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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Athenian democracy. New York : Oxford University Press, ©2004 (OCoLC)653048827 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
P J Rhodes |
ISBN: | 0195221397 9780195221398 0195221400 9780195221404 0748616861 9780748616862 074861687X 9780748616879 |
OCLC Number: | 53912566 |
Description: | xiv, 358 pages : maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Athenian citizenship : the descent group and the alternatives / John K. Davies -- How did the Athenian Ecclesia vote? / Mogens Herman Hansen -- Aristotle, the Kleroteria, and the courts / Sterling Dow -- Jury pay and assembly pay at Athens / M.M. Markle -- Capital punishment / Louis Gernet -- Athenian demagogues / M.I. Finley -- Political activity in classical Athens / P.J. Rhodes -- Competitive festivals and the polis : a context for dramatic festivals at Athens / Robin Osborne -- Public and private interests in classical Athens / S.C. Humphreys -- How a political myth takes shape : Solon, "founding father" of the Athenian democracy / Claude Mossé -- The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 B.C. : violence, authority, and the origins of democracy / Josiah Ober -- Cleisthenes and Attica / David M. Lewis -- Ephialtes, Eisangelia, and the council / Raphael Sealey -- The Greeks : the political revolution in world history / Christian Meier. |
Responsibility: | edited by P.J. Rhodes. |
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Abstract:
P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice.
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Invaluable... This collection will give students a much better idea of how we know what we think we know about the Athenian democracy, and will stimulate productive debates about how to go about increasing our knowledge and understanding of its history and character. Invaluable... This collection will give students a much better idea of how we know what we think we know about the Athenian democracy, and will stimulate productive debates about how to go about increasing our knowledge and understanding of its history and character. Read more...
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