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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 the first book in fifty years to tackle the rise of these so-called Greek federal states, Emily Mackil charts a complex, fascinating map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic interactions faciliated political cooperation and the emergence of a new kind of state. Mackil provides a detailed historical narrative spanning five centuries to contextualize her analyses, which focus on the three best-attested areas of mainland Greece - Boiotia, Achaia, and Aitolia. The analysis is supported by a dossier of Greek inscriptions, each text accompanied by an English translation and commentary.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History History: earliest times to present day

• Full title: Creating a Common Polity
• Author: Emily Mackil
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 624
• EAN: 9780520272507
• ISBN: 0520272501
• ID: 01204115
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Weight: 972 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 162 × 41 mm
• Date of publishing: 25. April 2015

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