Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece

by: Brock, R. Hodkinson, S.

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Alternatives to Athens
Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece
Edited by Roger Brock and Stephen Hodkinson
Focuses on a range of city states operating a variety of non-democratic political systems in the ancient Greek world
Redresses the balance by showing that democratic Athens was not the model ancient Greek state

Description
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.

Table of Contents
Alternatives to Athens, Introduction, Roger Brock and Stephen Hodkinson
1:Theognis - Alternative to Democracy, Robin Lane Fox
2:Megara's Mafiosi, Hans Van Wees
3:Exchange and Stasis in Mytilene, Nigel Spencer
4:Cyrene, Typical, or Atypical?, Barbara Mitchell
5:Monarchy in Athenian Democracy, David Braund
6:Oligarchies in Athens, P. J. Rhodes
7:Syracusan Democracy, N. K. Rutter
8:Aristotle's Mixed Constitution, Andrew Lintott
9:The Polis in Italy, Kathryn Lomas
10:Cities and the Athenian Ethnos, Catherine Morgan
11:Space Hierarchy and Community, Zosia Halina Archibald
12:The Molossian Ethnos, State, and Monarchy, J. K. Davies
13:Homeric and Macedonian Kingship, Pierre Carlier
14:The 'Kings' of Achaemenid Lycia, Antony G. Keen
15:The Pre-polis Polis, W. G. Forrest
16:Delphi and her External Relations, Michael Arrush
17:Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy, James Roy
18:Federalism in West Crete, N. V. Sekunda

Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece

by: Brock, R. Hodkinson, S.

• ISBN-13: 9780199258109 / 978-0-19-925810-9
• ISBN-03: 0199258104 / 0-19-925810-4
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2002

Price: 75,00 EURO

1 copy in stock