Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. — 285 p. Population and Economy in Classical Athens This is the first comprehensive account of the population of classical Athens for almost a century. The methodology of earlier scholars has been criticised in general terms but their conclusions have not been seriously challenged. Ben Akrigg reviews and assesses those methodologies...
London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015 — 264 p. — ISBN10: 1441113711; ISBN13: 978-1441113719. This volume presents a wide range of literary and epigraphic sources on the history of the world's first democracy, offering a comprehensive survey of the key themes and principles of Athenian democratic culture. Beginning with the mythical origins of Athenian democracy under...
Foreword by Paul Cartledge — Princeton University Press, 2014. — 312 p. Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama, poetry,...
Foreword by Paul Cartledge — Oxford University Press, 2017. — 304 p. This investigation relies on a rash bet: to write the biography of two of the most famous statues in Antiquity, the Tyrannicides. Representing the murderers of the tyrant Hipparchus in full action, these statues erected on the Agora of Athens have been in turn worshipped, outraged, and imitated. They have...
University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. — 352 p. A lucrative trade in Athenian pottery flourished from the early sixth until the late fifth century B.C.E., finding an eager market in Etruria. Most studies of these painted vases focus on the artistry and worldview of the Greeks who made them, but Sheramy D. Bundrick shifts attention to their Etruscan customers, ancient trade...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. Bezweckt wird, die historisch rekonstruierbare Wirklichkeit der athenischen Truppeneinsätze zu Land und zu Wasser während des 4. Jhs. und das Verhalten und den Status der dort verwendeten Soldaten mit dem von den Rednern vermittelten Bild und ihren Bewertungen der Bürger und Nicht-Bürger als Soldaten zu konfrontieren. Damit sollte es möglich sein,...
University of California Press, 1981. — 215 p. The Second Athenian League was a maritime confederation of Aegean city-states from 378–355 BC and headed by Athens, primarily for self-defense against the growth of Sparta and secondly, the Persian Empire.
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 246 p. The relationship between law, politics and society in democratic Athens is a central but neglected aspect of ancient Greek history that is beginning to attract increasing interest. Nomos brings together ten essays by a group of British and American scholars who aim to explore ways in which Athenian legal texts can be read in their...
New York, "Cambridge University Press", 2006, -263 p. This book provides a fresh perspective on Athenian democracy by exploring bad citizenship, as both a reality and an idea, in classical Athens, from the late sixth century down to 322 B.C. If called upon, Athenian citizens were expected to support their city through military service and financial outlay. These obligations...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 228 p. Athenians in the classical period (508-322 BC) were drawn to an image of themselves as a compassionate and generous people who rushed to the aid of others in distress, both at home and abroad. What relation does this image bear to actual Athenian behavior? This book argues that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help...
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 226 p. — (Key Themes in Ancient History). This book examines the legal regulation of violence and the role of litigation in Athenian society. Using comparative anthropological and historical perspectives, David Cohen challenges traditional evolutionary and functionalist accounts of the development of legal process. Examining Athenian theories...
Princeton University Press, 1992. — 312 p. 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...
Princeton University Press, 2000. — 272 p. 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...
Brill Academic Pub, 2008. — 283 p. — (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 293) The Long Walls joining Athens with its harbors are universally recognized as symbols of naval imperialism and the lynchpin of a radical departure from traditional Greek military strategy during the later fifth century B.C. Nevertheless, many important questions about the structures remain...
De Laix R. A. Probouleusis at Athens. A Study of Political Decision-Making. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California press, 1973. 223 p.
Translated by Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings — Cornell University Press, 2019. — 228 p. This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450–404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Peloponnesian War, is both an extraordinary adventure story and a cautionary tale that reveals the dangers that political opportunism and demagoguery pose...
Routledge, 2017. — 408 p. The Birth of the Athenian Community elucidates the social and political development of Athens in the sixth century, when, as a result of reforms by Solon and Cleisthenes (at the beginning and end of the sixth century, respectively), Athens turned into the most advanced and famous city, or polis, of the entire ancient Greek civilization. Undermining the...
Franz Steiner Verlag. A detailed and heavily annotated political history of Athens that begins with the tyrant Lachares. Each chronological section analyses the problems inherent in the study of Athens' political, administrative and military systems during that period and assesses the value of a wide range of contemporary sources. This specialised study concludes with a lengthy...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 420 p. At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The defendants were all women and in each case the charges involved a combination of ritual activities. Two were condemned to death. Because of the brevity of the ancient sources, and their lack of agreement, the precise charges are unclear, and the...
Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1962. — X, 181 p. — (Phoenix Supplementary Volumes 5). The way in which the demes and trittyes of Attika were grouped for the formation of the Kleisthenic tribes is an important historical problem. The ten coastal demes lying between Athens and Sounion constituted the three coastal trittyes for three of the Athenian tribes, and in...
De Gruyter, 2017. — 790 s. Das Buch erzählt die Geschichte der Elite Athens zwischen 600 und 400 v. Chr. anhand der Bilder auf der Luxuskeramik, aus der die Reichen bei ihren Festen tranken. Über 6000 ausgewertete Darstellungen liefern Erkenntnisse über das Leben der Elite als Pferdehalter, Athleten und Bankettgesellschaft. Der Bildanalyse ist ein kulturgeschichtlicher Teil...
New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1952. — XII, 332 p. The classic study of the social and economic aspects of land credit relationships in ancient Athens.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1988 - 156 p. ISBN10: 0876612249 ISBN13: 9780876612248 (eng) This book collects for the first time the archaeological and historical evidence for the area of the Athenian Agora in Late Antiquity, a period which spans the last flourishing of the great philosophical schools, the defeat of classical paganism by Christianity, and the...
Oxford: Blackwell, 1999. — VIII, 239 p. A revised and enlarged translation of the original German edition, this is a study of the people's assembly of classical Athens, which is the best attested example in world history of a direct democracy.
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. — 447 p. — ISBN: 9781472540614 1472540611. This history of Athenian democracy covers the period 403-322 BC, and focuses in particular on the crucial last thirty years which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes and ended with his suicide in 322. It examines Athenian democracy both as a political system and as an ideology....
Cambridge University Press, 2010. — 332 p. Every Athenian alliance, every declaration of war, and every peace treaty was instituted by a decision of the assembly, where citizens voted after listening to speeches that presented varied and often opposing arguments about the best course of action. The fifteen preserved assembly speeches of the mid-fourth century BC thus provide an...
Paris: Flammarion, 2013. — 210 p. Identité. Du même auteur. Sommaire. Le retour de l’événement. L’exception et la règle. Anecdote ou événement? Le politique athénien : une brève définition. Athènes à la croisée des chemins. Chapitre premier - « L’affaire Socrate ». Socrate le sophiste : la dérision civique. Polycrate et la naissance de « l’affaire ». La deuxième naissance de...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1949. — VIII, 431 p. A great work of a great scholar on the difficult and debatable subject - the earlier hiistoriography of Athens (Hellenicus, Androtion, Philochorus and the other. Still remains the most important in this field.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. — 160 p. Ancient Greek literature, Athenian civic ideology, and modern classical scholarship have all worked together to reinforce the idea that there were three neatly defined status groups in classical Athens--citizens, slaves, and resident foreigners. But this book--the first comprehensive account of status in ancient...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 256 p. In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over intermingling and passing. Yet readers...
Routledge, 2014. — 192 p. Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being "sexually exploitable". Despite recent scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the ‘citizen wife’ and the "common prostitute", the scholarship on women, both citizen and foreign, is focused...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 224 p. Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings of Herodotus and Plutarch that his constitutional reforms against the venality, greed and political power-play of Attica's tyrants and noblemen were hugely...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2008. — 192 p. In Solon the Thinker John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its people, depends upon their...
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1928. — [vi], 138 p. Based on a study of the detailed accounts of money borrowed by the Athenian state, I.G. I², 324. A very important study of the Athenian calendar based on the inscriptions.
Cambridge University Press, 1991. — 385 p. Lending and borrowing were commonplace in Athens during the fourth century BC and could involve interest rates, security and banks, but the part played by credit was very different from its familiar role in capitalist society. Using a combination of sources, but concentrating on the law-court speeches of the Attic orators, Dr Millett...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 210 p. - ISBN-13 978-0-521-87345-1. The great plague of Athens that began in 430BCe had an enormous effect on the imagination of its literary artists and the social imagination of the city as a whole. In this book, Professor Mitchell-Boyask studies the impact of the plague on Athenian tragedy early in the 420s and argues for a significant...
Brill Academic Pub, 2009. — 357 p. — (History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 318) Erudite and urbane, a scion of the Peripatos, Demetrius of Phalerum dominated Athenian political life for a decade (317-307 B.C.E.) with Macedonian support. Viewed by some as the embodiment of the longed-for 'philosopher-king', Demetrius has been seen a test case for the interplay of...
