Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis

ISBN-13: 9780198149927 / Angielski / Twarda / 1995 / 432 str.

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Opis

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, and political aspects of Athenian democracy, and all offer new interpretations of the subject, paying particular attention to epigraphy, Lewis's speciality.

Recenzje

a fitting tribute to this great scholar ... let me say that O. and H. have produced a meticulously edited book, and that everyone interested in Greek society, politics, religion, economics, indeed every aspect of ancient Greek society, will use this book at some time: it stands as a tribute to a great scholar and a complex and great civilization.