New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese

History, Politics and Material Culture

Manolis Pagkalos, Andrea Scarpato

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350228931
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Greek Ancient History
• Index: History

This volume fills a gap in current research on the Hellenistic Peloponnese, complementing and challenging traditional interpretations by adopting new perspectives on its complex social and political history. The resurgence of interest in the Hellenistic period brings the Peloponnese to the front in response to emerging trends in research. By examining aspects of the region's interstate relations, contemporary politics, and modes of representation, this volume explores current research on the region, creating a much more well-rounded picture of the Hellenistic Peloponnese and a rich basis for invigorating scholarly debate and inspiring further research.

The chapters adopt interdisciplinary approaches, analysing a wide array of ancient evidence and material culture. As a result, the volume offers a renewed understanding of how socio-political transformations unfolded within the region. The contributors illuminate critical agents of the period, their interactions, material evidence, and political history both in and beyond the Peloponnese: from the Macedonian influence over the region since the 3rd century BCE and the rise of the Achaian Koinon to strategies of identity construction and memory politics wielded by local elites, and their manifestation in the material evidence. This volume will be a crucial reference point for graduate students and scholars interested in the region.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• A Short Note on Names and Abbreviations
• Preface: Towards New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese
• Introduction: Inventing the Hellenistic Peloponnese
• Part I: Sparta’s Internal and External Relations
• 1 A De Facto King: Kleonymos
• 2 Hellenistic Perioikoi: From the Perioikic Poleis to the Koinon of the Lakedaimonians
• 3 Hellenistic Generals? Spartan Military Leaders Abroad
• Part II: Structures and Narratives of Power
• 4 Spartan Plans for the Peloponnese in the Third Century bce
• 5 The Ends Justify the Means: Unpacking Polybios’ Construction of the Mantineian Genocide
• 6 The Histories of the Achaian Koinon: Constructing Identities in the Early Hellenistic Peloponnese
• 7 Garrisons and ‘Tyrants’: Notes on the Antigonid Peloponnese (295–196 bce)
• Part III: Archaeology and Local Perspectives
• 8 ‘No Figures Warranted Absolutely Accurate’: The Final Phases of the Lead Votives at the Sanctuary of Orthia
• 9 Ὑπόμνημα τῆς οἰκειότητος: The Gens Magna of Epidauros from the Second Century bce to the First Century ce
• 10 Society and Culture in Hellenistic Patras: A View from the Tombs
• 11 Making Change: Civic Coinages of the Early Hellenistic Peloponnese
• The Present in the Past: By Way of Afterword
• Bibliography
• Index Locorum
• Index Nominum Et Verborum
• Copyright