A comprehensive reassessment of federalism and political integration in antiquity, including detailed descriptions of all the Greek federal states.
camp did so in a lukewarm manner, the Thebans “were keen to fight and not play the coward. ... of the Megarian massacre a few lines later, supports our initial impression that Herodotus presented Thebes in an unfavorable light.
And, did everyone subscribe to the same blueprint of ethnicized arguments? The contributions to this volume explore the lived and often contradictory experience between tribal belonging and political integration.
... protector of their capital Helice, while the latter, 1Contrary to research studies such as that of Kirk (1965) that claim that the Trojan War occurred around 1100, other authors believe that it occurred at an earlier time.
This book analyses ancient Greek federalism by focusing on one of the most organised and advanced Greek federal states, the Achaean Federation Sympoliteia.
Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - Region: USA, grade: 1,3, , course: The Federalist, language: English, abstract: The significance of antiquity and of examples drawn from antiquity during the American founding era ...
Greek Federal States: Their Institutions and History
A comparative study of the ancient Mediterranean and Han China, seen through the lens of political culture.
... sacred sites and deities already in their land. Against the backdrop of Greece, Naxos itself might appear as a 'local horizon' of religious life; however, a closer look, especially in light of the epidemics of dreaming surrounding the ...
This book re-examines old polarities such as those between the Greek poleis and Eastern monarchies, or between the ancient consumer and the modern producer city, in order to show the fallacies of standard approaches.
Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History beyond Eurocentrism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. von Clausewitz, Carl. 1979. Verstreute kleine Schriften, edited by Werner Hahlweg. Osnabrück: Biblio. Walbank, Frank.