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In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In the first book in fifty years to tackle the rise of these so-called Greek federal states, Emily Mackil charts a complex, fascinating map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic interactions faciliated political cooperation and the emergence of a new kind of state. Mackil provides a detailed historical narr

In the ancient Greece of Pericles and Plato, the polis, or city-state, reigned supreme, but by the time of Alexander, nearly half of the mainland Greek city-states had surrendered part of their autonomy to join the larger political entities called koina. In a study that tackles the rise of these so-called Greek federal states, the author charts a complex map of how shared religious practices and long-standing economic interactions facilitated political cooperation and the emergence of a new kind of state.

Introduction / Emily Mackil and Nikolaos Papazarkadas -- No introduction needed : Sara Bavousett Aleshire / Ronald S. Stroud -- Greek religion and epigraphic corpora : what's Sacrae about Leges sacrae? / Laura Gawlinski -- Two studies on the epigraphy of Greek sacrificial butchery / Jan-Mathieu Carbon -- IG I3 250, the Eleusinian cults and Zeus Herkeios / Kazuhiro Takeuchi -- Notes on the decree on the sacred Orgas (IG II3 1.292) / Angelos P. Matthaiou -- On the conveyance of the sacred objects for the Eleusinian mysteries : an archaising Athenian assembly decree of the third century AD / Stephen Lambert -- An inventory list and a votive relief from the Sanctuary of Artemis Brauronia found in Oropos / Yannis Kalliontzis -- A prosopography of Athenian cult personnel during the Principate : preliminary considerations / Francesco Camia -- Victorious athletes of ancient Messene : old and new epigraphic evidence / Andronike Makres -- Divine utterances : answers on the new oracular tablets from Dodona / Elena Martín González -- Dedications from the dead? The strange case of Hermes Chthonios / Maria Mili and Jenny Wallensten -- Koan good judgemanship : working for the gods in IG XII.4.1 132 / Adele C. Scafuro -- The Chian sacred law of Parparia revisited / Georgia E. Malouchou -- The self-definition of Alexander the Great / F.S. Naiden -- Tantalus and hemorrhage : an inscribed Hematite gem and its tradition / Michael Zellmann-Rohrer.