The Politics of Association in Hellenistic Rhodes / / Christian Thomsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Thomsen, Christian,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History : NAAGIH
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 9 B/W illustrations

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.

Table of Contents

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