Mackil - Creating a common polity: religion, economy, and politics in the making of the Greek koinon

In Honor of beloved Virgil

O degli altri poeti onore e lume...

Dante, Inferno

The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Classical Literature Endowment Fund of the University of California Press Foundation, which was established by a major gift from Joan Palevsky.

The publisher also thanks the following for generous contributions to this book:

The Loeb Classical Library Foundation

The Committee on Research, University of California, Berkeley

The Abigail Reynolds Hodgen Publication Fund in the Social Sciences at University of California, Berkeley

Creating A Common Polity

HELLENISTIC CULTURE AND SOCIETY

General Editors: Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A.A. Long, and Andrew F. Stewart

1. Alexander to Actium: The Historical Evolution of the Hellenistic Age, by Peter Green

2. Hellenism in the East: The Interaction of Greek and Non-Greek Civilizations from Syria to Central Asia after Alexander , edited by Amlie Kuhrt and Susan Sherwin-White

3. The Question of Eclecticism: Studies in Later Greek Philosophy, edited by J.M. Dillon and A.A. Long

4. Antigonos the One-Eyed and the Creation of the Hellenistic State, by Richard A. Billows

5. A History of Macedonia, by R. Malcolm Errington, translated by Catherine Errington

6. Attic Letter-Cutters of to 86 B.C. , by Stephen V. Tracy

7. The Vanished Library: A Wonder of the Ancient World, by Luciano Canfora

8. Hellenistic Philosophy of Mind, by Julia E. Annas

9. Hellenistic History and Culture , edited by Peter Green

10. The Best of the Argonauts: The Redefinition of the Epic Hero in Book One of Apolloniuss Argonautica, by James J. Clauss

11. Faces of Power: Alexanders Image and Hellenistic Politics, by Andrew Stewart

12. Images and Ideologies: Self-definition in the Hellenistic World, edited by Anthony W. Bulloch, Erich S. Gruen, A.A. Long, and Andrew Stewart

13. From Samarkhand to Sardis: A New Approach to the Seleucid Empire, by Susan Sherwin-White and Amlie Kuhrt

14. Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos , B.C. , by Gary Reger

15. Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from to B.C . , by Robert Kallet-Marx

16. Moral Vision in The Histories of Polybius, by Arthur M. Eckstein

17. The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, by Getzel M. Cohen

18. Interstate Arbitrations in the Greek World, B.C. , by Sheila L. Ager

19. Theocrituss Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage, by Joan B. Burton

20. Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of to B.C. , by Stephen V. Tracy

21. Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: Legitimizing the Jewish Diaspora, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva

22. Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, by Kent J. Rigsby

23. The Cynics: The Cynic Movement in Antiquity and Its Legacy, edited by R. Bracht Branham and Marie-Odile Goulet-Caz

24. The Politics of Plunder: Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era , B.C. , by Joseph B. Scholten

25. The Argonautika, by Apollonios Rhodios, translated, with introduction, commentary, and glossary, by Peter Green

26. Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography, edited by Paul Cartledge, Peter Garnsey, and Erich S. Gruen

27. Josephuss Interpretation of the Bible, by Louis H. Feldman

28. Poetic Garlands: Hellenistic Epigrams in Context, by Kathryn J. Gutzwiller

29. Religion in Hellenistic Athens, by Jon D. Mikalson

30. Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition, by Erich S. Gruen

31. The Beginnings of Jewishness: Boundaries, Varieties, Uncertainties, by Shaye D. Cohen

32. Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria, by Frank L. Holt

33. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan ( B.C.E. C.E. ), by John M.G. Barclay

34. From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context, edited by Nancy T. de Grummond and Brunilde S. Ridgway

35. Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition, by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes

36. Stoic Studies, by A.A. Long

37. Seeing Double: Intercultural Poetics in Ptolemaic Alexandria, by Susan A. Stephens

38. Athens and Macedon: Attic Letter-Cutters of to B.C. , by Stephen V. Tracy

39. Encomium of Ptolemy Philadelphus, by Theocritus, translated with an introduction and commentary by Richard Hunter

40. The Making of Fornication: Eros, Ethics, and Political Reform in Greek Philosophy and Early Christianity, by Kathy L. Gaca

41. Cultural Politics in Polybiuss Histories, by Craige B. Champion

42. Cleomedes Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens, with an introduction and commentary by Alan C. Bowen and Robert B. Todd

43. Historical Fictions and Hellenistic Jewish Identity: Third Maccabees in Its Cultural Context, by Sara Raup Johnson

44. Alexander the Great and the Mystery of the Elephant Medallions, by Frank L. Holt

45. The Horse and Jockey from Artemision: A Bronze Equestrian Monument of the Hellenistic Period, by Sen Hemingway

46. The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa, by Getzel M. Cohen

47. Into the Land of Bones: Alexander the Great in Afghanistan, by Frank L. Holt

48. Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of Rome, by Arthur M. Eckstein

49. Hellenistic Egypt: Monarchy, Society, Economy, Culture, by Jean Bingen, edited and introduced by Roger S. Bagnall

50. Jewish Perspectives on Hellenistic Rulers, edited by Tessa Rajak, Sarah Pearce, James Aitken, and Jennifer Dines

51. The Image of the Jews in Greek Literature: The Hellenistic Period, by Bezalel Bar-Kochva

52. From Alexander to Jesus, by Ory Amitay

53. The Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan, by Frank L. Holt

54. The Hellenistic Settlements in the East from Armenia and Mesopotamia to Bactria and India, by Getzel M. Cohen

55. Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon, by Emily Mackil

Creating a Common Polity

Religion, Economy, and Politics in the

Making of the Greek Koinon

Emily Mackil

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Mackil, Emily Maureen.

Creating a common polity : religion, economy, and politics in the making of the Greek koinon / Emily Mackil.