Blessed Thessaly : the identities of a place and its people from the Archaic period to the Hellenistic / Emma Aston.
| Author/creator | Aston, Emma author. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2024. |
| Description | xii, 504 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Liverpool studies in ancient history Liverpool studies in ancient history. ^A1467601 |
| Summary | Thessaly, in northern Greece, remains one of the less-often studied regions of the ancient Greek world. Its name calls to mind cavalry charging over wide, fertile plains; wealth and oligarchy; witches and necromancy. Like all stereotypes, this has kernels of truth but is essentially distorting and limited. One reason for Thessaly's relative obscurity is that it continues to issue a special challenge to our understanding of how ancient societies were composed and organised. Our dominant model for this understanding is the polis, and yet a polis-based approach, applied to Thessaly, only yields half the picture. There, individual communities were linked by a regional superstructure of identity and organisation: being Thessalian. Being Thessalian, and the expression of being Thessalian, are the subject of this book. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-480) and index. |
| ISBN | 9781835530016 |
| ISBN | 183553001X pbk |
| ISBN | ebk |
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