Chapters

X. Robert Parker, Subjection, Synoecism and Religious Life

X. Subjection, Synoecism and Religious Life Robert Parker The Eleans have bought Epeion for thirty talents (Xenophon Hellenica 3.2.30); the Eleans refuse to surrender the Marganeis and Skillountians and Triphylians, claiming that “these cities are ours” (6.5.2); the Eleans capture Lasion, which “of old had belonged to them, but at present was enrolled in (συντελεĩν εἰς) the Arkadikon” (7.4.12). The Spartans force the Mantineans to “dioecize… Read more

XI. Christoph Ulf, The Development of Greek Ethnê and their Ethnicity: An Anthropological Perspective

XI. The Development of Greek Ethnê and their Ethnicity: An Anthropological Perspective Christoph Ulf Standard definitions of koinon/league have been, and often still are, based on the assumption of the existence of units that defined themselves in ethnic terms (ethnê), which extend far back in time. This tendency is connected with the conviction that all human communities are “ethnic” in that they are founded on biological… Read more

Contributors

Contributors Klaus Freitag is Professor of Ancient History at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule in Aachen. The history of the Gulf of Corinth is one of his main areas of specialization, to which he devoted the book Der Golf von Korinth. Historisch-topographische Untersuchungen von der Archaik bis in das 1. Jh. v. Chr. (Munich 2000). Peter Funke is Professor of Ancient History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Munster. He has… Read more

Preface

Preface [In this on-line version, the page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{69|70}” indicates where p. 69 of the printed version ends and p. 70 begins. These indications will be useful to readers who need to look up references made elsewhere to the printed version of this book.] On the cover of this book is an image of… Read more

Introduction. 1. Language and the Female in Early Greek Thought

1. Language and the Female in Early Greek Thought [1] I. The Speech of the Muses At the start of the Theogony, Hesiod describes his poetic initiation. As he was tending his lambs under Mt. Helicon, the Muses “taught him beautiful singing” (καλὴν ἐδίδαξαν ἀοιδήν, Theogony 22), when to him for the first time they made this pronouncement: ποιμένες ἄγραυλοι, κάκ’… Read more

Part III. “Politics” Doesn’t Fall from the Sky. 2. The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities

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