Ethnos and Koinon : Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism

by: Beck, H. Buraselis, K. McAuley, A.

Kurztext
The ethnic turn has led to a paradigm shift in Classics and Ancient History. In Greek history, it toppled the traditional view that the various ethnos states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods drew on a remote pedigree of tribal togetherness. Instead, it appears that those leagues were built on essentially changing, flexible, and relatively late constructions of regional identities that took shape most often only in the Archaic period.
The implications are far-reaching. They impact the conception of an ethnos' political organization; and they spill over into the study of external relations. It has been posited that in their conduct of foreign policy, ethne often resorted to a federal program. Did ethne emulate each other, and did they inspire others to adopt a federal organization? More recently, it was argued that their foreign policy was charged with ethnicized attitudes. Did the idea of ethnic togetherness generally influence foreign policy? And, did everyone subscribe to the same blueprint of ethnicized arguments?

The contributions to this volume explore the lived and often contradictory experience between tribal belonging and political integration.

CONTENTS
List of Illustrations................................................................................................... 7
Hans Beck, Kostas Buraselis, & Alex McAuley
Preface ..................................................................................................................... 9
Emily Mackil
Ethnic Arguments.................................................................................................. 11
Giovanna Daverio Rocchi
Lokrian Federal and Local Proxenies in Interstate Relations: A Case Study ........ 29
Nikolaos Petrochilos
The Archaeological and Epigraphic Testimonies for the ethnos of the Western
Lokrians ................................................................................................................. 45
Albert Schachter
The Boiotians: Between ethnos and koina............................................................. 65
Angela Ganter
Federalism Based on Emotions?
Pamboiotian Festivals in Hellenistic and Roman Times ....................................... 83
Ruben Post
Integration and Coercion: Non–Boiotians in the Hellenistic Boiotian League ..... 99
Nikos Giannakopoulos
Euboian Unity in the 2nd Century BCE and the Chalkidian Embassy at
Amarynthos: The Limits of Roman–Sponsored Greek Federalism .....................113
Alex McAuley
Sans la lettre: Ethnicity, Politics, and Religion in the Argive theōria ................131
Claudia Antonetti
Spearhead and Boar Jawbone – An Invitation to Hunt in Aitolia:
?Foreign Policy? within the Aitolian League .......................................................149
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Jacek Rzepka
Federal Imperialism: Aitolian Expansion between Protectorate, Merger, and
Partition ................................................................................................................167
Sheila Ager
The Limits of Ethnicity: Sparta and the Achaian League .................................... 175
Catherine Grandjean
Internal Mechanisms, External Relationships of the Achaians:
A Numismatic Approach .....................................................................................193
Kostas Buraselis
Dissimilar Brothers: Similarities versus Differences of the
Achaian and Aitolian Leagues .............................................................................205
Athanassios Rizakis
Achaians and Lykians: A Comparison of Federal Institutions ............................ 219
James Roy
The Dynamics of the Arkadian ethnos, or poleis versus koinon ......................... 243
Cinzia Bearzot
The Foreign Policy of the Arkadian League:
From Lykomedes of Mantineia to staseis among homoethneis........................... 257
Maria Mili
Ἄπιστα τὰ τῶν Θετταλῶν: The Dubious Thessalian State .................................. 271
Margriet Haagsma, Laura Surtees & C. Myles Chykerda
Ethnic Constructs from Inside and Out:
External Policy and the ethnos of Achaia Phthiotis. ............................................ 285
Selene E. Psoma
The League of the Chalkideis:
Development of its External and Internal Relations and Organization ...............321
Adolfo J. Domínguez
The ethnos of the Thesprotians: Internal Organization and External Relations .. 339
Katerina Panagopoulou
Between Federal and Ethnic: The koinon Makedonōn and the Makedones
Revisited ..............................................................................................................363
Hans Beck
The Aiolians – A Phantom ethnos? .....................................................................385
Index ...................................................................................................................405

Ethnos and Koinon : Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism

by: Beck, H. Buraselis, K. McAuley, A.

• ISBN-13: 9783515122177 / 978-3-515-12217-7
• ISBN-03: 3515122176 / 3-515-12217-6
• Franz Steiner, Stuttgart, 2019