Creating a common polity : religion, economy, and politics in the making of the Greek koinon / Emily Mackil.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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 a study that tackles the rise of these so-called Greek federal states, the author charts a complex map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic interactions facilitated political cooperation and the emergence of a new kind of state.

Introduction -- Cooperation, competition, and coercion : a narrative history. The archaic period and the fifth century ; The fourth century ; The Hellenistic period -- Interactions and institutions. Cultic communities ; Economic communities ; Political communities ; Conclusion -- Appendix : epigraphic dossier.

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