The Early Hellenistic Peloponnese: Politics, Economies, and Networks 338-197 BC

by Graham Shipley and D. Graham J. Shipley

Using all available evidence - literary, epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological - this study offers a new analysis of the early Hellenistic Peloponnese. The conventional picture of the Macedonian kings as oppressors, and of the Peloponnese as ruined by warfare and tyranny, must be revised. The kings did not suppress freedom or exploit the peninsula economically, but generally presented themselves as patrons of Greek identity. Most of the regimes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052187369X
• ISBN13: 9780521873697
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.2" x 10.0"