Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece

by Roger Brock (Editor), Stephen Hodkinson (Editor)

Overview

This volume contains eighteen essays by established and younger historians that examine non-democratic alternative political systems and ideologies—oligarchies, monarchies, mixed constitutions—along with diverse forms of communal and regional associations such as ethnoi, amphiktyonies, and confederacies. The papers, which span the length and breadth of the Hellenic world highlight the immense political flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198152200
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/08/2001
Pages:	412
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

University of Leeds

University of Manchester

Table of Contents

Alternatives to Athens, Introduction, Brock & Hodkinson1. Theognis - Alternative to Democracy, Lane Fox2. Megara's Mafiosi, Van Wees3. Exchange and Stasis in Mytilene, Spencer4. Cyrene, Typical, or Atypical?, Mitchell5. Monarchy in Athenian Democracy, Brand6. Oligarchies in Athens, Rhodes7. Syracusan Democracy, Rutter8. Aristotle's Mixed Constitution, Lintott9. The Polis in Italy, Lomas10. Cities and the Athenian Ethnos, Morgan11. Space Hierarchy and Community, Archibald12. The Molossian Ethnos, State, and Monarchy, Davies13. Homeric and Macedonian Kingship, Carlier14. The 'Kings' of Achaemenid Lycia, Keen15. The Pre-polis Polis, Forrest16. Delphi and her External Relations, Arrush17. Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy, Roy18. Federalism in West Crete, Sekinde

Editorial Reviews

"A cogent, wide-ranging introduction to the scope and scale of political expression in the ancient Greek world that will be warmly welcomed by ancient historians and classical scholars alike."—Bryn Mawr Classical Review

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