Creating a Common Polity

Emily Mackil is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Berkeley.

"Offers a wealth of useful, hardly accessible information and interesting insights into the workings of Greek federal states ... recommended not only to classicists and ancient historians, but also to students of politics." Bryn Mawr Classical Review "A model of what scholarship in ancient history should ideally be: technically impeccable, theoretically bold and imaginative, rigorously argued, and-not least-a pleasure for both experts and novices to read." -- Barbara Weiden Boyd, Chair Society for Classical Studies

• Preface Abbreviations Maps Introduction Strategies Old and New Institutions An Example A Road Map Part I. Cooperation, Competition, and Coercion: A Narrative History 1. The Archaic Period and the Fifth Century Boiotia Achaia Aitolia 2. The Fourth Century Common Wars, Common Peaces, Common Polities, 404--371 Theban Hegemony and the Hegemony of the Koinon, 371--346 A New Macedonian Order, 346--323 3. The Hellenistic Period Mainland Greece and the Wars of the Successors, 323--285 Independence and Expansion, 284--245 Shifting Alliances, 245--229 The Roman Entrance and the War against Kleomenes, 229--222 The Rise of Philip V and the Social War, 221--217 The First and Second Macedonian Wars: Rome, Aitolia, and Philip V, 215--196 The Freedom of the Greeks and the Dismantling of Regional Cooperation, 196--167 Bargaining with Rome, the Struggle for Sparta, and the End of the Achaian Koinon, 167--146 Part II. Interactions and Institutions 4. Cultic Communities Building Regional Communities Politicizing Regional Communities Legitimating and Celebrating the Power of the Koinon Reproducing the Power of the Koinon 5. Economic Communities Cooperative Coinage and Early Forms of Economic Cooperation Protecting and Promoting Economic Mobility Resource Complementarity and Economic Interdependence Winning the Battle for Resources Taxation and Regional State Revenues Managing Economic Crises and Disputes 6. Political Communities Coercion and Cooperation in the Formation of the Koinon The Terms of the Federal Compromise Enforcement, Negotiation, and Institutional Stability Conclusion Appendix: Epigraphic Dossier I. Boiotia: T1--T33 II. Achaia: T34--T46 III. Aitolia: T47--T61 Bibliography Index