The Hellenistic Peloponnese: Interstate Relations

A Narrative and Analytic History from the Fourth Century to 4th BC

Ioanna Kralli (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

556 Seiten

2017
Classical Press of Wales (Verlag)
978-1-910589-60-1 (ISBN)

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Modern treatments of Peloponnesian history are often fragmented by poleis and period. This book offers a comprehensive narrative of the political history of the entire Peloponnese from 371 to 146 bc, using both literary and epigraphic evidence. In the Hellenistic Peloponnese a long shadow was cast by the great changes of the 4th century. After Sparta's long-invincible army had been defeated at the battle of Leuktra (371), internal divisions and alliances were patterned by the interventions of external powers: Thebans, Macedonian rulers, and finally the Romans. The author's findings reveal remarkable consistencies in the history of the Peloponnese. Sparta's confidence and ambition refused to die; other Peloponnesian states conducted foreign policies in reaction initially to Sparta's decline but, later, to her resurgence – and to the prospect of further resurgence still. The book reveals continuity as regards Sparta in the foreign policies of Elis, most of Arkadia, Messenia, and the Achaian Confederacy. These definite patterns formed Peloponnesian history far beyond the narrow relation of each community to Sparta: they also shaped the relation of most major Peloponnesian states to each other and to external powers.

Ioanna Kralli is Assistant Professor at the Ionian University (Corfu, Greece). In earlier publications, she has studied the political relations of Athens with various kings during the Hellenistic period, mainly from epigraphic testimonia; continuity and change in Athenian political and military practices and organization; images of Hellenistic Athens in the historiographic tradition; and the political exploitation of the Panhellenic Games by Hellenistic rulers.

Contents
Ch.1 From Leuktra to Mantineia (371-362)
Ch.2 In the arms of the Argeads: the beginnings of the Hellenistic period for the Peloponnese, down to 330
Ch.3 The Peloponnesians with Alexander’s Diadochoi and without the Spartans (323-280)
Ch.4 The Spartans return – Macedon and Sparta bring Peloponnesians together (280-260s)
Ch.5 The emergence and expansion of the Achaian confederacy: the political unification of the north-eastern and central Peloponnese (251-229)
Ch.6 ‘The Spartans weren’t to be led and ordered around’: the Peloponnesian poleis between the Achaian confederacy and Kleomenes III (228-222)
Ch.7 The Social War: Philip V bearing gifts to the Achaian Confederacy and reshaping intra-Peloponnesian relations (220-217)
Ch. 8 The unification of the Peloponnese – and disaster (early 2nd century-146)
Ch.9 Aspects of friendly intra-Peloponnesian relations: participation in festivals and awarding of honours

Erscheinungsdatum	14.07.2017
Reihe/Serie	The Hellenistic World
Verlagsort	Swansea
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	1154 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-910589-60-8 / 1910589608
ISBN-13	978-1-910589-60-1 / 9781910589601
Zustand	Neuware