The Birth of the Athenian Community: From Solon to Cleisthenes

ISBN-13: 9781138083516 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 392 str.

Dmitriev, Sviatoslav

Opis

The Birth of the Athenian Community offers a new interpretation of the origins and advancement of the city of Athens. Instead of approaching Athenian history traditionally, as a linear progression, this book presents it as a gradually rising complexity of a multidimensional social fabric comprised of distinct but closely interwoven kinship, legal, and political communities. Their evolving relationship determined the course of Athenian history, including Cleisthenes’ establishment of demokratia and Pericles’ political reforms, among other important events. Similar developments in other parts of the Greek world suggest that Athens’ evolution, while much better documented, was not unique.

Spis treści

Preface.  Introduction.  Part One: The kinship community.  1. The Athenian kinsme.n  2. Solon’s organization of the kinship community.  Part Two: The legal community.  3. Politeia and politai.  4. Solon and the Athenian politeia.  Part Three: The political community.  5. Politeia and politics.  6. Cleisthenes and the emergence of the political community.  Epilogue: Approximating the Athenian community,  Appendices,  Indices,  Select Bibliography.

O autorze

Sviatoslav Dmitriev (Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001) has authored City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (2005) and The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece (2011), as well as articles on ancient Greek, Roman, and Byzantine history. His current projects focus on the Athenian orator Demades and the Byzantine erudite John Lydus, who lived a thousand years apart. He is an associate professor of history at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana.