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Aetolian League

a federation of ancient Greek city-states. Founded circa 320 B.C., the league originally included only Aetolian cities, but from the middle of the third century B.C., it embraced cities in central and northern Greece and the Peloponnesus. The supreme body of the league was the general assembly, which was convened once a year. Presiding over the assembly and handling administrative work was a strategos. The Aetolian League was conquered by Rome in 189 B.C..

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The earliest instance of mediation as a tool in resolving conflict can be traced back to 209BC when Greek city-states assisted the Aetolian League and Macedonia to produce a truce in the first Macedonian War.

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Plautus' prologus now unravels the web of family relationships behind his plot, beginning a sixty-line tale of "who stole whom from whom." Two cities stand out in multiple references: Carthage, homeland of most of the principal cast (Carthaginienses is the first word of the plot explication at line 58), and Calydon, chief city of the Aetolian League, dramatic setting for this play and adopted city of the Carthaginian's nephew and daughters.

Nullus Me Est Hodie Poenus Poenior: Balanced Ethnic Humor in Plautus' Poenulus

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