Athens and Athenian democracy / Robin Osborne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Osborne, Robin, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.

Democracy.

Greece--Athens.

History.

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.

Athens (Greece).

Genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.

Physical Description:

xix, 462 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.

Summary:

"These collected papers construct a distinctive view of classical Athens and of Athenian democracy, a view which takes seriously the evidence of settlement archaeology and of art history. This evidence both casts new light on traditional questions and enables new questions to be asked, questions concerning the experience of being an Athenian citizen, how the institutions of democracy affected the Athenian economy, and how the rituals of religion related to the rituals of democratic politics. Unlike books on Athenian democracy which focus on the Assembly and Council, this book gives full weight to women as well as men, slave as well as free, and the rural worker as well as the leisured man about town. Robin Osborne's work has been in the forefront of the resurgence of interest in Athenian law and Athenian religion; these essays are each placed in their scholarly context, and point the direction for future research"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Changing visions of democracy

Athenian democracy: something to celebrate?

The demos and its divisions in Classical Athens

Inscribing performance

The economics and politics of slavery at Athens

Pride and prejudice, sense and subsistence: exchange and society in the Greek city

"Is it a farm?" The definition of agricultural sites and settlements in ancient Greece

The potential mobility of human populations

Law in action in classical Athens

Vexatious litigation in classical Athens: sykophancy and the sycophant

Religion, imperial politics, and the offering of freedom to slaves

Law, the democratic citizen, and the representation of women in classical Athens

Changing the discourse

The viewing and obscuring of the Parthenon frieze

Democracy and imperialism in the Panathenaic procession: the Parthenon frieze in its context

Competitive festivals and the polis: a context for dramatic festivals at Athens

The erection and mutilation of the hermai

The ecstasy and the tragedy: varieties of religious experience in art, drama, and society

Coda: from ritual to politics, and back again.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521605709

9780521844215

0521844215

9780521605700

OCLC:

519824661

Publisher Number:

99954832065