Chapter 11 Elis and Pisatis: A Case Study in Political Participation
In: Politeia and Koinōnia
Author:
Hans-Joachim Gehrke
Hans-Joachim Gehrke
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Abstract
The article deals with political participation within the political union of the Eleians (Elis), mainly in the archaic and early classical periods. The first part gives an overview of the union’s institutional framework. In the second part the preliminary results of recent fieldwork in the area surrounding Olympia are used to shed new light on the intensely discussed socio-political organisation of early Pisa. A point is made in favour of an early local community that was constituted by the administration of the newly established cult in Olympia and was later, due to the growing success and complexity of the cult practices, incorporated into the Eleian Union.