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Product details
- ISBN 9780520290839
- Weight: 771g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 25 Apr 2016
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 facilitated 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.
Emily Mackil is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.
