The Association of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy

ISBN-13: 9780195121759 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 368 str.

Nicholas F. Jones

Opis

Jones' book examines the associations of ancient Athens under the classical democracy (508/7-321 B.C.) in light of their relations to the central government. Associations of all types--village communities, cultic groups, brotherhoods, sacerdotal families, philosophical schools, and others--emerge as fundamentally similar instances of Aristotelian koinoniai. Each, it is argued, acquired its distinctive character in response to particular features of the contemporary democracy. The analysis results in the first integrated, holistic institutional reconstruction of Greece's first city.

Recenzje

J.'s interpretation of ancient texts is uniformly interesting and strong ... The strength of his book is in the details ... The book deserves to be widely consulted.