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Media type:
E-Book
Title:
The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes
Contains:
Frontmatter
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations of Epigraphic Corpora
Maps
Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Rhodian Democracy
Chapter 3 The Oikos
Chapter 4 Public Associations
Chapter 5 Private Associations
Chapter 6 Private Associations and Human Resources
Chapter 7 The Civic Aspirations of Private Associations
Chapter 8 The Corporate Polis
Bibliography
Index Locorum
General Index
Description:
A new perspective on political organisation in Hellenistic Rhodes and the ancient Greek citystateThe first comprehensive study of Rhodes in more than 20 years and one of the few books dedicated to a single Hellenistic city-stateIntroduces the reader to Hellenistic Rhodes, an important, but also remarkably understudied, city-state of the ancient Greek and Roman world Challenges traditional assumptions about political organisation in the ancient Greek city-stateDocuments the existence of an alternative conception of the ancient Greek city-state, which will inspire new approaches to the study of the ancient Greek city-state, politics and societyChristian Thomsen offers a study of political institutions on the island state of Rhodes – an important power in the eastern Mediterranean and the first city of the Hellenistic world. Using Aristotle’s notion of the polis as an ‘association of associations’ as its point of departure, Thomsen provides an analysis of political institutions, taking a broader view of what constitutes an institution than traditional studies of the ancient Greek city-state. Among the institutions surveyed are the family, civic subdivisions such as tribes and demes as well as private associations. He argues that these organisations served as important junctions in the networks of political elites and shaped the political landscape of Hellenistic Rhodes