Antiquity Studies

Territoires multiples : discours politiques, discours identitaires

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Abstract

This volume, developed within the TeMAES research program (Territoires Multiples : agentivité et environnements socio-économiques), explores the role of political and identity discourses in the construction of ancient Greek territories. Combining approaches drawn from discourse archaeology, spatial studies, and theories of agency, the contributions examine how territories were defined, justified, and negotiated through language, representations, and social practices. Attention is paid to the interaction between political language, collective identities, and territorial appropriation across multiple scales within the Greek world.

Keywords Spatial studies • Pagai • Villages • Balkan historiography • Archaic period • Early Iron Age • Megara • Post-Pydna Epirus • Messenians • Dorians • Ancient landscape • Ville • Bouthroton • Achaians • Greek religion • Multiple sovereignty • Agentivité • Ethnos • Lokrians • Macedonia • Sacred areas • Territoire • Aitolians • Herodotus • Thasos • Cité • Thrace • Eparcheia • Sparta • Earthquake of Helike • Cultic foundation • Ethnos-koinon • Gulf of Corinth • Koinon of the Prasaiboi • Borders • Thesprotia • Roman province • Doris • Federal states • Archaic and Classical periods • Aigosthena • Sicily • Herakleidai • Hegemonic symmachia • Koinon • Military alliances • <br> • Athenians • Federalism • Koina • Colonisation • Cross-border interaction • Carie • Territories • Political language • Crete • Himera • Polyainos • Agency • Antigonid kings • Perrhaiboi • Territory • Political community formation • Identity • Territoriality

Thema codes NHTP • NHC • NHTB • 1QBAG

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/979-12-5742-078-9 | e-ISBN 979-12-5742-078-9 | ISBN (PRINT) 979-12-5742-079-6 | Published Oct. 20, 2026 | Accepted June 3, 2026 | Submitted Oct. 13, 2025 | Language fr, it, en

Funding RnMSH | Université de Strasbourg | Ca' Foscari University of Venice | Université Bourgogne Europe | Université de Haute-Alsace | Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès | Université de Tours | Archéologie et Histoire Ancienne : Méditerranée – Europe | Archéologie, Terre, Histoire, Sociétés | Centre Tourangeau d’Histoire et d’Études des Sources | Patrimoine, Littérature, Histoire

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