Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean. Fifth to First Centuries BC

confidence for Macedonia prior to thefinal third of the fourth centurybc.
The named locations all come from Lower Macedonia. None are listed
from Upper Macedonia. There may be other, socio-economic, or eco-
logical, as well as political reasons for the implied absence ofpolis-type
agglomerations in Upper Macedonia, at least in the pre-Hellenistic period,
to which I will return. Nevertheless, it is worth bearing in mind that
among the 25 locations listed as‘pre-Hellenistic, not attested aspoleis’,
there are at least half a dozen historically-attested sites in the Upper
Macedonian regions (such as Aiginion, in Tymphaia, Alkomena, Brya-
nion, and Styberra, in Derriopos, Argos Orestikon and Keletron in Orestis,
Euia and Greia in Elymeia or Eordaia), which, according to Hatzopoulos
and Paschidis, whilst they‘did not enjoy the full prerogatives of the cities
of Lower Macedonia, for these were reserved for the territorial units called
ethnein our sources, which included both cities and villages,’can never-
theless be accredited with the higher status in other respects.^35
A complex argument about the nature of royal administration, and of
nested hierarchies of power within the Macedonian kingdom, has been
abbreviated in theInventoryto a couple of paragraphs. In his 1996
monograph on Macedonian institutions under the Argead kings, Hatzo-
poulos developed a systematic rationale for the relationship between the

Region Named settlements

not attested as

poleis

Unidentified sites

(ancient name

unknown)

Named poleis

Macedonia 25 17 (Lower

Macedonia)

Thrace, Axios to Strymon

• Thermaic Gulf area 16+9 8


• Bisaltia 2


• Chalkidic peninsula 65 [+4]
  Thrace, Strymon to Nestos 10 13

(23)

13

Thrace, Nestos to Hebros

Inland Thrace

7811

6 [+39]

Thracian Chersonese 9 15

(189)

Propontic Thrace 14

(90)

29

Total

Fig. 2.2.Table showing comparativefigures of documentedpoleisin the northern

Aegean <unlocatedpoleis>.

(^35) Hatzopoulos and Paschidis 2004, 797.
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