Emily Mackil

Creating a Common Polity (eBook, ePUB)

Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Kensington Books
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780520953932
• Artikelnr.: 50012231

Autorenporträt

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