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Author : Marek Węcowski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780192587558
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Athenian Ostracism and Its Original Purpose written by Marek Węcowski and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sara Forsdyke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400826861
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy written by Sara Forsdyke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its role as a context for the ongoing negotiation of democratic values. The first part of the book demonstrates the strong connection between exile and political power in archaic Greece. In Athens and elsewhere, elites seized power by expelling their rivals. Violent intra-elite conflict of this sort was a highly unstable form of "politics that was only temporarily checked by various attempts at elite self-regulation. A lasting solution to the problem of exile was found only in the late sixth century during a particularly intense series of violent expulsions. At this time, the Athenian people rose up and seized simultaneously control over decisions of exile and political power. The close connection between political power and the power of expulsion explains why ostracism was a central part of the democratic reforms. Forsdyke shows how ostracism functioned both as a symbol of democratic power and as a key term in the ideological justification of democratic rule. Crucial to the author's interpretation is the recognition that ostracism was both a remarkably mild form of exile and one that was infrequently used. By analyzing the representation of exile in Athenian imperial decrees, in the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, and in tragedy and oratory, Forsdyke shows how exile served as an important term in the debate about the best form of rule.
Author : Marek Węcowski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192587560
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose written by Marek Węcowski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ostracism is by far the most emblematic institution of ancient Athenian democracy. This volume offers a reassessment of recently found ostraka (or potsherds, on which the names of the 'candidates' for exile were inscribed by citizens) from several Greek cities outside Athens, a thorough reconstruction of the history and of the procedure of ostracism in Athens, and a comprehensive account of the political circumstances of the introduction of the law on ostracism by Cleisthenes in 508/507 BCE. Marek Węcowski's original study focuses not only on the final stage, the day of the vote, but on the entire operation and procedure of ostracisation. Tracing the logic of the political play in Athens between the opening and final stages of ostracism, Węcowski argues that Athenian ostracism was a mechanism devised to impose compromise on the main players in Athenian political life, thereby avoiding the punishment of political elites by exile of leading politicians resulting from unpredictable votes by the citizenry. To support this hypothesis, Węcowski turns to the theory of the 'evolution of cooperation' as formulated by the American mathematician and political scientist Robert Axelrod based on the iterated prisoner's dilemma in game theory, applied as a probabilistic analogy to the dynamics of Athenian political life under democracy.
Download or read book Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined.
Author : Rudi Thomsen
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Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Ostracism written by Rudi Thomsen and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kurt A. Raaflaub
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520245628
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)
Download or read book Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece written by Kurt A. Raaflaub and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2007-01-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a state-of-the-art debate about the origins of Athenian democracy by five eminent scholars. The result is a stimulating, critical exploration and interpretation of the extant evidence on this intriguing and important topic. The authors address such questions as: Why was democracy first realized in ancient Greece? Was democracy “invented” or did it evolve over a long period of time? What were the conditions for democracy, the social and political foundations that made this development possible? And what factors turned the possibility of democracy into necessity and reality? The authors first examine the conditions in early Greek society that encouraged equality and “people’s power.” They then scrutinize, in their social and political contexts, three crucial points in the evolution of democracy: the reforms connected with the names of Solon, Cleisthenes, and Ephialtes in the early and late sixth and mid-fifth century. Finally, an ancient historian and a political scientist review the arguments presented in the previous chapters and add their own perspectives, asking what lessons we can draw today from the ancient democratic experience. Designed for a general readership as well as students and scholars, the book intends to provoke discussion by presenting side by side the evidence and arguments that support various explanations of the origins of democracy, thus enabling readers to join in the debate and draw their own conclusions.
Author : Geoffrey de Ste. Croix
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199255172
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book Athenian Democratic Origins written by Geoffrey de Ste. Croix and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004-03-25 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle's use of sources in The Constitution of the Athenians, on which so much of our knowledge of Athenian constitutional history depends. Ste. Croix also argues that commercial factors had much less influence on Greek politics than modern scholars tend to assume, and that there was no such thing in any Greek state as a `commercial aristocracy'. As always, he works out these general positions with the utmost lucidity and pungency, and in meticulous detail. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays by a great radical historian will still constitute a major contribution to contemporary debate. The editors and other specialists have supplied an updating Afterword to each chapter, and the book contains a thorough index.
