Athenian Democratic Origins and Other Essays

by: de Ste. Croix, G.E.M.

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Athenian Democratic Origins
and Other Essays
G. E. M. de Ste. Croix
David Harvey and Robert Parker
Essays by a great radical historian
Presents de Ste. Croix's innovative vision of the essential features of the Athenian democracy
A major contribution to contemporary debate

Description
In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle's use of sources in The Constitution of the Athenians, on which so much of our knowledge of Athenian constitutional history depends. Ste. Croix also argues that commercial factors had much less influence on Greek politics than modern scholars tend to assume, and that there was no such thing in any Greek state as a `commercial aristocracy'. As always, he works out these general positions with the utmost lucidity and pungency, and in meticulous detail. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays by a great radical historian will still constitute a major contribution to contemporary debate. The editors and other specialists have supplied an updating Afterword to each chapter, and the book contains a thorough index.

Table of Contents
Editors' Introduction
1:The Solonian Census Classes and the Qualifications for Cavalry and Hoplite Service
2:Five Notes on Solon's Constitution
3:Solon, the Horoi and the Hektemoroi
4:Cleisthenes I: The Constitution
5:Cleisthenes II: Ostracism, Archons, and Strategoi
6:The Athenian Citizenship Laws
7:Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia and Early Athenian History
8:The Metra in Aristotle, Eth. Nic. V.vii.1134b 35-35a3
9:How Far was Trade a Cause of Early Greek Colonization?
10:But What About Aegina?
11:Herodotus and King Cleomenes of Sparta

Athenian Democratic Origins and Other Essays

by: de Ste. Croix, G.E.M.

• ISBN-13: 9780199285167 / 978-0-19-928516-7
• ISBN-03: 0199285160 / 0-19-928516-0
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005

Price: 59,00 EURO

1 copy in stock