Tuduv, 2003. — 293 p. Dieses Buch entstand aus dem Wunsch heraus, den Stellenwert der ortsansässigen Fremden in der athenischen Gesellschaft näher zu erfassen. Im Gegensatz zu früheren Arbeiten, wo hauptsächlich juristische Aspekte der Metökie behandelt wurden, wird eine mentalitätshistorische Sichtweise geboten. Die Metöken standen über ihre rechtlich fixierten Verpflichtungen...
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...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 270 p. Much has been written about the world’s first democracy, but no book so far has been dedicated solely to the study of enmity in ancient Athens. Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens is a long-overdue analysis of the competitive power dynamics of Athenian honor and the potential problems these feuds created for democracies. The citizens...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 270 p. Much has been written about the world’s first democracy, but no book so far has been dedicated solely to the study of enmity in ancient Athens. Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens is a long-overdue analysis of the competitive power dynamics of Athenian honor and the potential problems these feuds created for democracies. The citizens...
University of Texas Press, 2015. — 270 p. Much has been written about the world’s first democracy, but no book so far has been dedicated solely to the study of enmity in ancient Athens. Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens is a long-overdue analysis of the competitive power dynamics of Athenian honor and the potential problems these feuds created for democracies. The citizens...
University of Michigan Press, 2003. — 307 p. This book rewrites the political and public history of early ancient Athens. In barely the space of one generation, Athens was transformed from a conventional city-state into something completely new--a region-state on a scale previously unthinkable. This book sets out to answer a seemingly simple question: How and when did the...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2018. — 300 p. The pioneering ideas of John Kenyon Davies, one of the most significant Ancient Historians of the past half century, are celebrated in this collection. A distinguished cast of contributors, including Alain Bresson, Nick Fisher, Edward Harris, John Prag, Robin Osborne, and Sally Humphreys, focus on the nexus of socio-political and...
The Classical Press of Wales, 2018. — 300 p. The pioneering ideas of John Kenyon Davies, one of the most significant Ancient Historians of the past half century, are celebrated in this collection. A distinguished cast of contributors, including Alain Bresson, Nick Fisher, Edward Harris, John Prag, Robin Osborne, and Sally Humphreys, focus on the nexus of socio-political and...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 344 p. The seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. Conventional narratives argue that goods and knowledge flowed from East to West through cosmopolitan elites. Rejecting this explanation, Athens at the Margins proposes a new...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 344 p. The seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. Conventional narratives argue that goods and knowledge flowed from East to West through cosmopolitan elites. Rejecting this explanation, Athens at the Margins proposes a new...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 344 p. The seventh century BC in ancient Greece is referred to as the Orientalizing period because of the strong presence of Near Eastern elements in art and culture. Conventional narratives argue that goods and knowledge flowed from East to West through cosmopolitan elites. Rejecting this explanation, Athens at the Margins proposes a new...
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...
Franz Steiner, 2015. — 200 p. — (Historia – Einzelschriften 235). This book offers a new study of the political and military history of the Greek Aegean between the Peloponnesian War and the Peace of Antalcidas. Following the career of Conon, the Athenian admiral who became commander of the Persian fleet after his city's defeat by Sparta, this volume offers a new perspective on...
Preface by Robin Osborne, University of Cambridge. — Cambridge University Press, 2025. — 392 p. - Offers a fresh and innovational interpretation of a key event in Athenian political history: the civil war of 404/403 BC and the refoundation of democracy - Creative reflections on the past are now seen to have much contemporary resonance - Boldly and controversially argues for...
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 — 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 known...
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...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1978. — 161 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 33). This study describes the some details about Athenian law's regulations with members of the Delian League. This League founded in 478 BC, was an association of Greek city-states, with the number of members numbering between 150 and 330 under the leadership of Athens, whose purpose was to continue fighting the...
Oxford University Press, 2014. — 424 p. In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to reinterpret courage as a specifically democratic virtue. Ranging from Thucydides and Aristophanes to the Greek tragedians and Plato, Balot shows that the ancient Athenians constructed a novel vision of...
Princeton University Press, 2001. — 280 p. In this original and rewarding combination of intellectual and political history, Ryan Balot offers a thorough historical and sociological interpretation of classical Athens centered on the notion of greed. Integrating ancient philosophy, poetry, and history, and drawing on modern political thought, the author demonstrates that the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 264 p. Investigates the construction of democratic ideology in Classical Athens through a study of the social memory of Athens’ mythical past. - Proposes a novel approach to Athenian democratic ideology that opens new frontiers of investigation in ancient history and the social sciences - The introduction clearly sets out the aims and...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 345 p. What did citizenship really mean in classical Athens? It is conventionally understood as characterised by holding political office. Since only men could do so, only they were considered to be citizens, and the community (polis) has appeared primarily as the scene of men's political actions. However, Athenian law defined citizens not by...
Cambridge University Press, 2017. — 345 p. What did citizenship really mean in classical Athens? It is conventionally understood as characterised by holding political office. Since only men could do so, only they were considered to be citizens, and the community (polis) has appeared primarily as the scene of men's political actions. However, Athenian law defined citizens not by...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1998. — 147 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 120). "Die wissenschaftliche Welt wie alle an der Geschichte Griechenlands im klassischen Zeitalter Interessierten überhaupt, haben B. für einen wertvollen und originellen Beitrag zur althistorischen Diskussion, vor allem aber für eine nützliche und konzise Monographie über eine trotz reicher Detailforschung nur...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 298 p. Glenn R. Bugh provides a comprehensive discussion of a subject that has not been treated in full since the last century: the history of the Athenian cavalry. Integrated into a narrative history of the cavalry from the Archaic period through the Hellenistic age is a detailed analysis of a military and social organization the members of...
Routledge, 2004. — 632 p. Athens: Its Rise and Fall, originally published in 1837, is the most important and readable of the Victorian histories of ancient Greece. It stands alongside Macauley and Carlyle as a great historical work of British Romanticism, and anticipates the thinking of George Grote and John Stuart Mill on ancient Greek history by over a decade. Originally...
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 networks,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1996. — 298 S. — (Historia Einzelschriften 101). 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...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 226 p. Athenian democracy was distinguished from other ancient constitutions by its emphasis on freedom. This was understood, Naomi T. Campa argues, as being able to do 'whatever one wished,' a widely attested phrase. Citizen agency and power constituted the core of democratic ideology and institutions. Rather than create anarchy, as ancient...
Cambridge University Press, 2024. — 226 p. Athenian democracy was distinguished from other ancient constitutions by its emphasis on freedom. This was understood, Naomi T. Campa argues, as being able to do 'whatever one wished,' a widely attested phrase. Citizen agency and power constituted the core of democratic ideology and institutions. Rather than create anarchy, as ancient...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 200 p. For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period Athens was the cultural centre of Greece and one of the major Greek...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017. — 200 p. For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period Athens was the cultural centre of Greece and one of the major Greek...
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 200 p. For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period Athens was the cultural centre of Greece and one of the...
2nd Edition. — Bloomsbury Academic, 2017. — 200 p. For two centuries classical Athens enjoyed almost uninterrupted democratic government. This was not a parliamentary democracy of the modern sort but a direct democracy in which all citizens were free to participate in the business of government. Throughout this period Athens was the cultural centre of Greece and one of the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1995. — 487 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 145). This work surveys all available evidence on Athenian settlements and settlers of the fourth century B.C., calling several conventional interpretations about them into question, through a rigorous preference for evidence over speculation. Three chapters trace a chronology of events relating to the...
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, -263p.
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 were...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 225 p. This book seeks to understand Xenophon as an elite Athenian writing largely for an elite Athenian audience in the first half of the fourth century BC. It argues that Xenophon calls on men of his own class to set aside their assumptions of superiority based on birth or wealth and to reinvent themselves as individuals who can provide...
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...
Pegasus Books, 2021. — 624 p. — ISBN-13 978-1643138756. A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and...
Apollo, 2021. — 624 p. A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and symbolically potent panoramas of any...
Apollo, 2021. — 624 p. A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one of the most recognizable and symbolically potent panoramas of any...
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...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 262 p. This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. Following the author's earlier book on Athenian banking, this work analyzes erotic business at Athens in the context of the Athenian economy. For the Athenians, the social acceptability and...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 262 p. This is a pioneering study that examines the sale of sex in classical Athens from a commercial (rather than from a cultural or moral) perspective. Following the author's earlier book on Athenian banking, this work analyzes erotic business at Athens in the context of the Athenian economy. For the Athenians, the social acceptability and...
