Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece

ISBN-13: 9780198817192 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 384 str.

Alain Duplouy; Roger W. Brock

Opis

Citizenship is a major feature of contemporary politics, but rather than being a modern phenomenon it is in fact a legacy of ancient Greece. Focusing on the archaic period and its cities, this volume challenges the narrow Aristotelian model of citizenship and provides instead a wide range of insights and methodological approaches to the topic.

Recenzje

Readers of this volume are well advised to start with B.'s 'Conclusion' to the volume. From that they will learn that the volume is not really about 'citizenship', as a juridically defined status, at all. Rather it is about the variety of modes of 'community participation' within the archaic Greek world. Presumably we owe the title partly to the book's origins in two conferences on archaic Greek citizenship, partly to the way in which, in the opening words of D.'s first chapter, 'Citizenship is a major feature of contemporary national and international politics'.

O autorze

Alain Duplouy is Reader in Greek Archaeology at the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, where he has been teaching since 2003. He studied Classics in Brussels and Archaeology in Paris, and was previously a British Academy Visiting Fellow at Leeds and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has been involved in and also co-directed various field projects in Greece (Itanos) and Italy (Laos and Pietragalla), and his research interests focus particularly on the archaic Greek world, the archaeology of ancient Lucania, and the history of university collections. His publications mainly cover the social and political history of archaic Greece, with a focus on the elite and on citizenship. Roger W. Brock is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Leeds. He studied at Oxford, was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Ohio State University, and taught at the University of St Andrews and Balliol College, Oxford, before moving to Leeds in 1990. His research interests lie particularly in the fields of Greek historiography, especially Herodotus, and ancient Greek politics, while his publications cover Greek political and constitutional organization, political imagery and ideology, and also wider topics in Greek history and literature. His research currently focuses on ancient Greek citizenship, especially civic subdivisions and non-political aspects, and the related topic of the functioning of Greek oligarchies; he also has a long-standing interest in wine in ancient Greece.