A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean

Ethnos and Koinon 283 Peek, Werner. 1969.Inschriften aus dem Asklepeion von Epidauros. Berlin: Akademie Verlag. Petrakos, Vasile ...

284 Emily Mackil Morgan, Catherine. 2003.Early Greek States beyond the Polis. London: Routledge. A challeng- ing but highly impo ...

CHAPTER 19 Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency Alexander Thein Introduction In 469/8 or 465/4, Sparta was struck by a dev ...

286 Alexander Thein The emergence or at least the expression of Messenian ethnicity in the fifth and fourth centuries was contin ...

Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency 287 the lofty mountains of Ithome” (fr. 5, cf. Diod. 16.66.3, Paus. 4.9–14, with 4.15 ...

288 Alexander Thein however, the contingency of the ethnogenesis of the Peloponnesian Messenians on the Spartan earthquake and A ...

Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency 289 division of the Peloponnese) but outside the territory of Old Messene. Opinions d ...

290 Alexander Thein rebellion, that a Messenian ethnic identity became a requirement. The ethnic claims of the rebels gave legit ...

Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency 291 it is applied to the military forces raised by the former rebels in support of At ...

292 Alexander Thein Messenians are not called colonial settlers, and Naupactus was not renamed Messene (Figueira 1999: 220; cf. ...

Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency 293 subtle equation of the Naupactus Messenians with the helot deserters. The termino ...

294 Alexander Thein loyal Messenians at Pylos in their “ancestral homeland,” but his arguments fell on deaf ears and his plan ca ...

Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency 295 There was unrest among the helots andperioecithroughout theLakonikeafter the batt ...

296 Alexander Thein Hall, Jonathan M. 1997.Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Hall, Jona ...

Messenia, Ethnic Identity, and Contingency 297 Treves, P. 1944. “The Problem of a History of Messenia.”The Journal of Hellenic S ...

CHAPTER 20 Ethnicity and Geography Philip Kaplan Introduction As scholarly attention has focused on the problem of ethnic identi ...

Ethnicity and Geography 299 between people and the land is articulated, in his view, in two fundamental ways: “we may distinguis ...

300 Philip Kaplan and the number of ships they provided. Ethnonyms are sometimes omitted, the Cata- logue using instead the form ...

Ethnicity and Geography 301 from the eponym of the mountain overlooking Lakonia (she herself the daughter of the eponymous Atlas ...

302 Philip Kaplan Mediterranean, he placed peoples north, south, east or west of other peoples, and he even used days’ walking o ...