Frontmatter
List of Maps and Figures
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
0. Introduction
0.1. Unthinking a Space
0.2. Making a Region
0.3. The Experience of Regionalism
0.4. The View from the Bottom of the Well
1. Ilion and its Contexts
1.1. Introduction: The Regional Personality of Ilion
1.2. Strabo's Troad
1.3. The Posthumous Lysimachi of Ilion
1.4. Ilion and the Koinon of Athena Ilias
1.5. Conclusions
2. The Forests of Mt. Ida
2.1. Introduction
2.2. The Saint and the Shepherd
2.3. The Forests of Mt. Ida Imagined
2.4. Theophrastos and the Forests of Mt. Ida
2.5. Pitch Production on Mt. Ida
2.6. Timber and Transport
2.7. The Epiphenomenal Polis? Antandros, Mt. Ida, and the Troad
2.8. The Inhabitants of Mt. Ida
2.9. Conclusions
Appendix: The Flora of Mt. Ida in Theophrastos' Enquiry into Plants
3. Horse Husbandry and Empire in the Middle Scamander Valley
3.1. Introduction
3.2. The Royal Herds around Mt. Ida
3.2.1. Eumenes on Mt. Ida
3.2.2. The Creation of the Royal Herds
3.2.3. The Size of the Royal Herds
3.2.4. Pasture
3.2.5. Horse Reading in the Middle Scamander Valley
3.3. The Royal Herds around Mt. Ida and Regional History
3.3.1. The Cost of Horse Rearing
3.3.2. The Adverse Impact of Large-Scale Horse Rearing
3.3.3. Managing the Impact of Empire: Tax, Horse Rearing, and Elite Politics
3.4. Conclusions
4. The Mytilenaian Peraia and the Aktaian Cities
4.1. Introduction
4.2. The Mytilenaian Peraia
4.2.1. The Aktaian Cities
4.2.2. Athens and the Aktaian Cities
4.2.3. Mytilene and the Aktaian Cities
4.2.4. The Nature of the Mytilenaian Peraia
4.3. Mytilene and the Mainland
4.3.1. Beyond Territorial Control
4.3.2. Coinage and Commercial Networks
4.4. Conclusions
5. The Hellenistic Koinon of the Lesbians
5.1. Introduction
5.2. The Refoundation of the Lesbian Koinon
5.2.1. Between Sovereignty and Cooperation
5.2.2. Federal Citizenship and Isopoliteia
5.2.3. Interstate Diplomacy
5.2.4. Foreign Judges
5.2.5. Deliberative Bodies and Magistrates of the Koinon
5.2.6. Mutual Defence and Tax Farming
5.2.7. Conclusions
5.3. Collective Lesbian Identity (7th-2nd c. BC)
5.3.1. Collective Identities and Intra-Island Rivalries
5.3.2. Collective Ethnics on Lesbian Coinage
5.3.3. The Sanctuary at Messon
5.3.4. Foundation Myths
5.3.5. Identity and Iconography on the Coinages of Hellenistic Lesbos
5.3.6. Proxeny and Separateness
5.4. Conclusions
Appendix: The Treaty of the Lesbian Koinon
6. Aiolian Land
6.1. Introduction
6.2. The Dispute over Mytilene's Peraia in Aiolis
6.3. Aiolian and Lesbian Identities
6.3.1. Lesbos and Aiolian Kinship before the 1st c. BC
6.3.2. Mytilene's Aiolian Identity in the Julio-Claudian Period
6.4. Between Regional and Imperial Space
6.5. Conclusions
7. Conclusions
Endmatter
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Sources