William Mack

Proxeny and Polis

Institutional Networks in the Ancient Greek World

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Hurst & Co.
• Seitenzahl: 432
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780198713869
• ISBN-10: 019871386X
• Artikelnr.: 47866730

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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