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Creating a Common Polity
Religion, Economy, and Politics in the
Making of the Greek Koinon
Emily Mackil
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Mackil, Emily Maureen.
Creating a common polity : religion, economy, and politics in the making of the Greek koinon / Emily Mackil.
p.cm. — (Hellenistic culture and society; 55)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-520-27250-7 (cloth, alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-520-95393-2 (ebook)
1. Greece—Politics and government—To 146 B.C 2. City-states—Greece—History. 3. Religion and state—Greece—History. I. Title.
JC73.M3372013
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CONTENTS
Preface
Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction
PART I. COOPERATION, COMPETITION, AND COERCION: A NARRATIVE HISTORY
1.The Archaic Period and the Fifth Century
2.The Fourth Century
Common Wars, Common Peaces, Common Polities, 404–371
Theban Hegemony and the Hegemony of the Koinon, 371–346
A New Macedonian Order, 346–323
3.The Hellenistic Period
Mainland Greece and the Wars of the Successors, 323–285
Independence and Expansion, 284–245
The Roman Entrance and the War against Kleomenes, 229–222
The Rise of Philip V and the Social War, 221–217
The First and Second Macedonian Wars: Rome, Aitolia, and Philip V, 215–196
The Freedom of the Greeks and the Dismantling of Regional Cooperation, 196–167
Bargaining with Rome, the Struggle for Sparta, and the End of the Achaian Koinon, 167–146
PART II. INTERACTIONS AND INSTITUTIONS
4.Cultic Communities
Building Regional Communities
Politicizing Regional Communities
Legitimating and Celebrating the Power of the Koinon
Reproducing the Power of the Koinon
5.Economic Communities
Cooperative Coinage and Early Forms of Economic
