New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese

Manolis Pagkalos is Associate Professor in the Humanities at Zhejiang A&F University, China. Andrea Scarpato is Research Development Officer at De Montfort University, UK.

List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
A Short Note on Names and Abbreviations
General Map
Preface: Towards New Perspectives on the Hellenistic Peloponnese


Introduction: Inventing the Hellenistic Peloponnese (Daniel R. Stewart, University of Leicester, UK)


Part I. Sparta's Internal and External Relations
1. A De Facto King: Kleonymos (Andrea Scarpato, De Montfort University, UK)
2. Hellenistic Perioikoi: From the Perioikic Poleis to the Koinon of the Lakedaimonians (Roumpini-Ioanna Charami, University of Nottingham, UK)
3. Hellenistic Generals? Spartan Military Leaders Abroad (Charlotte van Regenmortel, University of Liverpool, UK)


Part II. Structures and Narratives of Power

4. Spartan Plans for the Peloponnese in the Third Century BCE (Krzysztof Zimny, University of Warsaw, Poland)
5. The Ends Justify the Means: Unpacking Polybios' Construction of the Mantineian Genocide (Richard J. G. Evans, University of Leicester, UK)
6. The Histories of the Achaian Koinon: Constructing Identities in the Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (Manolis E. Pagkalos, Zhejiang A&F University, PRC)
7. Garrisons and ‘Tyrants’: Notes on the Antigonid Peloponnese (295-196 BCE) (Charalampos I. Chrysafis, University of Augsburg, Germany)


Part III. Archaeology and Local Perspectives
8. 'No Figures Warranted Absolutely Accurate': The Final Phases of the Lead Votives at the Sanctuary of Orthia (James T. Lloyd-Jones, University of Reading, UK)
9. The Gens Magna of Epidaurus from the 2nd Century BCE to the 1st Century CE (David Weidgenannt, University of Vienna, Austria)
10. Society and Culture in Hellenistic Patras: A View from the Tombs (Tamara M. Dijkstra, University of Groningen, the Netherlands)
11. Making Change: Civic Coinages of the Early Hellenistic Peloponnese (Stelios Damigos, KIKPE Numismatic Collection, Greece)

The Present in the Past: By Way of Afterword (D. Graham J. Shipley, University of Leicester, UK)
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