Classics Colloquium with Adrian Robu

The city of Megara controlled a key region in Antiquity, the Megarid, a narrow strip of land connecting Central Greece and Attica to the Peloponnese. Megara possessed two main ports on the Corinthian Gulf, Aigosthena and Pagai, two settlements that acquired the status of polis after the middle of the 3rd century B.C.  The cities of the Megarid were the only Greek city-states that belonged to both Achaian and Boiotian koina in the Hellenistic period. Old and new inscriptions give us further information on the institutional changes adopted by the Megarians as member of the Achaian League and the Boiotian Confederacy. It becomes obvious that the civic institutions of the polis are influenced by its integration into federal states. My presentation will examine the connections between political transformation and external influences regarding the institutions and the epigraphic culture of Megara.

Tea at 4 p.m. in the Quita Woodward Room.