Feasting and Polis Institutions

Exploring a wide array of commensal practices, Feasting and Polis Institutions shows how feasts defined religious and political institutions in the Greek polis from the Early Iron Age to the Imperial Period.

Floris van den Eijnde, Ph.D. (2010), Utrecht University, is assistant Professor in Ancient History at that university. He has published on the cults and religion of early Greece and leads an international team conducting archaeological fieldwork project there.Josine Blok is Professor of Ancient History at Utrecht University. She is interested in the history of archaic and classical Greece in a wide sense, especially citizenship, on which she recently published Citizenship in classical Athens (Cambridge UP, 2017).Rolf Strootman is associate professor of Ancient History at the University of Utrecht. He is the author of Courts and Elites in the Hellenistic Empires, 330–30 BCE (2014) and various publications on monarchy and empire in the Hellenistic World. Contributors are: Alexandra Alexandridou, Josine Blok, Jan-Mathieu Carbon, Floris van den Eijnde, Stephen Lambert, Kathleen Lynch, Richard Madgwick, Manuela Mari, Stephanie Paul, Ann Steiner, Rolf Strootman, Vicky Vlachou, Marek Wecowski, James Whitley, Evelyn van ‘t Wout.