The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond: Essays in Honour of John K. Davies

by Zosia Archibald (Editor), Jan Haywood (Editor)

Overview

The pioneering ideas of John Kenyon Davies, one of the most significant Ancient Historians of the past half century, are celebrated in this collection of essays. A distinguished cast of contributors, who include Alain Bresson, Nick Fisher, Edward Harris, John Prag, Robin Osborne, and Sally Humphreys, focus tightly on the nexus of socio-political and economic problems that have preoccupied Davies since the publication of his defining work Athenian Propertied Families in 1971. The scope of Davies' interest has ranged widely in conceptual, and chronological, as well as geographical terms, and the essays here reflect many of his long-term concerns with the writing of Greek history, its methods and materials.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910589731
Publisher:	Classical Press of Wales, The
Publication date:	12/31/2018
Pages:	300
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Zosia Archibald is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology, University of Liverpool. She is Chair of the Committee for Archaeology, British School at Athens. She was British Director of the Pistiros Project in central Bulgaria (1995-2013), and is co-Director of the Olynthos Project, Chalkidice, Greece (20142019). She has co-edited three volumes of papers on Hellenistic economies, is the author of Ancient Economies of the Northern Aegean (2013), and of the chapter on Macedonia in the forthcoming Oxford History of the Ancient Greek World. Jan Haywood is Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University (UK). His research includes ancient Greek historiography, divination, and the ancient and modern reception of the Trojan War tradition. He is author (with Naoise Mac Sweeney) of Homer's Iliad and the Trojan War: Dialogues on Tradition (Bloomsbury, 2018), and is preparing a monograph Herodotus and his Sources. Jan Haywood is also Reviews Editor for the Journal of Hellenic Studies.

Table of Contents

Preface Zosia Archibald Jan Haywood vii

1 Imaginary propertied families: kinship in epic poetry S. C. Humphreys 1

2 'Charis, sweetest of gods': wealth and reciprocity in Classical Athens Nick Fisher 49

3 Herodotus and the social contexts of memory in Ancient Greece: the individual historian and his community Edward M. Harris 79

4 From Croesus to Pausanias: tragic individuals in early Greek historiography Jan Haywood 115

5 Euergetism and the public economy of Classical Athens: the initiative of the deme Robin Osborne 147

6 The priesthoods of the Eteoboutadai Stephen Lambert 163

7 Tegeas from Torone and some truths about ancient markets Zosia Halina Archibald 177

8 At tire roots of a revolution. Land ownership, citizenship and military sendee in Macedonia before and after Philip II Manuela Mari 213

9 A twenty-first century Philippic A. J. N. W. Prag J. H. Musgrave R. A. H. Neave 241

10 Apollo, the tutelary god of the Seleucids, and Demodamas of Miletus Krzusztof Nawotka 261

11 From Xerxes to Mithridates: kings, coins and economic life at Kelainai-Apameia Alain Bresson 285

12 John Davies, Greek historian P.J. Rhodes 311

Bibliography 317

Index of sources 325

General Index 331