2025/08/05 by Ruben Post · 1 voice
Social Sciences · Business, Management and Accounting · Arts and Humanities · #Classical Antiquity Studies #Law, logistics, and international trade #Ancient Near East History
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A unique federal fiscal and legal institution from Early Hellenistic AchaiaAt the beginning of the 3rd cent.BCE, the small poleis of Achaia in the northwestern Peloponnese were divided.While they had been united under the aegis of a federal state in the 4th cent.BCE, that koinon had disappeared by c. 300 BCE.1 As Polybios explains, however, the Achaian federal impulse re-emerged in 281/0 BCE when "a change of sentiment prevailed, and they began again to join together" ( ).2He elaborates: , , , : . .The first to take this step were the citizens of Dyme, Patrai, Tritaia, and Pharai.This is why no stele pertaining to the sympoliteia of these cities exists.But about five years afterwards, the people of Aigion expelled their garrison and joined the sympoliteia.