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FEDERALISM IN GREEK ANTIQUITY The world of ancient Greece witnessed some of the most sophisti- catedandvariedexperimentswithfederalisminthepre-modernera. In the volatile interstate environment of Greece, federalism was a creativeresponsetothechallengeofestablishingregionalunity,while atthesametimepreservingadegreeoflocalautonomy.Toreconcile the forces of integration and independence, Greek federal states introduced, for example, the notion of proportional representation, thestratificationoflegalpractice,andafederalgrammaroffestivals and cults. Federalism in Greek Antiquity provides the first compre- hensivereassessmentofthetopic.Itcomprisesdetailedcontributions on all federalstates in AegeanGreece and its periphery. With every chapterwrittenbyaleadingexpertinthefield,thebookalsoincor- poratesthematicsectionsthatplacethetopicinabroaderhistorical andsocial-scientificcontext. hans beck is Professor of Ancient History, John MacNaughton ChairofClassics,andDirectorofClassicalStudiesintheDepartment ofHistoryandClassicalStudies,McGillUniversity.Heisco-author, with John Buckler, of Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century bc (2008), editor of A Companion to Ancient Greek Government(2013)andco-editor,withAntonioDuplá,MartinJehne, and Francisco Pina Polo, of Consuls and Res Publica: Holding High OfficeintheRomanRepublic(2011). peterfunkeisProfessorandChairofAncientHistory,andDirector of the Institute for Ancient History, the Institute for Epigraphy, and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Cypriot Studies at Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität in Münster. He is co-editor, with Nino Luraghi,ofThePoliticsofEthnicityandtheCrisisofthePeloponnesian League (2009) and, with MatthiasHaake,of GreekFederal States and TheirSanctuaries.IdentityandIntegration(2013). FEDERALISM IN GREEK ANTIQUITY editors HANS BECK AND PETER FUNKE UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521192262 ©CambridgeUniversityPress2015 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2015 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyClays,StIvesplc AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloguinginPublicationData FederalisminGreekantiquity/HansBeckandPeterFunke,editors. pages cm isbn978-0-521-19226-2(hardback) 1. Federalgovernment–Greece–History–To1500. 2. City-states–Greece– History–To1500. 3. Politicalculture–Greece–History–To1500. 4. Regionalism–Politicalaspects–Greece–History– To1500. 5. Greece–Politicsandgovernment–To146b.c. I. Beck, Hans,1969– II. Funke,Peter,1950– jc75.f3f43 2015 320.4380049–dc23 2015015129 isbn978-0-521-19226-2Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Listofmaps pageviii Listofcontributors ix Preface xiii AnoteonthetransliterationofancientGreek xvi Listofabbreviations xvii Maps xxi 1. AnintroductiontofederalisminGreekantiquity 1 HansBeckandPeterFunke 2. Federalismandethnicity 30 JonathanM.Hall 3. ThecommunityoftheHellenes 49 LynetteG.Mitchell 4. AkarnaniaandtheAkarnanianLeague 66 KlausFreitag 5. AitoliaandtheAitolianLeague 86 PeterFunke 6. TheAchaianLeague 118 AthanasiosRizakis 7. BoiotiaandtheBoiotianLeagues 132 HansBeckandAngelaGanter 8. TheEuboianLeague–an‘irregular’koinon? 158 DenisKnoepfler 9. TheLokriansandtheirfederalleagues 179 GiovannaDaverioRocchi v vi Contents 10. Phokis 199 JeremyMcInerney 11. MicrofederalisminCentralGreece:theDoriansandOitaians 222 DenisRousset 12. TheThessalianLeague 231 RichardBouchonandBrunoHelly 13. TheArkadianConfederacy 250 ThomasHeineNielsen 14. Elis(withAkroriaandPisatis) 269 JamesRoy 15. TracesoffederalisminMessenia 285 NinoLuraghi 16. MolossiaandEpeiros 297 ElizabethA.Meyer 17. FederalMakedonia 319 MiltiadesHatzopoulos 18. TheChalkidikeandtheChalkidians 341 MichaelZahrnt 19. Federalismandthesea.ThekoinaoftheAegeanislands 358 KostasBuraselis 20. FederalismonCrete:TheCretanKoinonandtheKoinon oftheOreioi 377 AngelosChaniotis 21. TheItalioteLeagueandsouthernItaly 386 MichaelP.Fronda 22. TheLykianLeague 403 RalfBehrwald 23. FederalismintheKyrenaïka? 419 AlexMcAuley 24. Forerunnersoffederalstates:collaborationandintegration throughallianceinArchaicandClassicalGreece 434 KurtA.Raaflaub Contents vii 25. TheHellenicleaguesoflateClassicalandHellenistic timesandtheirplaceinthehistoryofGreekfederalism 452 BernhardSmarczyk 26. Peacefulconflictresolutionintheworldofthefederalstates 471 SheilaAger 27. TheeconomicsoffederationintheancientGreekworld 487 EmilyMackil 28. Ancienttheoreticalreflectionsonfederalism 503 CinziaBearzot 29. Greekfederalism,therediscoveryofPolybius,and theframingoftheAmericanconstitution 512 GustavAdolfLehmann Bibliography 524 Index 590 Maps 1: NorthernandCentralGreece pagexxi 2: CentralGreeceandthePeloponnese xxii 3: CreteandthecentralAegean xxiii 4a: Lesbosandsurroundings xxiv 4b: LykiaandRhodes xxv 5: SouthernItalyandSicily xxvi 6: TheKyrenaïka xxvii viii
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