William Mack
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3605791 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William Mack |
| PRENOMES | William |
| SOBRENOME | Mack |
| ASSINATURA | MACK W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Where Are the Proxenoi?' Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis
The aim of this article is to establish a new basis for exploring the network of ancient Greek city-states during the Classical and Hellenistic periods by applying Social Network Analysis to the record of inscriptions recording grants of proxeny. Proxeny was a generalized institution for facilitating interactions between Greek political communities. Because it left a rich and idiosyncratic record in the form of thousands of honorific inscriptions…
Greek Slave Systems in their Mediterranean Context, c. 800–146 BC, by David M. Lewis
Vox Populi, Vox Deorum? Athenian Document Reliefs and the Theologies of Public Inscription
This article argues that, by concentrating on a reading of the depictions of deities on the Athenian document reliefs as symbolic representations of states rather than as divinities, previous scholarly approaches to them have failed to explore the role they ascribe to the gods in collective decision-making and the exercise of public authority. This article resituates the interpretation of these monuments in the context of other monuments depictin…
The Anatomy of an Ancient Institution
This chapter develops a new model for understanding proxenia as an institution, as based on a shared paradigm of proxenos behaviour. It argues that the characteristic features of this paradigm were communicated in the stereotypical, formulaic language used to describe individuals named proxenoi. These defined the proxenos as a non-citizen friend of the polis in an external community who had proved his affection for it over a prolonged period by p…
Conclusion
This book is intended to be both a study of the ancient Greek institution of proxenia and a contribution to the study of institutional history and theory more broadly. Having traced the decline and disappearance of proxenia in the last chapter, here, at the end of the book, it may be helpful to revisit some of its central arguments and themes. In this book, I tried to develop a new model for understanding how proxenia was invested with meaning, a…
Proxeny in its Political Contexts
This chapter explores how the abstract proxenos-paradigm, identified in the first chapter, functioned in practice. It draws on the literary and epigraphic material to understand what motivated individuals to perform the functions associated with proxenia. It proceeds by examining how proxeny worked within a range of different political contexts: within the poleis in which proxeny grants were proposed; within the political communities of those nam…
Proxeny and the Performance of Polis Identity
This chapter explores the symbolic aspect of proxenia in Greek interstate relations. It uses this institution as a case study to explore the functions performed by the wider system of inter-polis institutions, including asylia, syngeneia, and theōria. It builds on recent work applying the concept of peer-polity interaction to Greek institutional interrelations, and modern scholarship on Interstate Relations to argue that so much effort was invest…
Proxeny and Polis
This book offers an re-examination of our evidence for this important Greek institution and uses it to examine the structure and dynamics of the interstate system of the Greek world and the way in which these were transformed under the Roman Empire. This book presents a new reconstruction of proxeny, based on a detailed analysis of the function of the formulaic language of honorific decrees, and explores the way in which interstate institutions s…
Communal Interests and Polis Identity under Negotiation
Communal Interests and PolIs IdentIty under negotIatIon : documents depicting sympolities between Cities great and small *In very few epigraphical contexts are distinctions drawn between cities great and small.In most cases, unsurprisingly given the function which epigraphic monuments tended to perform, they purposefully elide the difference between poleis.Our epigraphic record depicts cities forging treaties, sending, receiving, and responding t…
Archias of Corinth
The traditional founder of Syracuse, Archias (active in the latter half of the eighth century BCE ), son of Euagetes, was remembered as a prominent individual in his native polis of Corinth, where he probably belonged to the ruling Bacchiad family.
Amphidamas
King of Chalcis at whose funeral games, given by his sons, Hesiod won a tripod, perhaps with the Theogony (Hes. Op . 654–7).
Alkaios of Mytilene
Lyric poet, the traditional contemporary of Sappho, Alkaios (active ca. 600 BCE ) was born into a politically involved aristocratic family of Mytilene on Lesbos at a time when power there was hotly contested between rival cliques following the overthrow of the ruling clan, the Penthelidai (Arist. Pol . 1311b26, 29).
Proxeny and Polis
This book offers an re-examination of our evidence for this important Greek institution and uses it to examine the structure and dynamics of the interstate system of the Greek world and the way in which these were transformed under the Roman Empire. This book presents a new reconstruction of proxeny, based on a detailed analysis of the function of the formulaic language of honorific decrees, and explores the way in which interstate institutions s…
Vox Populi, Vox Deorum? Athenian Document Reliefs and the Theologies of Public Inscription
This article argues that, by concentrating on a reading of the depictions of deities on the Athenian document reliefs as symbolic representations of states rather than as divinities, previous scholarly approaches to them have failed to explore the role they ascribe to the gods in collective decision-making and the exercise of public authority. This article resituates the interpretation of these monuments in the context of other monuments depictin…
Where Are the Proxenoi?' Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis
The aim of this article is to establish a new basis for exploring the network of ancient Greek city-states during the Classical and Hellenistic periods by applying Social Network Analysis to the record of inscriptions recording grants of proxeny. Proxeny was a generalized institution for facilitating interactions between Greek political communities. Because it left a rich and idiosyncratic record in the form of thousands of honorific inscriptions…
Archias of Corinth
The traditional founder of Syracuse, Archias (active in the latter half of the eighth century BCE ), son of Euagetes, was remembered as a prominent individual in his native polis of Corinth, where he probably belonged to the ruling Bacchiad family.
Amphidamas
King of Chalcis at whose funeral games, given by his sons, Hesiod won a tripod, perhaps with the Theogony (Hes. Op . 654–7).
Alkaios of Mytilene
Lyric poet, the traditional contemporary of Sappho, Alkaios (active ca. 600 BCE ) was born into a politically involved aristocratic family of Mytilene on Lesbos at a time when power there was hotly contested between rival cliques following the overthrow of the ruling clan, the Penthelidai (Arist. Pol . 1311b26, 29).
Communal Interests and Polis Identity under Negotiation
Communal Interests and PolIs IdentIty under negotIatIon : documents depicting sympolities between Cities great and small *In very few epigraphical contexts are distinctions drawn between cities great and small.In most cases, unsurprisingly given the function which epigraphic monuments tended to perform, they purposefully elide the difference between poleis.Our epigraphic record depicts cities forging treaties, sending, receiving, and responding t…
The Anatomy of an Ancient Institution
This chapter develops a new model for understanding proxenia as an institution, as based on a shared paradigm of proxenos behaviour. It argues that the characteristic features of this paradigm were communicated in the stereotypical, formulaic language used to describe individuals named proxenoi. These defined the proxenos as a non-citizen friend of the polis in an external community who had proved his affection for it over a prolonged period by p…
Conclusion
This book is intended to be both a study of the ancient Greek institution of proxenia and a contribution to the study of institutional history and theory more broadly. Having traced the decline and disappearance of proxenia in the last chapter, here, at the end of the book, it may be helpful to revisit some of its central arguments and themes. In this book, I tried to develop a new model for understanding how proxenia was invested with meaning, a…
Proxeny in its Political Contexts
This chapter explores how the abstract proxenos-paradigm, identified in the first chapter, functioned in practice. It draws on the literary and epigraphic material to understand what motivated individuals to perform the functions associated with proxenia. It proceeds by examining how proxeny worked within a range of different political contexts: within the poleis in which proxeny grants were proposed; within the political communities of those nam…
Proxeny and the Performance of Polis Identity
This chapter explores the symbolic aspect of proxenia in Greek interstate relations. It uses this institution as a case study to explore the functions performed by the wider system of inter-polis institutions, including asylia, syngeneia, and theōria. It builds on recent work applying the concept of peer-polity interaction to Greek institutional interrelations, and modern scholarship on Interstate Relations to argue that so much effort was invest…
Proxeny and Polis
This book offers an re-examination of our evidence for this important Greek institution and uses it to examine the structure and dynamics of the interstate system of the Greek world and the way in which these were transformed under the Roman Empire. This book presents a new reconstruction of proxeny, based on a detailed analysis of the function of the formulaic language of honorific decrees, and explores the way in which interstate institutions s…
Vox Populi, Vox Deorum? Athenian Document Reliefs and the Theologies of Public Inscription
This article argues that, by concentrating on a reading of the depictions of deities on the Athenian document reliefs as symbolic representations of states rather than as divinities, previous scholarly approaches to them have failed to explore the role they ascribe to the gods in collective decision-making and the exercise of public authority. This article resituates the interpretation of these monuments in the context of other monuments depictin…
Greek Slave Systems in their Mediterranean Context, c. 800–146 BC, by David M. Lewis
Where Are the Proxenoi?' Social Network Analysis, Connectivity and the Greek Poleis
The aim of this article is to establish a new basis for exploring the network of ancient Greek city-states during the Classical and Hellenistic periods by applying Social Network Analysis to the record of inscriptions recording grants of proxeny. Proxeny was a generalized institution for facilitating interactions between Greek political communities. Because it left a rich and idiosyncratic record in the form of thousands of honorific inscriptions…
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