The Aetolian League is one of the…
270 BCE
The Aetolian League is one of the most important Greek confederations.
The federal constitution of Aetolia, probably a model for that of the Achaean League, provides for two main ruling bodies.
The primary assembly, composed of all adult male citizens and presided over by the annually elected general (strategos), meets at Thermum to elect officials and at various cities to transact other business.
In the council (boule or synedrion), which supervises administration, cities are represented in proportion to their populations.
Apokletoi, a small group of at least thirty who are assigned essential duties in wartime, assist the strategos, who has complete control in the field.
Leadership within the league is always kept in Aetolian hands, since the more distant states, which are linked to the confederacy by isopolity (potential citizenship), have full civil, but no political, rights.
The Aetolian League in about 270 gains an alliance with Antigonus.
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