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...
Hackett Publishing Company, 1992. — 225 p. In this powerful contribution to our understanding of politics in fifth-century Athens, Connor constructs models of Athenian political groupings to explain the rise of the "new politicians," young men who launched a new kind of democracy by appealing to the citizenry at large. With Pericles as prototype and Cleon as exemplar of the new...
Brill Academic Pub, 2008. — 283 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 293; Mnemosyne, Supplements, 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,...
Bucknell University Press, 2014. — 494 p. The fourteen essays in this volume share new and evolving knowledge, theories, and observations about the city of Athens or the region of Attica. The contents include essays on topography, architecture, religion and cult, sculpture, ceramic studies, iconography, epigraphy, trade, and drama. This volume is dedicated to John McK. Camp II,...
Brill, 1984. — 56 p. — (Mnemosyne. Supplements 81). The purposes of this short monograph are to identify and analyze the problems of Athenian society with which the last two extant plays of Aristophanes - the Ekklesiazousai and the Ploutos - are concerned, as well as to examine the playright's views on the essence of these problems and on attempts to find satisfactory solutions...
St. Martin's Press, 2015. — 400 p. The lifestyle of the classical Greeks often seems disappointingly modest when compared to those of other legendary civilizations. Where are the marble floors, the pillared halls, the gilden rooms? Even the Athenians, the richest and most poweful of the Greeks, were said by one contemporary to dress no better than slaves. Athenians, however,...
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971. — 655 p. Abbreviations. Note on format. The register. The register - demotics, broken names, non-citizens, and lost names. Addenda. Check-list, arranged by deme. Index locorum. General index. Stemma-tables.
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 to...
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...
The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2019. — 621 p. — ISBN13: 978-1938770159. This volume is one of the most important works on ancient Athens in the last fifty years. The focus is on the early city, from the end of the Bronze Age--ca. 1200 BCE--to the Archaic period, when Athens became the largest city of the Classical period, only to be destroyed by the Persians in...
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...
De Gruyter, 1995. — 334 p. — (Untersuchungen Zur Antiken Literatur Und Geschichte 46). Die Niederlage im Peloponnesischen Krieg und die Auflösung des Delisch-Attischen Seebundes war für Athen ein schwerer Schlag. Aber Spartas rigoroses Durchsetzen seiner Hegemonialpolitik führte zu einer immer größer werdenden Ablehnung in Griechenland, so dass Athen wieder die Möglichkeit...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999. — 491 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 137). Wie lange dauerte die klassische Demokratie in Athen? Herkömmlich datiert man ihr Ende auf 322 v.Chr. – aufgrund der Niederlage Athens gegen die Makedonen. Bedingt außenpolitische Machtlosigkeit ein Ende der demokratischen Verfassung? Wenn ja, sofort oder erst nach einiger Zeit? Wenn nach einiger Zeit, wann...
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...
University of Michigan Press, 2008. — 256 p. Francis M. Dunn's Present Shock in Late Fifth-Century Greece examines the widespread social and cultural disorientation experienced by Athenians in a period that witnessed the revolution of 411 B.C.E. and the military misadventures in 413 and 404---a disturbance as powerful as that described in Alvin Toffler's Future Shock. The late...
Routledge, 2023. — 362 p. In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy. This book provides a thorough analysis of this transformation and the functioning of the Athenian economy during the...
Routledge, 2023. — 362 p. In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy. This book provides a thorough analysis of this transformation and the functioning of the Athenian economy during the...
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 concentrating...
University of California Press, 2010. — 272 p. Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy's first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers...
University of California Press, 2010. — 272 p. Civic Rites explores the religious origins of Western democracy by examining the government of fifth-century BCE Athens in the larger context of ancient Greece and the eastern Mediterranean. Deftly combining history, politics, and religion to weave together stories of democracy’s first leaders and critics, Nancy Evans gives readers...
Classical Press of Wales, 2019. — 280 p. Research into the mechanisms and the morality of Athenian hegemony is now perhaps livelier than ever. Of particular importance are the methods by which Athens drew money from the Aegean world with which to fund a vast fleet, to facilitate her own demokratia and to create ambitious public buildings still visible today. This collection of...
Classical Press of Wales, 2019. — 280 p. Research into the mechanisms and the morality of Athenian hegemony is now perhaps livelier than ever. Of particular importance are the methods by which Athens drew money from the Aegean world with which to fund a vast fleet, to facilitate her own demokratia and to create ambitious public buildings still visible today. This collection of...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. — 648 p. Was Athens an imperialistic state, deserving all the reputation for exploitation that adjective can imply, or was the Athenian alliance, even at its most unequal, still characterized by a convergence of interests? The Power of Money explores monetary and metrological policy at Athens as a way of discerning the character of...
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.
Les Belles Lettres, 1977. — 588 p. La volumineuse thèse de Madame Follet met en œuvre la documentation épigraphique qui se situe entre l'avènement de Nerva (96) et la destruction d'Athènes par les Hérules en 267. Le livre est touffu et serré, à l'image même d'une documentation abondante et variée, où les problèmes foisonnent. Les axes de recherche naissent des inscriptions...
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...
Leiden: Brill, 2019. — 310 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 13). Based on the comprehensive study of the epigraphic and literary evidence, this book challenges the almost universally-held assumptions of modern scholarship on the date of origin, the function, and the purpose of the Athenian ephebeia. It offers a detailed reconstruction of the institution, which...
Routledge, 2009. — 144 p. Originally published in 1953. The return to the "ancestral constitution" was a major issue in Athenian politics in the period of the revolution of 411 and 404 B.C. This book examines the scope and import of the question of the "ancestral constitution". Chapter 1 is a study of Kleitophon’s Rider nd the tradition of Solon and Kleisthenes. Chapter 2 is a...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. — 329 p. To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. Known as trierarchs literally, ship commanders they bore the expenses of maintaining and repairing the ships, as well as recruiting and provisioning their crews. The...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. — 328 p. To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. Known as trierarchs - literally, ship commanders - they bore the expenses of maintaining and repairing the ships, as well as recruiting and provisioning their crews. The...
University of Texas Press, 2020. — 208 p. The democratic legal system created by the Athenians was completely controlled by ordinary citizens, with no judges, lawyers, or jurists involved. It placed great importance on the litigants’ rhetorical performances. Did this make it nothing more than a rhetorical contest judged by largely uneducated citizens that had nothing to do with...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017. — 184 p. Between June 480 and August 479 BC, tens of thousands of Athenians evacuated, following King Xerxes’ victory at the Battle of Thermopylae. Abandoning their homes and ancestral tombs in the wake of the invading Persian army, they sought refuge abroad. Women and children were sent to one safe haven, the elderly to another, while all...
University of Texas Press, 2021. — 242 p. Oratory is a valuable source for reconstructing the practices, legalities, and attitudes surrounding sexual labor in classical Athens. It provides evidence of male and female sex laborers, sex slaves, brothels, sex traffickers, the cost of sex, contracts for sexual labor, and manumission practices for sex slaves. Yet the witty, wealthy,...
Harvard University Press, 1997. — 405 p. The conquests of Alexander the Great transformed the Greek world into a complex of monarchies and vying powers, a vast sphere in which the Greek city-states struggled to survive. This is the compelling story of one city that despite long periods of subjugation persisted as a vital social entity throughout the Hellenistic age. Christian...
Viking Adult, 2009. — 432 p. The navy created by the people of Athens in Ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come. The Athenian navy built a civilization, empowered the world's first democracy, and led a band of ordinary citizens on a voyage of discovery that altered the course of...
Viking Adult, 2009. — 432 p. The navy created by the people of Athens in Ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come. The Athenian navy built a civilization, empowered the world's first democracy, and led a band of ordinary citizens on a voyage of discovery that altered the course of...
Brill Academic Publishers, 1998. — 248 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 182). This study of the Athenian strategia is concerned with identifying the locus of military authority in the Athenian polis . Consideration of the role played by generals in the deliberative and final stages of military expeditions and of the relationship between strategoi and their subordinates, colleagues,...
