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Material Type: | Document |
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Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
S C Humphreys |
ISBN: | 9780191092398 0191092398 9780198788249 019878824X |
OCLC Number: | 1117881259 |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Contents: | VOL. 1FrontmatterPrefaceList of TablesList of AbbreviationsKey to Reading Tables0: IntroductionPart 1: Legal and Economic Interaction1: Drakon and Solon2: Adoption3: Guardianship4: Marriage with Kin5: Property6: Economic Cooperation7: DisputesPart 2: Ritual8: Names9: Rites de Passage10: Funerals and Burials11: Commemoration12: Festivals, Associations, DedicationsPart 3: Politics, Informal13: Young Men's Social Groupings14: Political Marriages, Lawsuits, Curse TabletsPart 4: Politics, Formal15: Paredroi, Ostracism, the Thirty16: Ambassadors, Generals, Military Commands17: Council and AssemblyVOL. 2Part 5: Corporate Groups18: The Pre-Kleisthenic Tribes and Trittyes19: The Phratries20: The Gene21: The Kleisthenic Tribes and TrittyesPart 6: The Demes22: The Demes: Introduction23: I Erechtheis24: II Aigeis25: III Pandionis26: IV Leontis27: V Akamantis28: VI Oineis29: VII Kekropis30: VIII Hippothontis31: IX Aiantis32: X AntiochisAppendices1. Lists2. The Hekatostai Records3. IG ii3 4. 3254. Lykourgos' Sons5. POxy 2464EndmatterBibliographyIndex of Sources:Inscriptions and papyriTextsVasesIndex of Proper NamesSubject Index |
Responsibility: | S.C. Humphreys. |
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[The book is] an invaluable reference tool and thought-provoking read, this book will surely take its rightful place on shelves of libraries and scholars seeking an in-depth understanding of the social history of classical Athens. * David Stuttard, Classics for all * Recommended. * CHOICE * In the end, this very classic work in its subject and its method, this work with epistemological options (reconstruct the history of Athens at the time of Solon, for example) or with sometimes outdated concepts (and the author recognizes it), this book... fascinates by the sum of the documents used and the height of sight based on an intimate frequentation of ancient texts (thus the speakers) and historiography. Kinship in Ancient Athens is already a must. * Violaine Sebillotte Cuchet, University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Sehepunkte * [A] monumental study of kinship in ancient Athens...Humphreys' magisterial account...provides the foundations for a new understanding of archaic Athenian history on the basis of a comprehensive study of the material culture of seventh-century Athens in four crucial topographical settings: the Acropolis, the Kerameikos, the Agora, and the south part of the city. * Kostas Vlassopoulos, University of Crete * Read more...

