Creating a Common Polity

Emily Mackil

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780520953932
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Ancient History
• Index: History

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication Page
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• Maps
• Introduction
• Part I. Cooperation, Competition, and Coercion: A Narrative History
• Part II. Interactions and Institutions
• Conclusion
• Appendix: Epigraphic Dossier
• Bibliography
• Index of Subjects
• Index Locorum