Ethnos and Koinon : studies in ancient Greek ethnicity and federalism

The ethnic turn has led to a paradigm shift in Classics and Ancient History. In Greek history, it toppled the traditional view that the various ethnos states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods drew on a remote pedigree of tribal togetherness. Instead, it appears that those leagues were built on essentially changing, flexible, and relatively late constructions of regional identities that took shape most often only in the Archaic period. The implications are far-reaching. They impact the conception of an ethnos' political organization; and they spill over into the study of external relations. It has been posited that in their conduct of foreign policy, ethne often resorted to a federal program. Did ethne emulate each other, and did they inspire others to adopt a federal organization? More recently, it was argued that their foreign policy was charged with ethnicized attitudes. Did the idea of ethnic togetherness generally influence foreign policy? And, did everyone subscribe to the same blueprint of ethnicized arguments? The contributions to this volume explore the lived and often contradictory experience between tribal belonging and political integration.-- Publisher's website CONTENTS 6 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 8 (Hans Beck, Kostas Buraselis, & Alex McAuley) Preface 10 (Emily Mackil) Ethnic Arguments 12 (Giovanna Daverio Rocchi) Lokrian Federal and Local Proxenies in Interstate Relations: A Case Study 30 (Nikolaos Petrochilos) The Archaeological and Epigraphic Testimonies for the ethnos of the Western Lokrians 46 (Albert Schachter) The Boiotians: Between ethnos and koina 66 (Angela Ganter) Federalism Based on Emotions? Pamboiotian Festivals in Hellenistic and Roman Times 84 (Ruben Post) Integration and Coercion: Non–Boiotians in the Hellenistic Boiotian League 100 (Nikos Giannakopoulos) Euboian Unity in the 2nd Century BCE and the Chalkidian Embassy at Amarynthos: The Limits of Roman–Sponsored Greek Federalism 114 (Alex McAuley) Sans la lettre: Ethnicity, Politics, and Religion in the Argive theōria 132 (Claudia Antonetti) Spearhead and Boar Jawbone – An Invitation to Hunt in Aitolia: ‘Foreign Policy’ within the Aitolian League 150 (Jacek Rzepka) Federal Imperialism: Aitolian Expansion between Protectorate, Merger, and Partition 168 (Sheila Ager) The Limits of Ethnicity: Sparta and the Achaian League 176 (Catherine Grandjean) Internal Mechanisms, External Relationships of the Achaians: A Numismatic Approach 194 (Kostas Buraselis) Dissimilar Brothers: Similarities versus Differences of the Achaian and Aitolian Leagues 206 (Athanassios Rizakis) Achaians and Lykians: A Comparison of Federal Institutions 220 (James Roy) The Dynamics of the Arkadian ethnos, or poleis versus koinon 244 (Cinzia Bearzot) The Foreign Policy of the Arkadian League: From Lykomedes of Mantineia to staseis among homoethneis 258 (Maria Mili) Ἄπιστα τὰ τῶν Θετταλῶν: The Dubious Thessalian State 272 (Margriet Haagsma, Laura Surtees & C. Myles Chykerda) Ethnic Constructs from Inside and Out: External Policy and the ethnos of Achaia Phthiotis 286 (Selene E. Psoma) The League of the Chalkideis: Development of its External and Internal Relations and Organization 322 (Adolfo J. Domínguez) The ethnos of the Thesprotians: Internal Organization and External Relations 340 (Katerina Panagopoulou) Between Federal and Ethnic: The koinon Makedonōn and the Makedones Revisited 364 (Hans Beck) The Aiolians – A Phantom ethnos? 386 INDEX 406 "The ethnic turn has led to a paradigm shift in Classics and Ancient History. In Greek history, it toppled the traditional view that the various ethnos states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods drew on a remote pedigree of tribal togetherness. Instead, it appears that those leagues were built on essentially changing, flexible, and relatively late constructions of regional identities that took shape most often only in the Archaic period. The implications are far-reaching. They impact the conception of an ethnos' political organization; and they spill over into the study of external relations. It has been posited that in their conduct of foreign policy, ethne often resorted to a federal program. Did ethne emulate each other, and did they inspire others to adopt a federal organization? More recently, it was argued that their foreign policy was charged with ethnicized attitudes. Did the idea of ethnic togetherness generally influence foreign policy? And, did everyone subscribe to the same blueprint of ethnicized arguments? The contributions to this volume explore the lived and often contradictory experience between tribal belonging and political integration".- eLibrary