The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy

ISBN-13: 9781107670464 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 224 str.

Demetra Kasimis

Opis

Argues that immigration politics is a central - but overlooked - matter of contestation in the democratic thought of classical Athens.

Recenzje

'… this book is 'good to think with'.' Sehepunkte

Spis treści

Part I. Autochthony Trouble: 1. The metic in and out of theory; 2. Immigrant passing in Euripides' Ion, the tragedy of blood-based membership; Part II. A Metric Republic in Three Acts: 3. The Republic as a metic space; 4. Plato's open decret; 5. Of mimesis and metic: a reading of democracy in Book VIII; Part III. Evading Detection: 6. Citizen passing in Demosthenes 57: the oration of Athenian blood; Conclusion: political theory from the edges of Athenian democracy; Appendix. A metic timeline.