Chapter 1. Doing Comparative Anthropology in the Field of Politics [*] There is a long history behind the Greeks and us. Clearly, the Greeks are not a tribe or even an ethnic group like others. At the heart of what historians complacently call “the history of the West,” the Greeks represent a real stake, in the sense of what may be either… Read more
Chapter 2. The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities [*] Here, I have decided to speak of “the gods” rather than “religion.” The “gods” know why I have rejected a modern reference to “religion.” I confess that I have never held the terms “religious” and “religion” in high esteem. And that is not solely because those terms, with their associations with… Read more
Works Cited Abélès, M. 1983. Le lieu du politique. Paris. ———. 2003. “Revenir chez les Ochollo.” In Detienne 2003b:393–413. Ackerman, R. 1987. J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work. Cambridge. Allen, T. W., Halliday, W. R., and Sikes, E. E. 1936. The Homeric Hymns. 2nd ed. Oxford. Altherr-Charon, A., and… Read more
Acknowledgements Peter Funke and Nino Luraghi Most of the contributions collected in this book were first submitted as papers at the conference “Ethnizität als Argument. Der Untergang des Peloponnesischen Bundes,” held at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität of Münster (Germany) on November 14th–16th, 2003. The editors wish to acknowledge the generous financial support of the Gerda-Henkel-Stiftung, which made the conference possible. In Münster, Dr. Matthias Haake and Ms. Read more
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 = Jacoby, F., ed. 1923–1964. Fragmente der griechischen Historiker. Berlin, then Leiden. Read more
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, my contribution has an introductory function and will try to sketch a background of sorts… Read more
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 contexts. For this reason, I will not discuss the ethnogenesis… Read more
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 a political unit. The details of this process are not… Read more
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 its emergence this ethnic identity was transformed in order to make the Triphylians members of… Read more
Image Credits Figure 1. Metropolitan Museum of Art, purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1953; acc. no. 53.11.4. Photo, all rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Figure 2. Musée du Louvre, acc. no. G 104. Photo, Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Art Resource, NY. Figure 3. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, acc. no. IN 2695. Photo, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Figure 4. Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of… Read more
