New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese: History, Politics and Material Culture

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CONTENTS
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CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A SHORT NOTE ON NAMES AND ABBREVIATIONS
PREFACE: TOWARDS NEW PERSPECTIVES ON THE HELLENISTIC PELOPONNESE
	From the Hellenistic period to the region of the Peloponnese
	New perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese: a synopsis
	Notes
INTRODUCTION: INVENTING THE HELLENISTIC PELOPONNESE
	Introduction
	Invention
	Itinerant manuscripts
	An Olympian effort
	In defence of invention
	Notes
PART I: SPARTA’S INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS
	CHAPTER 1 A DE FACTO KING: KLEONYMOS
		Introduction
		The evidence
		Kleonymos in Southern Italy
		Kleonymos in Crete
		Kleonymos in Boiotia
		Kleonymos in the Peloponnese: Messenia and Argolis
		Conclusion
		Notes
	CHAPTER 2 HELLENISTIC PERIOIKOI: FROM THE PERIOIKIC POLEIS TO THE KOINON OF THE LAKEDAIMONIANS
		Introduction
		Defining the perioikoi: space and time
		Perioikic status, Lakedaimonian entity and identity
		The perioikoi: a view from archaeology and epigraphy
		Some conclusions on the Hellenistic perioikoi
		Notes
	CHAPTER 3 HELLENISTIC GENERALS? SPARTAN MILITARY LEADERS ABROAD
		Spartan service abroad: mercenary alliances?
		Agesilaos in Egypt: income beyond spoils
		Akrotatos in Sicily: traditional duties and personal ambitions
		Kleonymos in Magna Graecia: a failed basileus
		Towards a Hellenistic Sparta?
		Notes
PART II: STRUCTURES AND NARRATIVES OF POWER
	CHAPTER 4 SPARTAN PLANS FOR THE PELOPONNESE IN THE THIRD CENTURY BCE
		Introduction
		Hellenistic Sparta: on Peloponnesian leadership
		An expansionist agenda: the Spartans as hegemons (again)
		Looking south: Spartan kings and Crete
		Some conclusions: reassessing Spartan agency
		Notes
	CHAPTER 5 THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS: UNPACKING POLYBIOS’ CONSTRUCTION OF THE MANTINEIAN GENOCIDE
		Introduction
		Polybios’ Achaian prokataskeuē
		Constructing Mantinean membership and Achaian benevolence
		Polybios, Phylarchos and Mantineia: genocide apologetics
		Some remarks: Polybios’ rhetoric and nationalism
		Notes
	CHAPTER 6 THE HISTORIES OF THE ACHAIAN KOINON: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES IN THE EARLY HELLENISTIC PELOPONNESE
		Introduction
		From local to quasi-regional: Achaians and the creation of a regional identity
		From local to regional: the Hellenistic Achaian Koinon
		There and back again: diverse localities in a regional plan
		The agency of the elite: from local towards the Oikoumene
		Notes
	CHAPTER 7 GARRISONS AND ‘TYRANTS’: NOTES ON THE ANTIGONID PELOPONNESE (295-196 BCE)
		Introduction
		An Antigonid century (295–196): a brief outline of the Macedonian rule during the third century
		The allies of the Macedonian king in the Peloponnese and the nature of their regimes
		Some conclusions
		Notes
PART III: ARCHAEOLOGY AND LOCAL PERSPECTIVES
	CHAPTER 8 ‘NO FIGURES WARRANTED ABSOLUTELY ACCURATE’: THE FINAL PHASES OF THE LEAD VOTIVES AT THE SANCTUARY OF ORTHIA
		Introduction
		The Spartan lead votive figurines
		Problems with Wace’s study of the lead votives
		The perennial question: were the Spartan lead votives produced into the third century BCE ?
		Notes
	CHAPTER 9 ὙΠΌΜΝΗΜΑ ΤΗΣ ΟἸΚΕΙΌΤΗΤΟΣ: THE GENS MAGNA OF EPIDAUROS FROM THE SECOND CENTURY BCE TO THE FIRST CENTURY CE
		Introduction
		The Gens Magna : notes from epigraphy
		Conclusion
		Notes
	CHAPTER 10 SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN HELLENISTIC PATRAS: A VIEW FROM THE TOMBS
		Patras in the Hellenistic period
		A mortuary approach to society and culture
		Burial location
		Grave typology and mode of disposal
		Marking the burial site
		Burial assemblages
		The emergence of a stratified society
		Notes
	CHAPTER 11 MAKING CHANGE: CIVIC COINAGES OF THE EARLY HELLENISTIC PELOPONNESE
		Introduction
		From the late Classical to the early Hellenistic period
		Elements of Macedonian influence in the coinages of the Hellenistic Peloponnese
		Korinthos and Sikyon
		Argos
		Messene
		Sparta
		The (early) Achaian Koinon
		Civic coinage and the refocus of local economies
		Conclusions
		Notes
	THE PRESENT IN THE PAST: BY WAYOF AFTERWORD
		Place and space
		Regions – Why?
		Always, and never, the same
		Rules of engagement
		Futures
		Notes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX LOCORUM
INDEX NOMINUM ET VERBORUM