Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 627 g
Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece
Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 627 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-925810-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press
In 1993 the world celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, whose polis - or citizen state - is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. In an age when democracy has apparently triumphed following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, we tend to forget that the democratic citizen-state was only one of many forms of political community in Greek antiquity. This volume aims to redress the balance. Eighteen essays by established and younger historians examine alternative political systems and ideologies: oligarchies, monarchies, and mixed constitutions along with diverse forms of communal and regional associations such as ethnoi, amphiktyonies, and confederacies. The papers, which span the length and breadth of the Hellenic world from the Balkans and Anatolia to Magna Graecia and north Africa, highlight the immense political flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilization.
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
Weitere Infos & Material
- Alternatives to Athens, Introduction
- 1: Robin Lane Fox: Theognis - Alternative to Democracy
- 2: Hans Van Wees: Megara's Mafiosi
- 3: Nigel Spencer: Exchange and Stasis in Mytilene
- 4: Barbara Mitchell: Cyrene, Typical, or Atypical?
- 5: David Braund: Monarchy in Athenian Democracy
- 6: P. J. Rhodes: Oligarchies in Athens
- 7: N. K. Rutter: Syracusan Democracy
- 8: Andrew Lintott: Aristotle's Mixed Constitution
- 9: Kathryn Lomas: The Polis in Italy
- 10: Catherine Morgan: Cities and the Athenian Ethnos
- 11: Zosia Halina Archibald: Space Hierarchy and Community
- 12: J. K. Davies: The Molossian Ethnos, State, and Monarchy
- 13: Pierre Carlier: Homeric and Macedonian Kingship
- 14: Antony G. Keen: The 'Kings' of Achaemenid Lycia
- 15: W. G. Forrest: The Pre-polis Polis
- 16: Michael Arrush: Delphi and her External Relations
- 17: James Roy: Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy
- 18: N. V. Sekunda: Federalism in West Crete
