The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis

Jeremy McInerney

Published by University of Texas Press 2000

The Folds of Parnassos

Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis

Jeremy McInerney

https://doi.org/10.7560/752290

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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. Jeremy McInerney sets his study in Phokis, a region in central Greece dominated by Mount Parnassos that shared a border with the panhellenic sanctuary at Delphi. He explores how ecological conditions, land use, and external factors such as invasion contributed to the formation of a Phokian territory. Then, drawing on numerous interdisciplinary sources, he traces the history of the region from the Archaic age down to the Roman period. McInerney shows how shared myths, hero cults, and military alliances created an ethnic identity that held the region together over centuries, despite repeated invasions. He concludes that the Phokian koinon survived because it was founded ultimately on the tenacity of the smaller communities of Greece.

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Jeremy McInerney is Davidson Kennedy Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
PREFACE Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
ABBREVIATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
CHAPTER 2 RACE, TRIBE, ETHNICITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	8
CHAPTER 3 TOPOGRAPHY AND SETTLEMENT Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	40
CHAPTER 4 SETTLEMENT AND SOCIETY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
CHAPTER 5 HEROES, MYTHS, AND ETHNICITY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	120
CHAPTER 6 PHOKIAN DESPERATION Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
CHAPTER 7 STATE AND SOCIETY Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
CHAPTER 8 THE LICTOR'S AXE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
APPENDIX 1 A GAZETTEER OF PHOKIAN SITES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263
APPENDIX 2 THE GREAT ISTHMUS CORRIDOR Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
APPENDIX 3 THE DATE OF THE FORTIFICATIONS OF PHOKIS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	340
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Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 407

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Published: February 20, 2014
ISBN: 9780292761605