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Overlapping allegiances
ConceptDifferent ties can impose conflicting expectations on the same community.
Explanation or usage
A city can owe political obligations to one power while retaining ancestral or institutional ties to another. When rivals issue incompatible demands, those connections can become a route for escalation. Identifying each relationship helps explain choices without assuming one simple allegiance.
Common misunderstandings
A colonial connection and a current alliance are always the same relationship.
In The History of the Peloponnesian War
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Potidaea was an Athenian tributary ally and a Corinthian colony with continuing ties to Corinth.