Athenian Democratic Origins: and other essays
This is a defense of the Athenian democracy by a great radical historian. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix shows how even its oddest features made sense, and illustrates the different factors influencing Athenian politics—for instance, trade and commercial interests mattered very little. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays remain fresh and innovative.
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Athenian Democratic Origins: and other essays
This is a defense of the Athenian democracy by a great radical historian. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix shows how even its oddest features made sense, and illustrates the different factors influencing Athenian politics—for instance, trade and commercial interests mattered very little. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays remain fresh and innovative.
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Athenian Democratic Origins: and other essays

Athenian Democratic Origins: and other essays

Athenian Democratic Origins: and other essays

Athenian Democratic Origins: and other essays

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This is a defense of the Athenian democracy by a great radical historian. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix shows how even its oddest features made sense, and illustrates the different factors influencing Athenian politics—for instance, trade and commercial interests mattered very little. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays remain fresh and innovative.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780199255177
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 05/27/2004
Pages: 472
Product dimensions: 8.60(w) x 5.80(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Geoffrey de Ste. Croix was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford from 1953 until 1977. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972. He published Origins of the Peloponnesian War in 1972 and The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World in 1981; the latter book was translated into Spanish and Greek, and won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial prize for 1982.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introduction1. The Solonian Census Classes and the Qualifications for Cavalry and Hoplite Service2. Five Notes on Solon's Constitution3. Solon, the Horoi and the Hektemoroi4. Cleisthenes I: The Constitution5. Cleisthenes II: Ostracism, Archons, and Strategoi6. The Athenian Citizenship Laws7. Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia and Early Athenian History8. The Metra in Aristotle, Eth. Nic. V.vii.1134b 35-35a39. How Far was Trade a Cause of Early Greek Colonization? 10. But What About Aegina? 11. Herodotus and King Cleomenes of SpartaIndex
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