The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis

by Jeremy McInerney

Book Overview

Independent city-states (poleis) such as Athens have been viewed traditionally as the most advanced stage of state formation in ancient Greece. By contrast, this pioneering book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 029275230X
• ISBN13: 9780292752306
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 407 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"