; The Terms of the Federal Compromise; Enforcement, Negotiation, and Institutional Stability; Conclusion. |
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Appendix: Epigraphic DossierI. Boiotia: T1-T33; II. Achaia: T34-T46; III. Aitolia: T47-T61; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index Locorum. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
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Greece. |
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Politics and government. |
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To 146 B.C |
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City-states -- Greece -- History.
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City-states. |
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History. |
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Religion and state -- Greece -- History.
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Religion and state. |
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To 146 B.C. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books -- Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mackil, Emily Maureen, 1973- Creating a common polity. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2012 9780520272507 (DLC) 2012012446 (OCoLC)786002494 |
| ISBN |
9780520953932 (electronic book) |
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0520953932 (electronic book) |
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1299605516 (electronic book) |
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9781299605510 (electronic book) |
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9780520272507 |
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0520272501 |
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