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Record Nr.

UNINA9910157822103321

Autore

Mack William Joseph Behm Garner

Titolo

Proxeny and polis : institutional networks in the ancient Greek world

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2015

ISBN

0-19-178979-8

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 410 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white)

Collana

Oxford studies in ancient documents

Classificazione

15.51

Disciplina

327.38

Soggetti

Greece

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

Greece Foreign relations To 146 B.C

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Anatomy of an ancient institution -- Proxeny in its political contexts -- Proxeny networks -- Proxeny and the performance of Polis identity -- The disappearance of proxeny and the domination of Rome.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume presents a new reconstruction of proxeny, based on a detailed analysis of the function of the formulaic language of honorific decrees, and explores the way in which interstate institutions shaped the behaviour of individuals and communities in the ancient world. It draws on other material which has not been systematically exploited before to reconstruct the proxeny networks of Greek city states. The book also traces the disappearance of both proxeny and the broader institutional system of which it was part.