Ethnos and Koinon

The ethnic turn has led to a paradigm shift in Classics and Ancient History. In Greek history, it toppled the traditional view that the various ethnos states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods drew on a remote pedigree of tribal togetherness. Instead, it appears that those leagues were built on essentially changing, flexible, and relatively late constructions of regional identities that took shape most often only in the Archaic period.

The implications are far-reaching. They impact the conception of an ethnos' political organization; and they spill over into the study of external relations. It has been posited that in their conduct of foreign policy, ethne often resorted to a federal program. Did ethne emulate each other, and did they inspire others to adopt a federal organization? More recently, it was argued that their foreign policy was charged with ethnicized attitudes. Did the idea of ethnic togetherness generally influence foreign policy? And, did everyone subscribe to the same blueprint of ethnicized arguments?

The contributions to this volume explore the lived and often contradictory experience between tribal belonging and political integration.

Auteur
Hans Beck is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Münster and Adjunct Professor in Classical Studies at McGill University Montreal. His research focuses on the local horizon of ancient Greece and its interplay with the grand currents of cultural patterns and practices. He has been awarded the Anneliese Maier Prize of the Humboldt Foundation and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Kostas Buraselis is Professor of Ancient History and Vice Principal of Academic Affairs and International Relations at the University of Athens, Greece. His main scholarly interests are the political and institutional history of the Hellenistic world and the Roman imperial period in the Greek East, ancient ruler cult, and modern historiography on the ancient world. Alex McAuley in Lecturer in Hellenistic History at Cardiff University, Wales. In addition to his work on Greek federalism and political culture, he has also published on the cities of the Greek mainland as well as the ideology and political practice of the Hellenistic dynasties.

Résumé
",...this collection of articles a rewardging read that challenge our way of looking at the interconnection between the internal mechanics of the koinonand ist external foreign policy." Roy van Wijk Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.11.11 20191108