Brill, 1998. — xviii, 250 p. — (Mnemosyne: Supplements 182). — ISBN 90-04-10900-5. This study of the Athenian strategia is concerned with identifying the locus of military authority in the Athenian polis. Consideration of the role played by generals in the deliberative and final stages of military expeditions and of the relationship between strategoi and their subordinates,...
Genève: Fondation Hardt, 2010. — xxxviii, 417 p. Mogens Herman Hansen. Introduction Pasquale Pasquino. Democracy Ancient and Modern: Divided Power Christian Mann. Politische Partizipation und die Vorstellung des Menschen ais zoon politikon Karen Piepenbrink. Bürgerrecht in der Griechischen Polis und im Modernen Staat Oswyn Murray. Modern Perceptions of Ancient Realities from...
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...
Routledge, 2018. — 202 p. During the heady, democratic days of the fifth and fourth centuries, the poorer members of Athenian society, the lower two classes of zeugitai and thetes, enjoyed an unprecedented dominance in both domestic and foreign politics. At home, the participatory nature of the constitution required their presence not only in the lawcourts and assembly, but...
Oxford University Press, 1995. — 248 p. Filling a major gap in scholarship, this is the first full-length study of the Athenian politician Aeschines. Along with Isocrates, Aeschines was one of the most prominent Athenian politicians who advocated friendly ties with the Macedonian king Philip II. Though overshadowed by his famous rival Demosthenes, Aeschines played a key role in...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 518 p. This volume brings together essays on Athenian law by Edward M. Harris, who challenges much of the recent scholarship on this topic. Presenting a balanced analysis of the legal system in ancient Athens, Harris stresses the importance of substantive issues and their contribution to our understanding of different types of legal...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 496 p. The Rule of Law in Action in Democratic Athens examines how the Athenians attempted to enforce and apply the law when judging disputes in court. Recent scholarship has paid considerable attention to the practice and execution of Greek law. However, much of this work has left several flawed assumptions unchallenged, such as that Athenian...
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2001. — 405 p. — ISBN-13 978-3631379707. Die Sizilienkatastrophe von 413 v. Chr. zog eine tiefgehende Erschütterung der Demokratie in Athen nach sich, in deren Folge im Jahre 411 eine oligarchische Umsturzbewegung die Oberhand gewann. Das daraus hervorgegangene Regime der «Vierhundert» hielt sich allerdings nur vier...
Brill, 2020. — 460 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 15). In The Springtime of the People: The Athenian Ephebeia and Citizen Training from Lykourgos to Augustus Thomas R. Henderson provides a new history of the Athenian ephebeia, a system of military, athletic, and moral instruction for new Athenian citizens. Characterized as a system of hoplite training with...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 496 p. How were moral ideas and behaviour in ancient Athens formulated and made manifest? How did democratic Athens defuse the inevitable tensions that surface in society? In this work, Professor Herman argues that rather than endorse the Mediterranean ethic of retaliation, democratic Athens looked to the courts to dispense justice. Drawing...
Oxford University Press, 1952. — 432 p. The democratic constitution in force at Athens during the fourth century until 322 is better known to us than any other in ancient Greece. Its component parts and their working are illuminated by the numerous decrees inscribed on stone which have been preserved and by copious references in the great orators ; moreover, the second part of...
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1971. — 240 p. The Acropolis or “upper city” of Athens is the most important surviving example of the many ages of Greek architecture, providing crucial evidence of the history of Greek civilization and culture. This second volume in the Ancient Sites series is designed to make available to everyone the fascinating story implicit in the ruins which...
De Gruyter, 2011. — 255 p. Images and inscriptions on monuments can show us how priests and cult personnel saw themselves and were viewed by others, illuminating the social and political identity of these figures within their polis. Dedications and donations by cult personnel, and the honours that they earned, demonstrate their claim on the city’s attention and their financial...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2004. — 330 p. — ISBN-13 978-0521527408. This abridged and revised edition of the author's monumental The Athenian Acropolis: History, Mythology and Archaeology from the Neolithic Era to the Present (Cambridge, 1998) focuses specifically on the development of the Acropolis in the fifth century BC and the building program initiated by Pericles....
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.
University of California Press, 1975. — 305 p. During the Greco-Persian Wars, Athens developed a large, powerful navy in the eastern Mediterranean Sea that defeated the even larger Persian Navy at the Battle of Salamis. The Athenian Navy consisted maximum of 80,000 crewing 400 ships. The backbone of the navy's manpower was a core of professional rowers drawn from the lower...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 270 p. The Athenian Reconciliation of 403 BCE was the pinnacle of amnesty agreements in Greek antiquity. It guaranteed lasting peace in a political community torn apart by civil conflict, because it recognised that for society to cohere, vindictive action over crimes which predated the exchange of oaths was legally inadmissible. This study...
Cambridge University Press, 2020. — 202 p. Coinage played a central role in the history of the Athenian naval empire of the fifth century BC. It made possible the rise of the empire itself, which was financed through tribute in coinage collected annually from the empire's approximately 200 cities. The empire's downfall was brought about by the wealth in Persian coinage that...
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 democratic Athens -...
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 democratic Athens -...
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 democratic...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 288 p. Konstantinos Kapparis challenges the traditional view that free women, citizen and metic, were excluded from the Athenian legal system. Looking at existing fragmentary evidence largely from speeches, Kapparis reveals that it unambiguously suggests that free women were far from invisible in the legal system and the life of the polis. In...
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...
Cambridge University Press, 2003. — 290 p. — ISBN-13 978-0521815239. Worshippers dedicated hundreds of statues to Athena on the Acropolis during the period between Solon's reforms and the end of the Peloponnesian War. This work brings together the evidence for statue dedications on the Acropolis in the sixth and fifth centuries B.C., including inscribed statues bases that...
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 361 p. In ancient Athenian democracy there were one hundred and thirty-nine official demes, or recognized population centres, which formed the foundation of the political system introduced by Kleisthenes in 508/7 BC. Enrolment in one of these demes was a prerequisite for citizenship and participation in the Athenian socio-political system....
Oxford University Press, 2013. — 368 p. n ancient Athenian democracy there were one hundred and thirty-nine official demes, or recognized population centres, which formed the foundation of the political system introduced by Kleisthenes in 508/7 BC. Enrolment in one of these demes was a prerequisite for citizenship and participation in the Athenian socio-political system....
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...
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 almost...
Cornell University Press, 1982. — 164 p. In 404 B.C., shortly after the end of the Peloponnesian War, oligarchic conspirators overthrew the Athenian democracy with the aid of Spartan general Lysander and appointed thirty men to rule the city. Over the next eight months, the thirty provoked violent resistance. They executed many prominent citizens and brought in a Spartan...
Cornell University Press, 1982. — 164 p. In 404 B.C., shortly after the end of the Peloponnesian War, oligarchic conspirators overthrew the Athenian democracy with the aid of Spartan general Lysander and appointed thirty men to rule the city. Over the next eight months, the thirty provoked violent resistance. They executed many prominent citizens and brought in a Spartan...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 296 p. Exploring the representations of the war dead in early Greek mythology, particularly the Homeric poems and the Epic Cycle, alongside iconographic images on black-figure pottery and the evidence of funerary monuments adorning the graves of early Athenian elites, this book provides much-needed insight into the customs associated with the war...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 296 p. Exploring the representations of the war dead in early Greek mythology, particularly the Homeric poems and the Epic Cycle, alongside iconographic images on black-figure pottery and the evidence of funerary monuments adorning the graves of early Athenian elites, this book provides much-needed insight into the customs associated with the war...
Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, 1994. — 176 s. — ISBN: 8323099529 Z sytuacją taką zetknąłem się przystępując do opracowania zagadnień związanych z korupcją w Atenach V i IV wieku p.n.e. Moim pierwotnym celem, nakreślonym w chwili rozpoczynania badań było poznanie form, przyczyn, funkcji oraz zmian jakościowych i ilościowych korupcji. Już we wstępnej fazie...
Brill, 2019. — 351 p. — (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 191). With Athena Itonia: Geography and Meaning of an Ancient Greek War Goddess Gerald V. Lalonde offers the first comprehensive history of the martial cult of Athena Itonia, from its origins in Greek prehistory to its demise in the Roman imperial age. The Itonian goddess appears first among the Thessalians and...
