The League of the AitoliansThe 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 29 255 | 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 |
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 |
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Achaian Achaian League Acheloos Aegean Aitol Aitolian army Aitolian forces Aitolian League Akarnanian Alexander Alexandros alliance allies Ambrakia Amphiktyony Amphissa Amynandros Antigonos Antigonos Gonatas Antiochos Antipatros Aratos Assembly Athamania Athenian Athens attack Attalos Boiotia campaign capture cavalry Chalkis clear clearly commander Corinth Damokritos defeat Delphi Demetrios Diod Dorimachos Elateia elected Elis enemy envoys Epeiros Euboia exiles fighting Flamininus garrison Glabrio Greece Greek Gulf Hammond Herakleia hieromnemones ians Illyria Illyrian inscription invasion involved ISBN 90 join Kalydon Kassandros king Lamia land league's Lefèvre Livy Lokris Lykiskos Macedon Macedonian mercenaries Messenia Nabis Naupaktos negotiations Nikandros numbers Oiniadai Opous peace Peloponnese perhaps Perseus Phaineas Pharsalos Phigaleia Philip Phokian Phokis piracy Plut political Polybios Polyperchon presumably Pyrros raid Rome seems Senate siege Skopas soldiers Sparta strategos Stratos suggests Symmachy territory Thebes Thermopylai Thermos Thessalian Thessaly Thoas Timaios tion took treaty Trichonos troops Walbank
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