“The Aetolian-Acarnanian Plain between Inner and External Frontier” by Claudia Antonetti (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia).
This FeBinar is the fourth one of the FeBinar series “Crossing Federal Borders: Ancient and Modern” focusing on external border areas of ancient Greek federal states. It will address the dual nature of external and internal ‘border’ of the so-called ‘Aetolian Basin’ as well as (often unresolved) problems of the debate on ancient federalism as the notions of ‘district’, of areal economic integration, of ‘federal annexation’, of autonomy (more below).
This seminar proposes a diachronic study of the so-called ‘Aetolian Basin’, the central plain between Aetolia and Acarnania, crossed by the Acheloos river: an area that was undoubtedly a geographical unit, but which was politically divided and, above all, the subject of repeated claims at local, federal and regional levels. It was a ‘fluid’ area in the political geography of Western Greece, and it is no coincidence that its study reopens all the (often unresolved) problems of the debate on ancient federalism: the notions of ‘district’, of areal economic integration, of ‘federal annexation’, of autonomy. The dual nature of the external and internal ‘border’ that this territory embodies does not hide, but rather reinforces, its fundamental function as a ‘corridor’ of communication.
This FeBinar will take place on April 18 at 6 pm CEST.
Further details can be found here. To participate online register here.
More information on the project can be found at the new FeBo website, while recordings of past FeBinars are available at the FeBo playlist on the University of Trento’s YouTube channel.