Brill, 2017. — 344 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 9). This book collects twelve papers which make original contributions to the historical interpretation of inscribed Athenian laws and decrees, with a core focus on significant historical shapes and patterns implicit in the corpus of the age of Demosthenes. Following a synthetic Introduction, two chapters...
Brill Academic, 2012. — 434 p. — (Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy 2). This book collects eighteen papers which make original contributions to the study of the inscribed laws and decrees of the city of Athens, 352/1-322/1 BC, the most richly documented period of the city's history. Originally published in academic journals, conference proceedings and Festschriften...
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2006. — 53 p. The 5th-century B.C. poet Pindar remarked on the rich sculptural decoration of the Athenian Agora, and, indeed, over 3,500 pieces of various types of sculpture have been uncovered during its excavation. This full-color guide sheds new light on the marble industry in and around the Agora, including rich evidence for...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 320 p. Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC provides a new analysis of the fifth-century BC Athenian empire, a central topic in ancient Greek history. Challenging orthodox approaches, which have been mostly empirical, monolithic and focused on Athens, the book argues that Athenian power was flexible and a matter of negotiation between the...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 320 p. Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC provides a new analysis of the fifth-century BC Athenian empire, a central topic in ancient Greek history. Challenging orthodox approaches, which have been mostly empirical, monolithic and focused on Athens, the book argues that Athenian power was flexible and a matter of negotiation between the...
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...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 278 p. Given their cultural, intellectual, and scientific achievements, surely the Greeks were able to approach their economic affairs in a rational manner like modern individuals? Since the nineteenth century, many scholars have argued that premodern people did not behave like modern businesspeople, and that the “stagnation” that...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 278 p. Given their cultural, intellectual, and scientific achievements, surely the Greeks were able to approach their economic affairs in a rational manner like modern individuals? Since the nineteenth century, many scholars have argued that premodern people did not behave like modern businesspeople, and that the “stagnation” that...
University of Michigan Press, 2021. — 278 p. Given their cultural, intellectual, and scientific achievements, surely the Greeks were able to approach their economic affairs in a rational manner like modern individuals? Since the nineteenth century, many scholars have argued that premodern people did not behave like modern businesspeople, and that the “stagnation” that...
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 University Press, 2020. — 1326 p. Decree-making is a defining aspect of ancient Greek political activity: it was the means by which city-state communities went about deciding to get things done. This two-volume work provides a new view of the decree as an institution within the framework of fourth-century Athenian democratic political activity. Volume 1 consists of a...
Routledge, 2017. — 135 p. The citizens of ancient Athens were directly responsible for the development and power of its democracy; but how did they learn about politics and what their roles were within it? In this volume Livingstone argues that learning about political praxis (how to be a citizen) was an integral part of the everyday life of ancient Athenians. In the streets,...
Souvenir Press, 2005. — 208 p. At Marathon, the site of the key battle between Greek and Persian armies, independence and a radical new political form were at stake. Through an overview of the religion, culture, and alliances among city-states, this historical account adds depth and context to the battle that safeguarded the autonomy of Greek life, allowed for the development...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 1987. — 169 p. — (Hermes-Einzelschriften 53). In seiner Schrift vom Staat der Athener hat Aristoteles uns den Vertrag überliefert, durch den – nach dem unglücklichen Ausgang des Peloponnesischen Krieges und den ihn begleitenden inneren Unruhen in Athen – die beiden Parteiungen der Bürgerkriegswirren (Demokraten und Oligarchen) im Jahre 403 zu einem...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. — 369 p. In the fifth century BC, the Athenian Empire dominated the politics and culture of the Mediterranean world. Historians, then and now, have been fascinated by that domination, and continue to grapple with the problem of explaining and analysing it. This book offers a comprehensive, and multi-faceted, analysis of the history and...
Mondadori, 2000. — 185 p. Com'è nato il concetto di democrazia? Da dove deriva il termine «maratona»? Perché usiamo le espressioni «spada di Damocle» o «filo d'Arianna»? In una affascinante narrazione tra mito e storia, incontriamo dei ed eroi, ma soprattutto poeti, filosofi e condottieri artefici di un'età irripetibile di tragedia, splendore e libertà. Sono loro i protagonisti...
Archaeopress, 2017. — 694 p. Greek text The present study examines the death of maidens in classical Athens, combining the study of Attic funerary iconography with research on classical Attic maiden burials, funerary inscriptions, tragic plays, as well as the relevant Attic myths. The iconography of funerary reliefs focuses on the idealized image of the deceased maiden, as well...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2016. — 202 p. — (Historia - Einzelschriften 247). Nel 'secolo breve' fra la pace di Nicia (421 a.C.) e la battaglia di Leuttra (371 a.C.), Callia (c. 455-365 a.C.) emerge quale personaggio chiave. Discende da una potente stirpe ateniese, arricchitasi enormemente grazie a sagaci stratagemmi. Nominato daduco, sacerdote d'alto rango, assume un ruolo centrale...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 528 p. As a speech-writer, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. He was a key player in Athens in the twilight of the city's independence, and is today a primary source for its history and society during that period. The Oxford Handbook of Demosthenes sets out to explore the many facets of his life, work,...
Cambridge University Press, 2016. — 255 p. Pericles was the most famous leader of the most famous ancient Greek democracy - and also the most controversial in his own time and ever since. Was he a brutal imperialist ready to oppress other Greeks, or a clear-eyed defender of Athens' need for power to survive in a relentlessly hostile world? How did his intellectual training in...
University of Michigan Press, 1996. — 578 p. One of the most important periods of Greek history lies between the Persian king Xerxes' defeat at Greek hands in 479 B.C.E. and the destruction of the power of Athens in 404 B.C.E. A major problem in this era is how and when Athens managed to transform the free alliance against Persia into an empire of Athenian subjects: The...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 375 p. — (Historia - Einzelschriften 257). Dass sich Reputation und Anerkennung in vormodernen Gesellschaften, darunter im spätklassischen Athen, über Kommunikation in der Öffentlichkeit konstituierten, gilt als unbestritten. Wie wirkten sich aber Präsenz und Agieren in bestimmten Räumen, etwa auf der Straße oder der Agora, auf die Reputation der...
Michael O’Mara Press, 2019. — 272 p. During the course of a day we meet 24 Athenians from all strata of society — from the slave to the politician, the fishmonger to the philosopher, the soldier to the vase painter — and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company. We encounter a different one of these characters — all from different walks of...
Oxford University Press, 2024. — 214 p. Although Phryne is considered the most famous of the many Greek courtesans who flocked to Athens during the fourth century BCE, there have been no modern attempts to reconstruct her life. It was not until the eighteenth century that artistic interest in her developed and her stories were continually reimagined and embellished. Artists and...
Clarendon Press, 1984. — 647 p. When I studied Greek history as an undergraduate an Oxford nearly fifty years ago it was reasonable to think that nothing significantly new could be written about the Athenian Empire. Thucydides' dark picture of the character of Athenian control was generally accepted, and what little could be gleaned from the sources about the methods employed...
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 620 p. A comprehensive re-examination of all the literary and epigraphic evidence, old and new, relating to the nature of Athenian imperialism in the fifth century BC. Russell Meiggs provides a comprehensive survey of the events, issues, and controversies of the period in Athens from 480 to 404 BC. His prose is easy to follow and his arguments...
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.
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2010. — 218 p. — (Historia - Einzelschriften 208). Beneath the shining world of the citizen of Classical Athens was the perilous shadow-realm of the resident foreigner, the metic. Emblematic of the status of metic was the requirement to pay a special metic tax, the metoikion. And if a metic failed to pay this tax, he or she would be sold into slavery, a...
Gorgias Press, 2009. — 92 p. This paper presents a thorough review of the physical remains and excavation history of the Athenian Acropolis from the Bronze Age to the early 20th Century.
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...
Routledge, 2020. — 212 p. This study centres on the rhetoric of the Athenian empire, Thucydides’ account of the Peloponnesian War and the notable discrepancies between his assessment of Athens and that found in tragedy, funeral orations and public art. Mills explores the contradiction between Athenian actions and their self-representation, arguing that Thucydides’ highly...
Yale University Press, 2015. — 368 p. A history of the world’s first democracy from its beginnings in Athens circa fifth century B.C. to its downfall 200 years later. The first democracy, established in ancient Greece more than 2,500 years ago, has served as the foundation for every democratic system of government instituted down the centuries. In this lively history, author...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 440 p. The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not a new phenomenon. Classical Athens, the birthplace of democracy and the largest and historically most important of the ancient Greek city-states, depended for...
