The power of the individual and community in Ancient Athens and beyond : essays in honour of John K. Davies / edited by Zosia Archibald and Jan Haywood.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Archibald, Zosia H., 1954- editor.

Davies, John K. (John Kenyon), 1937- honouree.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athens (Greece)--History.

Athens (Greece).

Genre:

History.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xxvii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Swansea : The Classical Press of Wales, 2019.

Contents:

1 Imaginary propertied families: kinship in epic poetry p. 1 / S. C. Humphreys

2 'Charis, sweetest of gods': wealth and reciprocity in Classical Athens p. 49 / Nick Fisher

3 Herodotus and the social contexts of memory in Ancient Greece: the individual historian and his community p. 79 / Edward M. Harris

4 From Croesus to Pausanias: tragic individuals in early Greek historiography p. 115 / Jan Haywood

5 Euergetism and the public economy of Classical Athens: the initiative of the deme p. 147 / Robin Osborne

6 The priesthoods of the Eteoboutadai p. 163 / Stephen Lambert

7 Tegeas from Torone and some truths about ancient markets p. 177 / Zosia Halina Archibald

8 At tire roots of a revolution. Land ownership, citizenship and military sendee in Macedonia before and after Philip II p. 213 / Manuela Mari

9 A twenty-first century Philippic p. 241 / A. J. N. W. Prag and J. H. Musgrave and R. A. H. Neave

10 Apollo, the tutelary god of the Seleucids, and Demodamas of Miletus p. 261 / Krzusztof Nawotka

11 From Xerxes to Mithridates: kings, coins and economic life at Kelainai-Apameia p. 285 / Alain Bresson

12 John Davies, Greek historian p. 311 / P.J. Rhodes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

191058973X

9781910589731

OCLC:

1046101753

Publisher Number:

99980081336