Author : Nigel Guy Wilson
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415973342
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece written by Nigel Guy Wilson and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.
Author : Plutarch
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1802067299
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Rise And Fall of Athens written by Plutarch and published by Random House. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? For Plutarch the answer lay not in great victories, but in moral strengths. In these nine biographies, taken from his Parallel Lives, Plutarch illustrates the rise and fall of Athens through nine lives, from the legendary days of Theseus, the city's founder, through Solon, Themistocles, Aristides, Cimon, Pericles, Nicias and Alcibiades, to the razing of its walls by Lysander. Plutarch ultimately held the weaknesses of its leaders responsible for the city's fall. His work is invaluable for its imaginative reconstruction of the past, and profound insights into human life and achievement. This edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation, fully revised with a new introduction and notes by John Marincola, now also contains Plutarch's attack on the first historian, 'On the Malice of Herodotus'.
Author : Loren J. Samons, II
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107110149
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Pericles and the Conquest of History written by Loren J. Samons, II and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loren J. Samons, II examines the events of Athenian history to understand the actions and legacy of this pivotal historical figure.
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Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (463 download)
Download or read book The Origin of Ostracism written by and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mabel L. Lang
Publisher : ASCSA
ISBN 13 : 9780876616420
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (164 download)
Download or read book The Athenian Citizen written by Mabel L. Lang and published by ASCSA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using archaeological evidence from excavations at the heart of ancient Athens, this volume shows how tribal identity was central to all aspects of civic life, guiding the reader through the duties of citizenship as soldier in times of war and as juror during the peace.
Author : George Boys-Stones
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019160870X
Total Pages : 912 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies written by George Boys-Stones and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-08-20 with total page 912 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies is a unique collection of some seventy articles which together explore the ways in which ancient Greece has been, is, and might be studied. It is intended to inform its readers, but also, importantly, to inspire them, and to enable them to pursue their own research by introducing the primary resources and exploring the latest agenda for their study. The emphasis is on the breadth and potential of Hellenic Studies as a flourishing and exciting intellectual arena, and also upon its relevance to the way we think about ourselves today.
Author : Gabriel Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521522106
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (221 download)
Download or read book Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City written by Gabriel Herman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new interpretation of Greek xenia, or 'guest-friendship'.
Author : Georg Friedrich Schömann
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Athenian Constitutional History written by Georg Friedrich Schömann and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Baddeley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350015172
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)
Download or read book OCR Ancient History GCSE Component 1 written by Sam Baddeley and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is endorsed by OCR and supports the specification for GCSE Ancient History (first teaching September 2017). It covers the whole of Component 1, both the compulsory Period Study and the three optional Depth Studies: Period Study: The Persian Empire, 559–465 BC by James Renshaw Depth Study: From Tyranny to Democracy, 546–483 BC by Sam Baddeley Depth Study: Athens in the Age of Pericles, 462–429 BC by Paul Fowler and James Renshaw Depth Study: Alexander the Great, 356–323 BC by Lucy Nicholas Was propaganda Persia's greatest weapon? How did Athens create democracy? Does Pericles' Athens deserve to be remembered as civilised or barbaric? How did Alexander dominate the ancient world by the age of 32? This book raises these and other key questions. GCSE students and their teachers will explore key political and social developments of the Greek and Persian worlds through the eyes of ancient historians and archaeology. This book invites us to look at ancient societies in a new light and helps explain the development of the modern world. The ideal preparation for the final examinations, all content is presented by experts and experienced teachers in a clear and accessible narrative. Ancient literary and visual sources are described and analysed, with supporting images. Helpful student features include study questions, further reading, and boxes focusing in on key people, events and terms. Practice questions and exam guidance prepare students for assessment. A Companion Website is available at www.bloomsbury.com/anc-hist-gcse.
Author : George Willis Botsford
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Development of the Athenian Constitution written by George Willis Botsford and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
