Abstract The aim of this article is to establish a new basis for exploring the network of ancient Greek city-states during the Classical and Hellenistic periods by applying Social Network Analysis to the record of inscriptions recording grants of proxeny. Proxeny was a generalized institution for facilitating interactions between Greek political communities. Because it left a rich and idiosyncratic record in the form of thousands of honorific inscriptions, it represents an important test case for Social Network Analysis. By drawing on work on partial samples of network data, we can identify a clear and historically significant structure in this material, namely a massively unequal hierarchy in the extent to which different communities were the focus of links. This allows us to compare, systematically, the hundreds of Greek city-states in terms of their connectivity in the network. As a result it provides a new empirical basis for testing prevailing models and assumptions about why these communities forged links and mapping the limits of the network. By reading this hierarchy alongside the other information we have, we can identify the role that political, economic and geographic factors played in determining connectivity in this network, and the surprising unimportance of religion.

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“Proxenoi 在哪里？” 社交网络分析、连接性和希腊 Poleis

摘要 本文的目的是通过将社会网络分析应用于记录代理授权的铭文记录，为探索古典和希腊化时期的古希腊城邦网络奠定新的基础。Proxeny 是一个促进希腊政治社区之间互动的通用机构。因为它以成千上万的敬语铭文的形式留下了丰富而独特的记录，所以它代表了社交网络分析的一个重要测试案例。通过对部分网络数据样本的研究，我们可以在该材料中识别出一个清晰且具有历史意义的结构，即在不同社区成为链接焦点的程度上存在巨大不平等的层次结构。这使我们能够系统地比较，数百个希腊城邦在网络中的连通性。因此，它提供了一个新的经验基础，用于测试流行的模型和假设，这些模型和假设是关于为什么这些社区建立链接和映射网络的限制。通过阅读这个层次结构以及我们拥有的其他信息，我们可以确定政治、经济和地理因素在决定这个网络中的连通性方面所起的作用，以及宗教的惊人重要性。