Aegean Interactions: Delos and its Networks in the Third Century
Christy Constantakopoulou
Abstract
This book addresses the history of interaction in the Aegean world during the third century BC. The main focus is the island of Delos and its important regional sanctuary. Through a thorough investigation of the Delian epigraphic and material evidence, it explores how and to which degree the islands of the southern Aegean formed active networks of political, religious, and cultural interaction. The book aims to show that this kind of regional interaction in the southern Aegean resulted in the creation of a regional identity, which was expressed, among other things, in the existence of a federa ... More
This book addresses the history of interaction in the Aegean world during the third century BC. The main focus is the island of Delos and its important regional sanctuary. Through a thorough investigation of the Delian epigraphic and material evidence, it explores how and to which degree the islands of the southern Aegean formed active networks of political, religious, and cultural interaction. The book aims to show that this kind of regional interaction in the southern Aegean resulted in the creation of a regional identity, which was expressed, among other things, in the existence of a federal union of the islands, the so-called Islanders’ League. It is structured along the lines of four case studies which explore different types of networks around Delos: the federal organization of islands (Islanders’ League), the participation of Delian and other agents in the processes of monumentalization of the Delian landscape, the network of honours, and the social dynamics of dedication through the record of dedicants in the Delian inventories.
Keywords:
Hellenistic Delos,
Aegean Sea,
inventories,
honorific decrees,
Islanders’ League,
Aegean networks,
proxeny,
Aegean islands,
regionalism,
network theory
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2017 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780198787273 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: July 2017 |
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198787273.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Christy Constantakopoulou, author
Senior Lecturer in Ancient History, Birkbeck College, University of London
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