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Aitolian Prosopographical Studies
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John D. Grainger
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English
Published/Copyright:
2000
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This aim of this work is to provide part of the basis for the study of a widely misunderstood people of Ancient Greece, the Aitolians. It is the people of any society who are its constituents, and only when we know who they were and what they did can that society be properly investigated.
By accumulating a list of all known Aitolians, their origins, parentage, their place in the society, and any other details discoverable, it is possible to reconstitute Aitolian families, and to study various sections and aspects of their society.
The prosopography and the studies based on it form part of the essential background for the author's history of The League of the Aitolians (published by Brill earlier in 1999), and they also form a contribution to the study of the society which was Ancient Greece.
By accumulating a list of all known Aitolians, their origins, parentage, their place in the society, and any other details discoverable, it is possible to reconstitute Aitolian families, and to study various sections and aspects of their society.
The prosopography and the studies based on it form part of the essential background for the author's history of The League of the Aitolians (published by Brill earlier in 1999), and they also form a contribution to the study of the society which was Ancient Greece.
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John D. Grainger, Ph.D. (1987), in Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, is the author of articles and books on Hellenistic and other aspects of history, including A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer (Brill, 1997) and The League of the Aitolians (Brill, 1999).
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eBook published on:
July 17, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004351189
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Main content:
340
eBook ISBN:
9789004351189
Audience(s) for this book
Classicists and ancient historians.
