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Creating a common polity : religion, economy, and politics in the making of the Greek koinon /
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 a study that tackles the rise of these so-...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2012]
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| Colección: | Hellenistic culture and society ;
55. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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 a study that tackles the rise of these so-called Greek federal states, the author charts a complex map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic interactions facilitated political cooperation and the emergence of a new kind of state. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780520953932 0520953932 1299605516 9781299605510 |