The league of the Aitolians / / by John D. Grainger.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 200
• Author: Grainger, John D., 1939-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999.
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 200.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 585 pages) :; maps.

The Aitolians have had a bad press, regarded as pirates and brigands, and their state as a pirate state built on terrorist tactics. This book treats them as what they really were, a normal Hellenistic state. They constructed an original and successful polity which provided peace and prosperity for its inhabitants, and played a major part in Greek history for a century and a half. The approach is chronological, beginning with the origin and formation of the league and its early expansion, and then dealing with its long duel with Macedon, and concluding with its destruction by Rome. This is the first full account of the history of the league which approaches it as an independent state rather than as the enemy of other states and peoples. It complements the standard histories of the other Hellenistic states.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- A Pirate State? -- The Beginning of The League (Before 335) -- Survival (330-300) -- Expansion: The First Phase (300-278) -- Expansion: The Second Phase (278-260) -- A Generation of Peace (270-245) -- The Challenge from Achaia (245-238) -- Introduction -- The Constitution -- Aitolian Wealth -- The Armed Forces -- The First Macedonian War (The War of Demetrios) (238-228) -- The Second Macedonian War (The Social/Symmachic War) 1. The Causes (228-220) -- The Second Macedonian War (The Social/Symmachic War) 2. The Fighting (220-217) -- The Third Macedonian War 1. The Causes (217-211) -- The Third Macedonian War 2. The Fighting (211-206) -- The Social Problem, and the Causes of the Fourth Macedonian War (206-199) -- The Fourth Macedonian War (199-197) -- The Break With Rome (197-192) -- The Roman War 1. the Seleukid Alliance (192-191) -- The Roman War 2. Aitolia Alone (191-189) -- The Roman Client ( 189-167) -- Roman Subject: The End of The League (From 167) -- The Achievements of the League -- Magistrates of the Aitolian League -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Index -- Supplements to Mnemosyne.