Brill Academic Pub, 2009. — 357 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 318; Mnemosyne, Supplements, 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...
University of Wisconsin Press, 1993. — 165 p. The Wedding in Ancient Athens is the first book to reconstruct the stages of the ancient Greek wedding ceremony using a long-neglected source of information: vase paintings from the sixth through fourth centuries B.C. In order to elucidate the entire ceremony, from the preparations for the wedding to the rituals performed on the day...
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...
Brill, 1985. — 260 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 84). This book analyzes the defense policy of Athens in the period after the Peloponnesian War. In order to counter new offensive strategies and to protect vital local sources of revenue, the Athenians instituted a system of territorial defense, based on massive frontier fortresses and a sophisticated signal network. Individual...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 289 p. How do communities survive catastrophe? Using classical Athens as its case study, this book argues that if a democratic community is to survive over time, its people must choose to go on together. That choice often entails hardship and hard bargains. In good times, going on together presents few difficulties. But in the face of loss,...
Brill, 1985. — 260 p. This book analyzes the defense policy of Athens in the period after the Peloponnesian War. In order to counter new offensive strategies and to protect vital local sources of revenue, the Athenians instituted a system of territorial defense, based on massive frontier fortresses and a sophisticated signal network. Individual chapters treat Athens' postwar...
Princeton University Press, 2021. — 390 p. This book asks an important question often ignored by ancient historians and political scientists alike: Why did Athenian democracy work as well and for as long as it did? Josiah Ober seeks the answer by analyzing the sociology of Athenian politics and the nature of communication between elite and non-elite citizens. After a...
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, 1996. — 226 p. Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper-and lower-class citizens, for...
Brill, 2018. — 381 p. — (Mnemosyne, Supplements 425; Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity 425). In The Political Economy of Classical Athens - a Naval Perspective, Barry O'Halloran offers an account of the economic history of classical Athens in which its strategy of naval conquest provided the foundations for a period of unprecedented economic...
Clarendon Press, 1994. — 428 p. Near 2500 years ago, democracy was born in classical Athens. This collection of essays by twenty-two leading scholars from the UK, Europe, and America, is a twin celebration--it marks this occasion and also the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. The essays discuss the religious, financial,...
Fifth Edition. — Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 179 p. This volume in the Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on the Athenian Empire in new English translations, with accompanying maps, tables and figures, a glossary and short contextualising introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 456 p. This book introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Athens in the period from 800-500 BCE. Following the standard arrangement of the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World series, author Robin Osborne deals successively with the sources; environmental setting; material culture (settlement pattern, burial customs, ceramic...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 456 p. This book introduces the history and archaeology of ancient Athens in the period from 800-500 BCE. Following the standard arrangement of the Oxford History of the Archaic Greek World series, author Robin Osborne deals successively with the sources; environmental setting; material culture (settlement pattern, burial customs, ceramic...
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...
University of California Press, 1986. — 685 p. Analyzing the "democratic" features and institutions of the Athenian democracy in the fifth century B.C., Martin Ostwald traces their development from Solon's judicial reforms to the flowering of popular sovereignty, when the people assumed the right both to enact all legislation and to hold magistrates accountable for implementing...
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, initiating...
Bloomsbury, 2009. — 250 p. The empire that the Athenians established in the years after 478 BC was an entirely new phenomenon in the history of Greece, and the basis of much of the brilliant development of Athenian culture in the fifth century. Its growth and collapse was the key event in the history of the period, after the defeat of the Persian invasion. Yet this important...
Routledge, 2004. — 276 p. Focusing on the works of three of the greatest orators in history - Demosthenes, Lysias, and Hypereides - this collection of speeches is an indispensable source for anyone interested in classical civilization and literature, political science and rhetoric David D. Phillips is Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles. His books...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2008. — 278 p. — (Historia: Einzelschriften 202). In 621/0 B.C., the Athenians appointed Draco as their first lawgiver. His homicide laws, which alone survived the general recension of Athenian law by Solon (594/3 B.C.), remained in force down through the Classical period. This book traces the development of Athenian legal and social responses to homicide...
University of Michigan Press, 2013. — 558 p. The Law of Ancient Athens contains the principal literary and epigraphical sources, in English, for Athenian law in the Archaic and Classical periods, from the first known historical trial (late seventh century) to the fall of the democracy in 322 BCE. This accessible and important volume is designed for teachers, students, and...
University of Michigan Press, 2013. — 558 p. The Law of Ancient Athens contains the principal literary and epigraphical sources, in English, for Athenian law in the Archaic and Classical periods, from the first known historical trial (late seventh century) to the fall of the democracy in 322 BCE. This accessible and important volume is designed for teachers, students, and...
University of Michigan Press, 2013. — 556 p. The Law of Ancient Athens contains the principal literary and epigraphical sources, in English, for Athenian law in the Archaic and Classical periods, from the first known historical trial (late seventh century) to the fall of the democracy in 322 BCE. This accessible and important volume is designed for teachers, students, and...
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 265 p. Athenian democracy may have opened up politics to every citizen, but it had no impact on participation in sport. The city's sportsmen continued to be drawn from the elite, and so it comes as a surprise that sport was very popular with non-elite citizens of the classical period, who rewarded victorious sportsmen lavishly and created an...
Brill, 2001. — 264 p. — (Archaia Hellas / ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΣ 8) A specialist study of the principles of Athenian time-reckoning. Pritchett looks at the devising and manipulation of festival and prytany calendars, the irregularities found within them, and addresses the complexities of lunar cycles, extra days and leap years. Greek terms and extracts are not translated and this is...
Picard, 2003. — 305 p. — (Antiquité/Synthèses 7). L'abondante documentation transmise par les auteurs de l'Antiquité donne à Athènes une place exceptionnelle dans l'étude des cités grecques : pour le Ve siècle, ces sources, pour la plupart d'origine athénienne, attestent le rôle de premier plan joué dans les faits par la patrie de Sophocle, d'Aristophane et de Thucydide. Cet...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 264 p. This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental transitions undergone by the classical Athenian hoplite as a result of his military service: his departure to war, his homecoming from war having survived, and his homecoming from war having died. As a conscript, a man...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. — 264 p. This volume sheds new light on the experience of ancient Greek warfare by identifying and examining three fundamental transitions undergone by the classical Athenian hoplite as a result of his military service: his departure to war, his homecoming from war having survived, and his homecoming from war having died. As a conscript, a man...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 128 p. In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles was the leading figure in the city's public life. At this time Athens developed an empire of a kind which no Greek city had had before, and its politics were reshaped by the new institution of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 128 p. In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles was the leading figure in the city's public life. At this time Athens developed an empire of a kind which no Greek city had had before, and its politics were reshaped by the new institution of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. — 128 p. In the second and third quarters of the fifth century BC, when Athens became both politically and culturally dominant in the Greek world, Pericles was the leading figure in the city's public life. At this time Athens developed an empire of a kind which no Greek city had had before, and its politics were reshaped by the new institution of...
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.
Aris and Phillips, 2008. — 184 p. 'Old Oligarch' is a label often applied to the unknown author of the Athenian Constitution preserved with the works of Xenophon. Probably written in the mid 420s B.C., it is the earliest surviving Athenian prose text, and its author was probably a young pupil of the teachers known as sophists.
Cambridge University Press, 1995. — 236 p. — ISBN-13 978-0521469814. Architecture and Meaning on the Athenian Acropolis focuses on the architectural complex that is generally considered to be one of the outstanding achievements of Western civilization. Though the buildings and sculpture of the Acropolis, erected over the course of the fifth century B.C., have been scrutinized...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 492 p. This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness regarding the definition of violence. But in daily...
Princeton University Press, 1994. — 426 p. The classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a prime testing ground for political thought. Whether praising Athens's government...
Scholars Press, 1994. — 179 p. Ceremonies of Ancient Greece encompasses those practices of a formal religious nature celebrating particular moments in the life of the community or individual in Greece from the period of the Greek dark ages (c. 1000 B.C) to the middle ages (c. 500 A.D). Ancient Greek religion was not standardised and had no formalised canon of religious texts,...
