The League of the Aitolians

John D. Grainger

BRILL, 1999 - Architecture - 585 pages

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.

Contents

• A Pirate State?: 3
• The Beginning of the League Before 335: 29
• Survival 330300: 54
• The First Phase 300278: 87
• The Second Phase 278260: 105
• A Generation of Peace 270245: 130
• The Challenge from Achaia 245239: 147
• Introduction: 167
• Aitolian Wealth: 188
• The Armed Forces: 202
• The First Macedonian War The War of Demetrios: 217
• The Second Macedonian War The Social: 244
• The Second Macedonian War The Social: 269
• The Social Problem and the Causes of the Fourth: 338
• The Fourth Macedonian War 199197: 363
• The Break with Rome 197192: 407
• 1 The Seleukid Alliance 192191: 435
• 2 Aitolia Alone 191189: 463
• The Roman Client 189167: 499
• The End of the League From 167: 531
• The Achievements of the League: 549
• Magistrates of the Aitolian League: 555
• Abbreviations: 561
• Index: 569

Popular passages

Page 563 - Le partage des profits de la guerre dans les traités d'alliance antique.‎

About the author

John D. Grainger, Ph.D. (1987), in Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Birmingham, has published on Hellenistic history, including "A Seleukid Prosopography and Gazetteer" (Brill, 1997).

Bibliographic information

• Title: The League of the Aitolians; Volume 200 of Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. 200: Supplementum, ISSN 0169-8958; Volume 200 of Mnemosyne: History and Archeology of Classical Antiquity, ISSN 0169-8958; Volume 200 of Mnemosyne: Supplementum, ISSN 0169-8958
• Author: John D. Grainger
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: BRILL, 1999
• ISBN: 9004109110, 9789004109117
• Length: 585 pages
• Subjects: Architecture / Interior Design / General; History / Ancient / Greece