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IX. Catherine Morgan, The Archaeology of Ethnê and Ethnicity in the Fourth-Century Peloponnese

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 social action, and behaviour enacted over different social and/or physical… Read more

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VIII. Eric Robinson, Ethnicity and Democracy in the Peloponnese, 401–362 BCE

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 won, but only after they armed the dêmos and gained the aid of Mantineans who… Read more

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VII. Nino Luraghi, Messenian Ethnicity and the Free Messenians

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 Peloponnese. Although both its extension and its internal structure varied in the… Read more

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V. Maurizio Giangiulio, The Emergence of Pisatis

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 of control of the Olympic Games. Many would have shared the opinion expressed by Georg… Read more

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IV. Claudia Ruggeri, Triphylia from Elis to Arcadia

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

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III. James Roy, Elis

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

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I. Peter Funke, Between Mantinea and Leuctra: The Political World of the Peloponnese in a Time of Upheaval

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

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Abbreviations

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