Author: Edward Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: nation, athenian
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2002-11-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 069109490X
ISBN-13: 9780691094908
Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a "nation" (ethnos), and that Athens did encompass the characteristics now used to identify a "nation." He argues that in Athens economic, religious, sexual, and social dimensions were no less significant than political and juridical considerations, and accordingly rejects prevailing scholarship’s equation of Athens with its male
Author: Jon D. Mikalson
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Keywords: religion, popular, athenian
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 1987-08-24
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0807841943
ISBN-13: 9780807841945
Most modern studies of Athenian religion have focused on festivals, cult practices, and individual deities. Jon Mikalson turns instead to the religious beliefs citizens of Athens spoke of and acted upon in everyday life. He uses evidence only from reliable, mostly contemporary sources such as the orators Lysias and Demosthenes, the historian Xenophon, and state decrees, sacred laws, religious dedications, and epitaphs."This is in no sense a general history of Athenian religion," Mikalson writes, "even within the narrow historical boundaries set. It is rather an investigation of what might b
Author: Edward M. Harris
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: politics, athenian, aeschines
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1995-02-16
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0195082850
ISBN-13: 9780195082852
Filling a major gap in scholarship, this is the first full-length study of the Athenian politician Aeschines. Along with Isocrates, Aeschines was one of the most prominent Athenian politicians who advocated friendly ties with the Macedonian king Philip II. Though overshadowed by his famous rival Demosthenes, Aeschines played a key role in the decisive events that marked the rise of Macedonian power in Greece and formed the transition from the Classical to the Hellenistic period. Three long speeches by Aeschines, all delivered in court battles with his opponent Demosthenes, have been preserved
Author: David Stockton
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: democracy, athenian, classical
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1990-08-09
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0198721366
ISBN-13: 9780198721369
This critical study, designed for the modern reader, explains what the institutions of the classical Athenian democracy were, how they worked, and on what assumptions they were founded. Incorporating important recent work by historians, epigraphists, and archaeologists, Stockton traces the broad development of the Athenian constitution from the reforms of Solon in the early sixth century to those of Ephialtes in the late 460s B.C., carefully examining the fully-developed democratic system of the post-Ephialtic period. Stockton translates all Greek terms and explains difficult essays making t
Author: Donald Kagan
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Keywords: empire, athenian
Number of Pages: 72
Published: 1991-07-23
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801499844
ISBN-13: 9780801499845
Author: Edward Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: society, economy, athenian
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 1997-01-06
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0691015929
ISBN-13: 9780691015927
In this ground-breaking analysis of the world’s first private banks, Edward Cohen convincingly demonstrates the existence and functioning of a market economy in ancient Athens while revising our understanding of the society itself. Challenging the "primitivistic" view, in which bankers are merely pawnbrokers and money-changers, Cohen reveals that fourth-century Athenian bankers pursued sophisticated transactions. These dealings--although technologically far removed from modern procedures--were in financial essence identical with the lending and deposit-taking that separate true "banks" f
Author: Josiah Ober
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: going, together, politics, essays, legacies, athenian
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2005-08-22
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 0691120951
ISBN-13: 9780691120959
How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going on together presents few difficulties. But in the face of loss, disruption, and civil war, it requires tragic sacrifices and agonizing compromises. Athenian Legacies demonstrates with flair and verve how the people of one influential political community rebuilt their democratic government, rewove their social fabric, and, thro
