A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean by McInerney Jeremy

Author:McInerney, Jeremy
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781444337341
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 2014-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

Further Reading

Beck, Hans. 2003. “New Approaches to Federalism in Ancient Greece: Perceptions and Perspectives.” In Kostas Buraselis and Kleanthis Zoumboulakis, eds., The Idea of European Community in History II. Aspects of Connecting Poleis and Ethne in Ancient Greece, 177–90. Athens: National and Capodistrian University of Athens. Argues that the new view of ancient ethnicity as socially constructed and instrumentalist lays a new path for thinking about the foundations of Greek federal states.

Hall, Jonathan M. 1997. Ethnic Identity in Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Brought the instrumentalist view of ethnicity developed by anthropologists to the world of ancient Greece and, in so doing, established new parameters for discussions of ethnicity in the ancient world.

Kowalzig, Barbara. 2007. Singing for the Gods: Performances of Myth and Ritual in Archaic and Classical Greece. Oxford: Oxford University Press. An innovative analysis of myth–ritual performance and its relationship to political claims, with treatments of the Boeotians and Achaeans that are highly relevant to the concerns of this chapter.

Larsen, Jakob A. O. 1968. Greek Federal States: Their Institutions and History. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Although outdated in many ways, and embracing a strongly primordialist view of ethnicity, this book remains a useful reference and starting point for the study of the Greek koinon.

Mackil, Emily. 2013. Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon. Berkeley: University of California Press. A detailed analysis of the origins and development of the koinon in Boeotia, Achaea, and Aetolia that emphasizes the cohesive effects of religious ritual and economic interdependence and argues for a sharp distinction between the koinon as a state and the ethnos as an ethnic group.

McInerney, Jeremy. 1999. The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis. Austin: University of Texas Press. A clear account of the oppositional ethnogenesis of the Phocians and its importance for the emergence of a Phocian koinon.

McInerney, Jeremy. 2013. “Polis and Koinon: Federal Government in Greece.” In Hans Beck, ed., A Companion to Greek Government, 466–479. Oxford: Blackwell. A recent overview of Greek federal states through the lens of network theory.

Morgan, Catherine. 2003. Early Greek States beyond the Polis. London: Routledge. A challenging but highly important book that explores the archaeological evidence for the formation and organization of regional communities in Iron Age and early Archaic Greece and shows that impressions of primordial unity are typically the result of late and politically motivated claims.

Parker, Robert. 1998. Cleomenes on the Acropolis. An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford on 12 May 1997. Oxford: Clarendon Press. A thoughtful, wide-ranging, and provocative exploration of the role played by religion in the formation and articulation of group identities, with a valuable appendix that collects the evidence for ethnos-based cults in the Greek world.

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