City and Empire in the Age of the Successors
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alexander the great
archaeological
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contest for supremacy
disparate territories
epigraphic
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fragmented world
greece
greek polis
hellenistic kingdoms
important cities
local actors
new cities
political struggles
presumptive rulers
settlement
small settlements
synoikism
textual evidence
undefended polities
urban agglomerations
urbanized network of cities
violence
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- ISBN 9780520296923
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 09 Feb 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled in the political struggles and unremitting violence of his successors’ contest for supremacy. As these presumptive rulers turned to the practical reality of administering the disparate territories under their control, they increasingly developed new cities by merging smaller settlements into large urban agglomerations. This practice of synoikism gave rise to many of the most important cities of the age, initiated major shifts in patterns of settlement, and consolidated numerous previously independent polities. The result was the increasing transformation of the fragmented world of the small Greek polis into an urbanized network of cities. Drawing on a wide array of archaeological, epigraphic, and textual evidence, City and Empire in the Age of the Successors reinterprets the role of urbanization in the creation of the Hellenistic kingdoms and argues for the agency of local actors in the formation of these new imperial cities.
Ryan Boehm is Assistant Professor of Classics at Tulane University.
