Synopses & Reviews
The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire, or interpreted as a result of the unexpected annihilation of the Spartan army by the Boeotians at Leuktra. The present book offers a new perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally brought down Sparta was in important ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League, accompanied by a general awakening of ethnicity in various areas of the Peloponnese.
A series of regional case studies is combined with thematic contributions focusing on topics such as the relationship of religious cults and ethnicity and of democracy and ethnicity, the use of archaeological evidence for ethnic phenomena, and comparative approaches based on social anthropology.
Synopsis
The crisis of Spartan power in the first half of the fourth century has been connected to Spartan inability to manage the hegemony built on the ruins of the Athenian Empire. The present book offers a new perspective, suggesting that the crisis that finally brought down Sparta was in important ways a result of centrifugal impulses within the Peloponnesian League.
About the Author
Peter Funkeis Professor of Ancient History at <>Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster.Nino Luraghiis Professor of the <>Classics at Harvard University.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Between Mantinea and Leuctra
Peter Funke - Achaea and the Peloponnese in the Late Fifth–Early Fourth Centuries
Klaus Freitag - Elis
James Roy - Triphylia from Elis to Arcadia
Claudia Ruggeri - The Emergence of Pisatis
Maurizio Giangiulio - Arcadia: Ethnicity and Politics in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BCE
Maria Pretzler - Messenian Ethnicity and the Free Messenians
Nino Luraghi - Ethnicity and Democracy in the Peloponnese, 401-362 BCE
Eric Robinson - The Archaeology of Ethne and Ethnicity in the Fourth-Century Peloponnese
Catherine Morgan - Subjection, Synoecism and Religious Life
Robert Parker - The Development of Greek Ethne and their Ethnicity
Christoph Ulf
- List of Contributors
- Index