Proxeny and Polis - Institutional Networks in the Ancient Greek World

Zusatztext very lucid, beautiful and thorough book Informationen zum Autor William Mack spent ten years at Oxford University, first as an undergraduate and graduate at Corpus Christi College, and then as Fellow by Special Election in Ancient History at Wadham College. He is now Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture at the University of Birmingham. Klappentext This volume is a study of the role which institutions played in the interstate system of the ancient Greek world (the most complex in recorded history), exploring how and why the thousand or more Greek city-states used interstate institutions to network with each other over a period of five hundred years and why this changed under the Roman Empire. Zusammenfassung This volume is a study of the role which institutions played in the interstate system of the ancient Greek world (the most complex in recorded history), exploring how and why the thousand or more Greek city-states used interstate institutions to network with each other over a period of five hundred years and why this changed under the Roman Empire. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface List of Maps List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1: The Anatomy of an Ancient Institution 2: Proxeny in its Political Contexts 3: Proxeny Networks 4: Proxeny and the Performance of Polis-Identity 5: The Disappearance of Proxeny and the Domination of Rome Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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• Authors: William Mack, William (Lecturer in Ancient Greek History a Mack, William (Lecturer in Ancient Greek History and Culture Mack, William Joseph Behm Ga Mack, Mack William
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.03.2015
• EAN: 9780198713869
• ISBN: 978-0-19-871386-9
• No. of pages: 432
• Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents; Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu; Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents; Oxford Studies in Ancient Docu
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient Rome, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory