Localism in Hellenistic Greece

Sheila L. Ager is a professor of ancient history and Dean of Arts at the University of Waterloo.Hans Beck is a professor and chair of Greek history at Münster University and adjunct professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University.

• Preface  Sheila L. Ager and Hans Beck 1. Introduction: Localism in Hellenistic GreeceHans Beck2. Localism and Environmental History in the Hellenistic Kopaic BasinRuben Post3. Healing a Battlefield: The Local World of Hellenistic ChaironeiaChandra Giroux4. The Other Side of the Stone: Local Proxenia in the Hellenistic Euboian GulfAlex McAuley5. Notes on Matrimonial Strategies in Civic Contexts Sara Saba6. Local Horizons for the Thessalian EleutheriaDenver Graninger7. The Problematic Localism of the Hellenistic AitoliansJoseph B. Scholten8. Aligning the Dots: Local Self-Assertion in a Politically Expanding WorldPeter Funke9. The Local Voice of Enmity: Kleomenes III, Sparta, and ArgosElena Franchi10. "Sparta is my country": Competitive Localism in Hellenistic SpartaSebastian Scharff 11. Shaping and Reshaping Local Memories in Megalopolis: The Case of the Tyrants Aristodamos and LydiadasJames Roy12. Global Activities in a Localized Context: Mercenaries, Proxeny, and the Small Local World of Hellenistic ManiChelsea A.M. Gardner13. Being Syracusan in the Hellenistic WorldMark Thatcher14. Between the Local and the Global: Intersectional Elites at Antiochia ad Cragum in Roman Rough CiliciaTim Howe15. Afterword: Reflections on Hellenistic Localism  Sheila L. AgerList of ContributorsIndex