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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-...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mackil, Emily Maureen, 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Cooperation, competition, and coercion : a narrative history. The archaic period and the fifth century ; The fourth century ; The Hellenistic period
  • Interactions and institutions. Cultic communities ; Economic communities ; Political communities ; Conclusion
  • Appendix : epigraphic dossier.