Routledge, 2014. — 329 p. Athens at the time of the Peloponnesian war was the arena for a dramatic battle between politics and religion in the hearts and minds of the people. Fear and Loathing in Ancient Athens, originally published in German but now available for the first time in an expanded and revised English edition, sheds new light on this dramatic period of history and...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2000. — 301 p. — (Historia-Einzelschriften 147). Having demonstrated that about a third of the speeches in our corpus of forensic oratory were written for delivery by synegoroi rather than main parties, the author investigates the way in which synegoroi and main parties divided the argumentation between them in individual cases. She shows that trials of...
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 to...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 246 p. This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech by contrasting it with the very different form of free speech that was practised by the ancient Athenians in their democratic regime. Free speech in the ancient democracy was not a protected right but an expression of the...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. — 192 p. This book traces continuity in the development of the Athenian constitution, whereas previous studies have usually looked for catastrophic changes. Sealey selects three features of Athenian law which are important for the structure of society and the location of authority: (1) the legal status, and to a lesser extent the...
Pennsylvania State University Press, 1990. — 192 p. This book traces continuity in the development of the Athenian constitution, whereas previous studies have usually looked for catastrophic changes. Sealey selects three features of Athenian law which are important for the structure of society and the location of authority: (1) the legal status, and to a lesser extent the...
Cambridge University Press, 2011. — 386 p. During the turbulent last years of the fifth century BC, Athens twice suffered the overthrow of democracy and the subsequent establishment of oligarchic regimes. In an in-depth treatment of both political revolutions, Julia Shear examines how the Athenians responded to these events, at the level both of the individual and of the...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 500 p. — ISBN-13 978-1108485272. In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for constructing identities and how it...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 500 p. — ISBN-13 978-1108485272. In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for constructing identities and how it...
University of North Carolina Press, 1999. — 288 p. In this book, James Sickinger explores the use and preservation of public records in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods. Athenian public records are most familiar from the survival of inscribed stelai, slabs of marble on which were published decrees, treaties, financial accounts, and other state...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002. — 558 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 155). Eine 15-köpfige Arbeitsgruppe legt erstmals alle literarischen Zeugnisse aus der Zeit von 487-322 v. Chr. vor - einschliesslich der 120 z.T. unpublizierten Ostraka, deren sprachliche oder bildliche Kommentare über die "Sünden" des auszuweisenden Mitbürgers (meist eines Politikers) besonders wertvolle...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 192 p. What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. — 192 p. What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 312 p. This is an exciting new biography of Themistocles of Athens, architect of the Greek victory over the Persian invasions of 490 BC and 480 to 479 BC. While his role in the Persian wars is naturally a major theme, Themistocles' career before and after those conflicts is also considered in detail. Themistocles was a leading exponent of a new...
Pen and Sword Military, 2021. — 312 p. This is an exciting new biography of Themistocles of Athens, architect of the Greek victory over the Persian invasions of 490 BC and 480 to 479 BC. While his role in the Persian wars is naturally a major theme, Themistocles' career before and after those conflicts is also considered in detail. Themistocles was a leading exponent of a new...
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 that...
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. Nemesis...
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....
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 408 p. When we think of ancient Greece we think first of Athens: its power, prestige, and revolutionary impact on art, philosophy, and politics. But on the verge of the fifth century BCE, only fifty years before its zenith, Athens was just another Greek city-state in the shadow of Sparta. It would take a catastrophe, the Persian invasions, to...
Harvard University Press, 2021. — 408 p. When we think of ancient Greece we think first of Athens: its power, prestige, and revolutionary impact on art, philosophy, and politics. But on the verge of the fifth century BCE, only fifty years before its zenith, Athens was just another Greek city-state in the shadow of Sparta. It would take a catastrophe, the Persian invasions, to...
Mohr Siebeck, 2020. — 524 p. This edited volume presents the different articles from the participants in the 2015 scientific conference (Athens II) for the wonderful scholarly exchange and to all those who have contributed their papers to the volume for opening a vast array of windows into the real and imagined Athens of Late Antiquity.
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 324 p. Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today. Reflecting contemporary ideas about labour, leisure, and good citizenship, the 'poor' were considered to be not only those who were destitute, or those who were living at the borders of subsistence, but also those who...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 324 p. Poverty in fifth- and fourth-century BCE Athens was a markedly different concept to that with which we are familiar today. Reflecting contemporary ideas about labour, leisure, and good citizenship, the 'poor' were considered to be not only those who were destitute, or those who were living at the borders of subsistence, but also those who...
Amsterdam: J.C. Gieben, 1997. — 362 p. — (Archaia Hellas / ΑΡΧΑΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΣ 2). Salamis and the Salaminioi for the first time provides a thorough investigation of the people of the island of Salamis and their status in the Classical period. The first part of the work surveys the sixth-century history of the island, and challenges the communis opinio that Salamis was a klerouchy....
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 324 p. Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory...
Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 324 p. Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War is the first comprehensive study of Thucydides' presentation of Pericles' radical redefinition of the city of Athens during the Peloponnesian War. Martha Taylor argues that Thucydides subtly critiques Pericles' vision of Athens as a city divorced from the territory of...
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,...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2017. — 398 p. "Die athenische Demokratie des 4. Jahrhunderts v. Chr. steht seit einiger Zeit verstarkt im Fokus der Forschung. Trotz ungunstiger ausserer Umstande, mehrerer militarischer Niederlagen und einer schwindenden aussenpolitischen Bedeutung gelang den Athenern nicht nur die Bewaltigung dieser politischen Krisen, sondern auch der daraus...
University of California Press, 2009. — 248 p. Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader , Stephen V....
University of California Press, 2009. — 248 p. Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader , Stephen V....
University of California Press, 2009. — 248 p. Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader , Stephen V....
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...
I.B. Tauris, 2013. — 224 p. Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war fleet. This income stream is thought to have become the basis of Athenian imperial power, the...
I.B. Tauris, 2013. — 224 p. Historians since Herodotus and Thucydides have claimed that the year 483 BCE marked a turning point in the history of Athens. For it was then that Themistocles mobilized the revenues from the city's highly productive silver mines to build an enormous war fleet. This income stream is thought to have become the basis of Athenian imperial power, the...
Oxford University Press, 2015. — 248 p. Fifth-century Athenian musical and political theorist Damon was the first to study music's psychological, behavioural, and political effects, profoundly influencing debates on music theory throughout antiquity. Considered by Isokrates to be the most intelligent Athenian of his age, Damon worked alongside Perikles during the most vibrant...
Walter de Gruyter, 2024. — 470 p. — (Image & Context 25). This book offers the first in-depth study of Attic funerary monuments during the geometric, archaic, and classical period. The analysis of forms, images and inscriptions shows, from an anthropological perspective, the Athenian attitude towards death in its fundamental difference to Christian occidental views. The book,...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. - A revised, updated, and enlarged translation into English - Provides a thorough reinterpretation of the original aims of Athenian ostracism - Applies a novel conceptual apparatus to illuminate an ancient social practice Ostracism is by far the most emblematic institution of ancient Athenian democracy. This volume offers a reassessment...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 320 p. - A revised, updated, and enlarged translation into English - Provides a thorough reinterpretation of the original aims of Athenian ostracism - Applies a novel conceptual apparatus to illuminate an ancient social practice Ostracism is by far the most emblematic institution of ancient Athenian democracy. This volume offers a reassessment...
Mouton, 1969. — 121 p. Isaeus was one of the ten Attic Orators according to the Alexandrian canon. He was a student of Isocrates in Athens, and later taught Demosthenes while working as a metric speechwriter for others. Only eleven of his speeches survive, with fragments of a twelfth. They are mostly concerned with inheritance, with one on civil rights. Dionysius of...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 196 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 233). What does it mean to belong to a community? How is membership conceptualised and in what way is the position of newcomers negotiated and the community’s cohesion secured? Although no clear definition of citizenship survives from classical Athens, many sources include the statement that belonging to the polis...
Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. — 196 p. — (Historia Einzelschriften 233). What does it mean to belong to a community? How is membership conceptualised and in what way is the position of newcomers negotiated and the community’s cohesion secured? Although no clear definition of citizenship survives from classical Athens, many sources include the statement that belonging to the polis...
