League of the Macedonians
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Koinon of Macedonians
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The League of the Macedonians (
Beroia.[3]
History
Both numismatic and inscriptional evidence attest to the existence of the Macedonian koinon before and after the
Roman period.[4] It was reorganized under the early Roman Empire and transformed into an institution related to the imperial cult as happened to all the koina of the period.[4]
The koinon, administered by local elite members, organized and financed games and festivals and were awarded Roman citizenship. Using traditional ethnic symbols depicted on its coins, such as the Macedonian shield and the winged thunderbolt, the koinon preserved a sense of Greek/Macedonian civic identity within the province until the end of the 2nd century AD.[4] The last attestation of a person "ethnically" identified as Macedonian is dated to the beginning of the 4th century AD.[5]
References
Citations
- ^ Mackil 2013, pp. 304–305 including Map 11.1.
- ^ a b Walbank 1993, p. 84.
- ^ Gill 1994, p. 415.
- ^ a b c d Kremydi-Sicilianou 2005, pp. 101–102.
- ^ Hatzopoulos 2011, p. 35.
Sources
- Gill, David W.J. (1994). "CHAPTER 11 MACEDONIA". In Gill, David W.J.; Gempf, Conrad (eds.). The Book of Acts in Its Graeco-Roman Setting. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company. ISBN 978-0-80-284847-5.
- Hatzopoulos, Miltiades B. (2011). "Macedonian Studies". In Lane Fox, Robin J. (ed.). Brill's Companion to Ancient Macedon: Studies in the Archaeology and History of Macedon, 650 BC – 300 AD. Leiden: Brill. pp. 35–42. ISBN 978-90-04-20650-2.
- ISBN 0-19-923784-0.
- Mackil, Emily (2013). "CHAPTER 11 THE GREEK KOINON". In Bang, Peter Fibiger; Scheidel, Walter (eds.). The Oxford Handbook of the State in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 304–323. ISBN 978-0-19-518831-8.
- Walbank, Frank William (1993) [1981]. The Hellenistic World: Revised Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-38726-0.