IX. The Archaeology of Ethnê and Ethnicity in the Fourth-Century Peloponnese Catherine Morgan It is nowadays hardly controversial to view poleis and ethnê not as distinct forms of state, but as tiers of identity with which communities identified with varying enthusiasm and motivation at different times. [*] States were palimpsests of […]
VIII. Ethnicity and Democracy in the Peloponnese, 401–362 BCE Eric Robinson In 370 BCE civil strife broke out in Tegea between a conservative party favoring Tegea’s traditional laws (patrious nomous) and a popular, nationalistic party in favor of all Arcadians coming together en tô koinô to make common decisions. The populists […]
VII. Messenian Ethnicity and the Free Messenians [*] Nino Luraghi The birth of an independent polity in Messenia, in what used to be the western part of the Spartan state, represents the most conspicuous change that the ethnic revival of the early fourth century brought to the political map of the […]
VI. Arcadia: Ethnicity and Politics in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE [*] Maria Pretzler The emergence of Arcadian identity, and its culmination in the foundation of an Arcadian state in 370 BCE, was a crucial factor in the disintegration of the Peloponnesian League. With very few exceptions Arcadia becomes visible […]
V. The Emergence of Pisatis Maurizio Giangiulio Emergence, or Re-emergence? At the end of the nineteenth century probably no ancient historian would have doubted that the Pisatans had been the inhabitants of the Alpheios’ valley, which in the first decades of the sixth century BCE the Eleans subdued and stripped […]
IV. Triphylia from Elis to Arcadia Claudia Ruggeri Tριφυλια and its inhabitants, the Τριφύλιοι, provide an important example of the creation of a new ethnic identity that can be dated to a precise historical context and investigated at the very moment of its emergence. Even more interestingly, some thirty years after […]
III. Elis James Roy Background In the Dark Age there was limited settlement in northern and central Elis, grouped principally in the Peneios valley and the Alpheios valley. [1] Then between the Dark Age and the archaic period the communities of the Peneios valley must somehow have coalesced to form […]
II. Achaea and the Peloponnese in the Late Fifth-Early Fourth Centuries Klaus Freitag The present contribution investigates the relationship of Achaea to Sparta in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BCE [1] in order to find out whether ethnicity played a role in that relationship and, if so, in which […]
I. Between Mantinea and Leuctra: The Political World of the Peloponnese in a Time of Upheaval Peter Funke The aim of the reflections that follow is to define the historical and political framework in which to locate the central topic of the conference whose results are presented here. In other words, […]
Abbreviations CEG = Hansen, P. A., ed. 1983. Carmina epigraphica Graeca saeculorum. VIII–Va.Chr. n. Berlin and New York. DGE = Schwyzer, E., ed. 1923. Dialectorum Graecarum exempla epigraphica potiora. Leipzig. FdD = 1909–. Fouilles de Delphes. Vol. III, Les Inscriptions. Paris FGH […]