De Gruyter, 2022. — 365 p. In der Athenischen Demokratie waren Reden ein zentraler Bestandteil der gemeinsamen Erinnerungskultur. Während die epitaphioi logoi die Sternstunden der athenischen Myth-Historie feierten, wurde allerdings in den Reden, die die Tagespolitik bestimmten, die gesamte Bandbreite der Erinnerungen angesprochen. Erfolge wie Misserfolge wurden diskutiert,...
Reissue edition — Verso, 2015. — 226 p. The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts...
Reissue edition — Verso, 2015. — 226 p. The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts...
University of Michigan Press, 1993. — 416 p. The first comprehensive examination of the well-known Athenian orator and political actor Dinarchus, perhaps most famous for his prosecution of Demosthenes in the Harpalus corruption affair.
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 424 p. To many the history of post-Classical Athens is one of decline. True, Athens hardly commanded the number of allies it had when hegemon of its fifth-century Delian League or even its fourth-century Naval Confederacy, and its navy was but a shadow of its former self. But Athens recovered from its perilous position in the closing quarter of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 424 p. To many the history of post-Classical Athens is one of decline. True, Athens hardly commanded the number of allies it had when hegemon of its fifth-century Delian League or even its fourth-century Naval Confederacy, and its navy was but a shadow of its former self. But Athens recovered from its perilous position in the closing quarter of...
Oxford University Press, 2020. — 424 p. To many the history of post-Classical Athens is one of decline. True, Athens hardly commanded the number of allies it had when hegemon of its fifth-century Delian League or even its fourth-century Naval Confederacy, and its navy was but a shadow of its former self. But Athens recovered from its perilous position in the closing quarter of...
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 a...
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 a...
University of Rochester Press, 2012. — 174 p. Aristophanic Comedy and the Challenge of Democratic Citizenship finds in Aristophanes' comedies a complex comic disposition necessary for meeting the fundamental challenge of ordinary citizenship. That challenge, Zumbrunnen argues, emerges from the tension between two democratic impulses: a rebelliousness that resists all attempts...
Киев: Мультимедийное издательство Стрельбицкого, 2016. — 423 с. Действие, которое развертывается в романе Ивана Аврамова «Ошибка Перикла», переносит читателя в седую античность — V век до нашей эры, Древние Афины, последние три года жизни и деятельности Перикла-Олимпийца. При нем древнегреческая демократия достигла небывалого расцвета, но, тем не менее, постепенно пошла на...
М.: Издательство АН СССР, 1963. — 176 с. В настоящей работе автор ставил перед собой задачу дать анализ истории связей Афин с северопонтийскими городами с момента их зарождения до II в. до н. э. Особое внимание уделено изучению начального этапа сношений Афин с Северным Причерноморьем, исследованию вопросов, связанных с борьбой Афин за контроль над Черноморскими проливами,...
Вступ. ст. Э. Д. Фролова; науч. редакция текста Э. Д. Фролова, Μ. М. Холода. — СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2003. — 480 с. — (Studia Classica). — ISBN 5-93762-021-6. Предлагаемый вниманию читателей фундаментальный труд выдающегося российского историка-антиковеда В. П. Бузескула (1858—1931), впервые изданный еще в начале XX века, до сих пор остается самым основательным на...
Вступ. ст. Э. Д. Фролова; науч. редакция текста Э. Д. Фролова, Μ. М. Холода. — СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2003. — 480 с. — (Studia Classica). — ISBN 5-93762-021-6. Предлагаемый вниманию читателей фундаментальный труд выдающегося российского историка-антиковеда В. П. Бузескула (1858—1931), впервые изданный еще в начале XX века, до сих пор остается самым основательным на...
Вступ. ст. Э. Д. Фролова; науч. редакция текста Э. Д. Фролова, Μ. М. Холода. — СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2003. — 480 с. — (Studia Classica). — ISBN 5-93762-021-6. Предлагаемый вниманию читателей фундаментальный труд выдающегося российского историка-антиковеда В. П. Бузескула (1858—1931), впервые изданный еще в начале XX века, до сих пор остается самым основательным на...
М.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2003. — 480 с. Предлагаемый вниманию читателей фундаментальный труд выдающегося российского историка-антиковеда В.П. Бузескула (1858-1931), впервые изданный еще в начале XX века, до сих пор остается самым основательным на русском языке изложением политической истории одного из наиболее знаменитых городов-государств древнего мира - Афинской республики....
Цифровое издание. — Москва: Вече, 2019. — (Античный мир). — ISBN 978-5-4484-7798-0. Книга выдающегося российского историка Античности Владислава Петровича Бузескула (1858-1931), впервые изданная в 1909 г., может быть названа одним из самых серьезных исследований политической истории Афинской республики на русском языке. Несмотря на более чем вековой возраст, труд Бузескула не...
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Интернет-издание, 2001. — 157 с. Электронная публикация посвящена рассмотрению роли, которую сыграло олигархическое движение в классическом периоде афинской истории, и подготовлена составлена на основании диссертации, защищенной на историческом факультете СПбГУ по специальности 07.00.03 - Всеобщая история (История Древней Греции).
Интернет-издание, 2001. — 157 с. Электронная публикация посвящена рассмотрению роли, которую сыграло олигархическое движение в классическом периоде афинской истории, и подготовлена составлена на основании диссертации, защищенной на историческом факультете СПбГУ по специальности 07.00.03 - Всеобщая история (История Древней Греции).
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Монография. — Москва: ИД ВШЭ, 2021. — 456 c. — (Монографии ВШЭ. Гуманитарные науки). — ISBN 978-5-7598-2164-9. В монографии исследуется процесс становления афинской демократии на протяжении архаического и классического периодов (VIII - середина V века до н.э.). Вопросы о том, что такое афинская демократия, когда она возникла и какую роль в ее появлении сыграли те или иные...
Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2021. — 456 c. — (Монографии ВШЭ: Гуманитарные науки). — ISBN 978-5-7598-2164-9. В монографии исследуется процесс становления афинской демократии на протяжении архаического и классического периодов (VIII — середина V века до н.э.). Вопросы о том, что такое афинская демократия, когда она возникла и какую роль в ее появлении сыграли те или иные...
Изд. дом Высшей школы экономики, 2021. — 456 c. — (Монографии ВШЭ: Гуманитарные науки). — ISBN 978-5-7598-2164-9. В монографии исследуется процесс становления афинской демократии на протяжении архаического и классического периодов (VIII — середина V века до н.э.). Вопросы о том, что такое афинская демократия, когда она возникла и какую роль в ее появлении сыграли те или иные...
Roma: Visione S.r.l., 2015. — 90 c. Первый оригинальный археологический путеводитель с реконструкциями древних монументов. Древняя Греция оживает на 28 прекрасных прозрачных реконструкциях, наложенных на фотографии. Прошлое и настоящее переплетаются, предоставляя неповторимый и чарующий вид страны.
Журнал Министерства Народного Просвещения. Седьмое десятилетие. Часть CCCXXIII. 1899. Май. СПб.: Типография И. Н. Скороходова, 1898. — XVI, 365 c.
Научно-литературная деятельность Жебелёва была направлена главным образом на изучение политической истории Древней Греции, преимущественно начиная с конца III века до н. э.; этому посвящены магистерская и докторская диссертации...
М.: Институт всеобщей истории РАН, 2003 г. - 310 с. В книге – на основании анализа разнообразных источников и использования последних достижений историографии – рассматриваются дискуссионные проблемы истории Афин VI–IV вв. до н.э., а также сопутствующие темы. Взаимоотношение политических лидеров и толп (неорганизованных массовых сборищ) рассматривается в первых двух разделах....
Л.: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1961. — 373 с. Эта книга была задумана автором в процессе чтения им на историческом факультете ЛГУ курса лекции по истории древних городов. Это не учебное пособие и не монография в точном значении этого слова. Книга посвящена истории Афин начиная с XVI до IV вв. до н. э. и содержит сведения о наиболее важных памятниках античного...
Л.: Издательство Ленинградского университета, 1961. — 373 с. Эта книга была задумана автором в процессе чтения им на историческом факультете ЛГУ курса лекции по истории древних городов. Это не учебное пособие и не монография в точном значении этого слова. Книга посвящена истории Афин начиная с XVI до IV вв. до н. э. и содержит сведения о наиболее важных памятниках античного...
Отв. ред. Э.Д. Фролов. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2008. — 464 с.: ил. — (Античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN: 978-5-91419-091-7. Монография Т.В. Кудрявцевой является первым в отечественной историографии обобщающим исследованием об одном из ключевых политических инструментов афинской демократии ‒ народном суде, или гелиэе. Возникновение и развитие гелиэи рассматриваются в тесной...
