The Double City of Megalopolis
1898; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 18; Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/623713
ISSN2041-4099
Autores Tópico(s)Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
Resumo§ 1. It is less easy to forgive Xenophon for telling us so little about the foundation of Megalopolis than for telling us nothing at all about the foundation of Messene. We would give much to know the details of the building of the city on the slopes of Ithome and the synoecism of Messenia; but Megalopolis, in its double character of a federate city and a federal capital, presented such complicated problems that the silence of those who could have best told us how those problems were solved is more aggravating than many of such silences to the curiosity of posterity. In this paper I propose to deal with one problem which seems never to have been quite realised.
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