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The League of the Aitolians
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John D. Grainger
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English
Published/Copyright:
1999
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The Aitolians have had a bad press, regarded as pirates and brigands, and their state as a pirate state built on terrorist tactics. This book treats them as what they really were, a normal Hellenistic state. They constructed an original and successful polity which provided peace and prosperity for its inhabitants, and played a major part in Greek history for a century and a half.
The approach is chronological, beginning with the origin and formation of the league and its early expansion, and then dealing with its long duel with Macedon, and concluding with its destruction by Rome.
This is the first full account of the history of the league which approaches it as an independent state rather than as the enemy of other states and peoples. It complements the standard histories of the other Hellenistic states.
The approach is chronological, beginning with the origin and formation of the league and its early expansion, and then dealing with its long duel with Macedon, and concluding with its destruction by Rome.
This is the first full account of the history of the league which approaches it as an independent state rather than as the enemy of other states and peoples. It complements the standard histories of the other Hellenistic states.
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John D. Grainger, Ph.D. (1987), in Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, has published on Hellenistic history, including A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer (Brill, 1997).
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'...the first major study of that association...This work becomes the standard study of the Aitolians for a long time to come.'
J.M. Balcer, Choice, 2000.
This book has been selected as CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Title for 2000.
J.M. Balcer, Choice, 2000.
This book has been selected as CHOICE's Outstanding Academic Title for 2000.
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eBook published on:
July 17, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789004351219
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Main content:
590
eBook ISBN:
9789004351219
Audience(s) for this book
Classicists, ancient historians, students of both Greece and Rome.
