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The Hellenistic

Interstate Relations. A Narrative and Analytic History, 371-146 BC ISBN: 9781910589601 (hb) by Ioanna Kralli 9781910589656 (pdf)

DESCRIPTION: PRICE: Existing treatments of Peloponnesian history are fragmented by poleis and period. This book offers a $95.00 (hb) comprehensive narrative of the political history of the entire Peloponnese from 371 to 146 BC, using $95.00 (pdf) both literary and epigraphic evidence. In the Hellenistic Peloponnese a long shadow was cast by the geo-political changes of the 4th PUBLICATION DATE: century. Many continuities trace back to the forty years after Leuktra (371-330). Internal divisions 12 July 2017 (hb) and alliances are interwoven with the interventions of external powers: Thebans, Macedonian rulers, 12 July 2017 (pdf) and finally the Romans. The author's findings reveal remarkable consistencies in the history of the Peloponnese. After BINDING: 's long-invincible army was defeated at the battle of Leuktra, there was much in Sparta's Hardback & PDF eBook influence which was far from crushed. Not only did Sparta's confidence persist, as she agitated for centuries to renew her power; other states of the Peloponnese conducted their own foreign policies SIZE: in reaction either to Sparta's decline or, especially, to her resurgence - and to the prospect of further 6 x10 resurgence still. The book reveals continuity as regards Sparta in the foreign policies of , most of Arkadia, , and the Achaian Confederacy. These definite patterns formed Peloponnesian PAGES: history far beyond the narrow relation of each community to Sparta: they also shaped the relation of 550 most major Peloponnesian powers to each other. PUBLISHER: TABLE OF CONTENTS: The Classical Press of From Leuktra to (371-362) In the arms of the Argeads: the beginnings of the Hellenistic Wales period for the Peloponnese, down to 330 The Peloponnesians with Alexander's Diadochoi and without the Spartans (323-280) The Spartans return - Macedon and Sparta bring Peloponnesians IMPRINT: together (280-260s) The emergence and expansion of the Achaian confederacy: the political The Classical Press of unification of the north-eastern and central Peloponnese (251-229) 'The Spartans weren't to be led Wales and ordered around': the Peloponnesian poleis between the Achaian confederacy and Kleomenes III (228-222) The Social War: Philip V bearing gifts to the Achaian Confederacy and reshaping intra- READER INTERESTS: Peloponnesian relations (220-217) The unification of the Peloponnese - and disaster (early 2nd century-146) Aspects of friendly intra-Peloponnesian relations: participation in festivals and awarding of honours

CONTRIBUTORS BIOGRAPHIES: Ioanna Kralli is Assistant Professor at the (, ). In earlier publications, she has studied the political relations of with various kings during the , mainly from epigraphic testimonia; continuity and change in Athenian political and military practices and organization; images of Hellenistic Athens in the historiographic tradition; and the political exploitation of the Panhellenic Games by Hellenistic rulers.