Отв. ред. Э.Д. Фролов. — СПб.: Алетейя, 2008. — 464 с.: ил. — (Античная библиотека. Исследования). — ISBN: 978-5-91419-091-7. Монография Т.В. Кудрявцевой является первым в отечественной историографии обобщающим исследованием об одном из ключевых политических инструментов афинской демократии ‒ народном суде, или гелиэе. Возникновение и развитие гелиэи рассматриваются в тесной...
ЖМНП, ч. 268, 1891, ноябрь; ч. 289, 1893, сентябрь. — 192, 1 л. карта
Освещается, согласно вновь открытым источникам, административно-территориальное деление Афин, разделение гражданской общины, деятельность реформатора Клисфена. Димы, филы, фратрии, навкрарии и многое другое.
М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгард, 2008. - 352 с.
На нашей планете найдется не много городов, способных соперничать с Афинами древностью. Построенный Тесеем по воле богини Афины, этот город видел нашествие персов и суд над Сократом, славил Перикла и изгонял Фукидида, объединял Грецию и становился зачинщиком раздоров, восхвалял поэтов и философов - и подвергал их осмеянию. Позднее этот...
М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгард, 2008. — 352 с.
На нашей планете найдется не много городов, способных соперничать с Афинами древностью. Построенный Тесеем по воле богини Афины, этот город видел нашествие персов и суд над Сократом, славил Перикла и изгонял Фукидида, объединял Грецию и становился зачинщиком раздоров, восхвалял поэтов и философов - и подвергал их осмеянию. Позднее этот...
М.: Эксмо; СПб.: Мидгард, 2008. - 352 с.
На нашей планете найдется не много городов, способных соперничать с Афинами древностью. Построенный Тесеем по воле богини Афины, этот город видел нашествие персов и суд над Сократом, славил Перикла и изгонял Фукидида, объединял Грецию и становился зачинщиком раздоров, восхвалял поэтов и философов - и подвергал их осмеянию. Позднее этот...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2021. — 918 с. — (Интеллектуальная история). — ISBN 978-5-4448-1518-2. В 403 году до н.э. завершился непродолжительный, но кровавый период истории Древних Афин: войско изгнанников-демократов положило конец правлению «тридцати тиранов». Победители могли насладиться местью, но вместо этого афинские граждане — вероятно, впервые в истории — пришли...
Москва: Новое литературное обозрение, 2021. — 360 с. — (Интеллектуальная история). — ISBN 978-5-4448-1518-2. В 403 году до н.э. завершился непродолжительный, но кровавый период истории Древних Афин: войско изгнанников-демократов положило конец правлению «тридцати тиранов». Победители могли насладиться местью, но вместо этого афинские граждане — вероятно, впервые в истории —...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2021. — 362 с. — (Интеллектуальная история). — ISBN 978-5-4448-1518-2. В 403 году до н.э. завершился непродолжительный, но кровавый период истории Древних Афин: войско изгнанников-демократов положило конец правлению «тридцати тиранов». Победители могли насладиться местью, но вместо этого афинские граждане — вероятно, впервые в истории — пришли...
М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2021. — 362 с. — (Интеллектуальная история). — ISBN 978-5-4448-1518-2. В 403 году до н.э. завершился непродолжительный, но кровавый период истории Древних Афин: войско изгнанников-демократов положило конец правлению «тридцати тиранов». Победители могли насладиться местью, но вместо этого афинские граждане — вероятно, впервые в истории — пришли...
// Ученые записки, издаваемые Императорским Казанским университетом. - 1853. - Кн.
4. - Казань, 1854- 96 c.
В статье изложены основные положения работы немецкого исследователя А. Бека "Государственное хозяйство Афин" (1-е изд -1817, переработанное 2 -е изд. 1851)
Анализируются источники государственных доходов, основы финансового управления в архаический и классический период...
Самиздат, 2018. Эта книга для тех, кто был в Афинах и Аттике, но многое пропустил. А также для тех, кто никогда не был в Греции, но хочет узнать возможно больше о ее древней истории. В особенности такой информации, которой нет в учебниках. Автор постарался собрать все самое важное и не пропустить ничего существенного. В книге много различных иллюстраций. Все об Афинах и Аттике...
Учебное пособие по спецкурсу для исторических факультетов вузов / И. Е. Суриков. — М.: Русский Фонд Содействия Образованию и Науке, 2009. — 256 с.
Огромную роль в общественной жизни древнегреческих государств играли политические элиты различного характера. Поэтому одной из наиболее серьезных проблем, встающих в связи с изучением античного греческого полиса и сложившегося в его...
М.: Языки славянских культур, 2006. — 641 c. — ISBN 5-9551-0136-5. Книга представляет собой первое в российской науке комплексное исследование остракизма – важного института античной афинской демократии, внесудебного изгнания наиболее влиятельных граждан из государства сроком на десять лет. Рассматриваются все основные аспекты истории остракизма: происхождение этого института,...
М.: Языки славянских культур, 2006. — 641 c. — ISBN 5-9551-0136-5. Книга представляет собой первое в российской науке комплексное исследование остракизма – важного института античной афинской демократии, внесудебного изгнания наиболее влиятельных граждан из государства сроком на десять лет. Рассматриваются все основные аспекты истории остракизма: происхождение этого института,...
СПб.: Факультет филологии и искусств СПбГУ, 2008. – 358 с. – (Историческая библиотека).
ISBN 978-5-8465-0759-3
В книге рассказывается о том, как возникла, развивалась, пережила расцвет и упадок первая в мировой истории демократия, ставшая образцом для всех последующих демократических государств. Эта демократия существовала на земле Древней Греции, в Афинах – городе, который...
СПб.: Факультет филологии и искусств СПбГУ, 2008. – 358 с. – (Историческая библиотека).
ISBN 978-5-8465-0759-3
В книге рассказывается о том, как возникла, развивалась, пережила расцвет и упадок первая в мировой истории демократия, ставшая образцом для всех последующих демократических государств. Эта демократия существовала на земле Древней Греции, в Афинах – городе, который...
Москва: Языки славянских культур, 2006. — 641 c. — ISBN 5-9551-0136-5. Книга представляет собой первое в российской науке комплексное исследование остракизма - важного института античной афинской демократии, внесудебного изгнания наиболее влиятельных граждан из государства сроком на десять лет. Рассматриваются все основные аспекты истории остракизма: происхождение этого...
Монография. — СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2002. — 544 с. — ISBN 5-93762-010-0. Вступительная статья, научная и литературная редакция Э.Д. Фролова. В книге рижского антиковеда, профессора Латвийского Университета X. Туманса прослеживается развитие одного из важнейших центров древнегреческой цивилизации — Афинского государства. Именно здесь в период с VIII по V вв. до н. э....
Монография. — СПб.: Гуманитарная Академия, 2002. — 544 с. — ISBN: 5-93762-010-0. Вступительная статья, научная и литературная редакция Э.Д. Фролова. В книге рижского антиковеда, профессора Латвийского Университета X. Туманса прослеживается развитие одного из важнейших центров древнегреческой цивилизации — Афинского государства. Именно здесь в период с VIII по V вв. до н. э....
Петроград: Огни, 1918. — 217 с.
В книге известного российского и советского археолога, специалиста в области античной археологии, археологии Северного Причерноморья и истории античного искусства, рассматриваются архитектура, прикладное искусство и скульптура Афин архаического периода и эпохи Перикла.
Исторический источник
Некоторые древнегреческие авторы написали "Аттиды" - местные истории Аттики и Афин, - но, безусловно, самой известной из них стала "Аттида" Филохора. Большое количество ссылок на нее у других античных авторов показывают, насколько влиятельна она была.
Филохор охватил всю Афинскую историю, начиная с самых ранних легендарных времен и вплоть до захвата Афин...
М.: Типография Э. Лисснера и Ю. Романа, 1891. — 444 с.
Валериан Александрович Шеффер (1864—1900) — филолог, сын профессора Александра Александровича Шеффера. Окончил курс в Киевском университете по историко-филологическому факультету. Три года провел за границей, усердно работая в разных областях классической филологии, особенно под руководством профессора Роберта. В 1889 г. за...
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