Princeton University Press, 2008. — 342 p. When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. Democracy and Knowledge is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly democratic government by the people...
Princeton University Press, 1998. — 440 p. How and why did the Western tradition of political theorizing arise in Athens during the late fifth and fourth centuries B.C.? By interweaving intellectual history with political philosophy and literary analysis, Josiah Ober argues that the tradition originated in a high-stakes debate about democracy. Since elite Greek intellectuals...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 304 p. How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture. Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 304 p. How remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek culture. Why did soldiers stop fighting, athletes stop competing, and lovers stop having graphic sex in classical Greek art? The scenes depicted on Athenian pottery of the mid-fifth century BC are very different from those of the late sixth...
Proceedings of an International Conference held at the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001. — Oxford: Oxbow, 2003. — XII, 266 p. For a century following the end of the Lamian War in 322 B.C., Athens' harbour at Pireus was almost constantly occupied by a Macedonian garrison. The Macedonian presence dealt a crucial blow to Athenian independence and Athenian democracy,...
Oxford University Press, 2011. — 416 p. Landed wealth was crucial for the economies of all Greek city-states and, despite its peculiarities, Athens was no exception in that respect. This monograph is the first exhaustive treatment of sacred and public - in other words the non-private - real property in Athens. Following a survey of modern scholarship on the topic, Papazarkadas...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972, reissued with add. and corr. 1985. — XV, 357 p. A revised edition of the one of the most important works on political institutions of Athens.
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 320 p. In Athens and the Cyclades: Economic Strategies 540-314 BC , Brian Rutishauser examines the history and economy of the island region known as the Cyclades during the late sixth to late fourth centuries BC. While certain aspects of geography in the Cyclades remained constant through ancient Greek history, the islanders were able to adapt...
Peter Siewert (2002) Ostrakismos-Testimonien . die Zeugnisse antiker Autoren, der Inschriften und Ostraka über das athenische Scherbengericht aus vorhellenistischer Zeit (487-322 v. Chr.) - Franz Steiner Verlag Eine 15-kopfige Arbeitsgruppe legt erstmals alle literarischen Zeugnisse aus der Zeit von 487-322 v. Chr. vor - einschliesslich der 120 z.T. unpublizierten Ostraka,...
Chapel Hill - London: University of North Carolina Press, 1989. — LXXXV, 415 p. One of the best commentaries on Plutarch's biographies. Very important for the history of Athens in the age of Pericles.
Princeton University Press, 1997. — 300 p. Father-son conflict was for the Athenians a topic of widespread interest that touched the core of both family and political life, particularly during times of social upheaval. In this vivid account of the intermingling of politics and the private sphere in classical Athens, Barry Strauss explores the tensions experienced by a society...
Harvard University Press, 2018. — 400 p. Alcibiades was one of the most dazzling figures of the Golden Age of Athens. A ward of Pericles and a friend of Socrates, he was spectacularly rich, bewitchingly handsome and charismatic, a skilled general, and a ruthless politician. He was also a serial traitor, infamous for his dizzying changes of loyalty in the Peloponnesian War....
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2004. — 112 p. The fifth century BC witnessed not only the emergence of one of the first democracies, but also the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars. John Thorley provides a concise analysis of the development and operation of Athenian democracy against this backdrop. Taking into account both primary source material and the work of modern historians,...
2nd Edition — Routledge, 2004. — 112 p. The fifth century BC witnessed not only the emergence of one of the first democracies, but also the Persian and the Peloponnesian Wars. John Thorley provides a concise analysis of the development and operation of Athenian democracy against this backdrop. Taking into account both primary source material and the work of modern historians,...
Princeton: American School of Classical Stidies at Athens, 1975. — (Hesperia Supplement 14). Using inscriptions recording council membership recovered by excavations in the Athenian Agora, the author presents a detailed reconstruction of the political geography of Attica. The reforms of the 6th-century B.C. politician Cleisthenes organized Athenian citizens into ten tribes...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 382 p. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) profoundly shaped one of the most eventful epochs in antiquity. His political career spanned three decades, during which time Greece fell victim to Macedonian control, first under Philip II and then Alexander the Great. Demosthenes' courageous defiance of Macedonian imperialism cost him his life but earned for him...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 382 p. Demosthenes (384-322 BC) profoundly shaped one of the most eventful epochs in antiquity. His political career spanned three decades, during which time Greece fell victim to Macedonian control, first under Philip II and then Alexander the Great. Demosthenes' courageous defiance of Macedonian imperialism cost him his life but earned for him...
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