Elis

Graeme Bourke is a Senior Lecturer at the University of New England, Australia.

"Scholarly work on the Peloponnesian city-state of Elis has made significant progress in the last two decades or so, and an English introduction to this important subject has been a real desideratum for long. Graeme Bourke now provides this much-needed introduction, discussing among other things such topics as the political history – including the synoecism – of Elis, its administration of the great sanctuary at Olympia and its relations with foreign powers, Sparta in particular, in a clear and accessible style. Students of ancient Greek history, Classics, Greek archaeology and Greek religion will find much to interest them in this wide-ranging monograph."- Thomas Heine Nielsen, The Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark"Bourke’s study usefully surveys the landmarks of Eleian history. Those readers who lamented the absence of a monograph on Elis in an earlier tradition of epichoric synthesis will find this treatment repairs the gap."- Ben Brown, University of Sydney, Australia, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019"The book is well produced and clearly written ... Bourke is successful in bringing together relevant international secondary literature and making it accessible to an English-speaking readership, and some of his most challenging conclusions (most notably his hypothesis about the Omphalionids) will certainly spur scholarly debate. For these reasons, the book will be beneficial to any scholars interested in the history of Elea and the Peloponnese."- Matteo Barbato, University of Edinburgh, UK, Classical Review 2018"Bourke provides a number of insights ... A must purchase for research libraries."- J.L. Miller, SUNY College at New Paltz, USA, CHOICE Reviews 2019

• IntroductionCh. 1 The Land and its PeopleCh. 2 Communities and SanctuariesCh. 3 The Question of PisaCh. 4 Archaic Political EventsCh. 5 Synoikism and DemocracyCh. 6 External Relations in the Archaic and Early Classical PeriodsCh. 7 Between the Arkhidamian and Dekeleian WarsCh. 8 The Eleian WarCh. 9 The Early Fourth Century BC Ch. 10 The Middle Fourth Century BCCh. 11 A New Context, 338-222 BCCh. 12 Resistance and Subjection, 221-146 BCConclusion