Ancient Greek history and contemporary social science / edited by Mirko Canevaro, Andrew Erskine, Benjamin Gray and Josiah Ober.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Canevaro, Mirko, editor.

Erskine, Andrew, editor.

Gray, Benjamin D. (Benjamin David), 1983- editor.

Ober, Josiah, editor.

Series:

Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 9.

Edinburgh Leventis studies ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greece--History--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

History.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Civilization.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 591 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2018]

Summary:

Although the history of engagement between social science and ancient Greek history is a long one, recent developments in economics, political science and sociology have opened fresh opportunities for fruitful interdisciplinary scholarship. The essays collected here demonstrate the potential of theories and methods drawn from the social sciences to shed new light on facets of Greek economic, political, and cultural history. And, conversely, they show that Greece may serve as an "out of sample" test for theories about institutions, organizations, associations, social thought, and social behavior that were formulated in reference to the contemporary world.

Contents:

Introduction / Josiah Ober

Part I: Theory and method. 1. Behavioural economics and economic behaviour in classical Athens / David Lewis

2. The city in chorus: for a choral history of Athenian society / Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard

3. Approaching the Hellenistic Polis through modern political theory: the public sphere, pluralism and prosperity / Bejamin Gray

Part II: Institutions. 4. Majority rule vs. consensus: the practice of democratic deliberation in the Greek Poleis / Mirko Canevaro

5. Rethinking mass and elite: decision-making in the Athenian law-courts / Federica Carugati and Barry R. Weingast

6. Ancient and modern conceptions of the rule of law / Sara Forsdyke

7. What can data drawn from the Hansen-Nielsen Inventory tell us about political transitions in ancient Greece? / Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

Part III: Behaviour. 8. Patronage in ancient Sparta / Ingvar B. Mæhle

9. Understanding the politics of Pericles around 450 BCE: the benefits of an economic perspective / Carl Hampus Lyttkens and Henrik Gerding

10. Cash and crowns: a network approach to Greek athletic prizes / Christian Mann

Part IV: Wealth, poverty and inequality. 11. Property security and its limits in classical Greece / Emily Mackil

12. Economic (in)equality and democracy: the political economy of poverty in Athens / Claire Taylor

13. The distribution of wealthy Athenians in the Attic Demes / James Kierstead and Roman Klapaukh

Part V: Interstate relations. 14. Exploring intercommunity political activity in fourth-century Greece / Peter Liddel

15. Hegemonic legitimacy (and its absence) in classical Greece / Polly Low

16. The Koinon Dogma, the mercenary threat and the consolidation of the democratic revolutions in mid-fifth-century Sicily / David A. Teegarden

Part VI: Technology and innovation. 17. Muddle wrestling: grappling for conceptual clarity in archaic Greek money / Peter van Alfen

18. Entanglement, materiality and the social organisation of construction workers in classical Athens / Diane Harris Cline

19. Technology and society in classical Athens: a study of the social context of mining and metallurgy at Laurion / Kim van Liefferinge

Overview: Greek history at a crossroads / John K. Davies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781474421775

1474421776

OCLC:

1012617203

Publisher Number:

99978229125