Building democracy in late archaic Athens / Jessica Paga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paga, Jessica, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy and architecture--Greece--Athens.

Democracy and architecture.

Architecture and society--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.

Architecture and society.

Architecture--Greece--Athens.

Architecture.

History.

Greece--Athens.

Athens (Greece)--Politics and government.

Athens (Greece).

Athens (Greece)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Buildings.

Politics and government.

Genre:

Electronic books.

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 347 pages) : illustrations, maps

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"In 508/7 B.C.E., after years of stasis and uncertainty, the city of Athens was rocked by a momentous occurrence: the passage of a series of reforms that resulted in the creation of what has come to be known as the world's first democracy. Exactly how the Athenians did this is still a fundamental question 2,500 years later. This book provides a novel answer to these questions by attending to the built environment broadly, and monumental architecture specifically. The reforms transformed the very nature of what it meant to be Athenian and their far-reaching effects would come to leave their mark on nearly every aspect of society, including the structures at which they prayed and in which they debated legislation. This book investigates the built environment of ancient Athens precisely during this time, the Late Archaic period (ca. 514/13 - 480/79 B.C.E.). It was these decades, filled with transition and disorder, when the Athenians transformed their political system from a tyranny to a democracy. Concurrent with the socio-political changes, they altered the physical landscape and undertook the monumental articulation of the city and countryside. Interpreting the nature of the fledgling democracy from a material standpoint, this book approaches the questions and problems about the early political system through the lens of buildings. This book draws attention to a pivotal period of Athenian political history through the built environment, thereby exposing the richness of the material record and illustrating how it participated in the creation of a new democratic Athenian identity"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The Akropolis: Monuments and Military Dominance

The Agora: Form, Function, and Ideology

The Astu: The Architectural Matrix of the Polis

The Demes: Delineation and Interconnectivity

Buildings and Democracy

Appendix I: Building Chronology in Athens and Attika, 508/7

480/79 B.C.E.

Appendix II: IG I3 4B, The Hekatompedon Decree: Text, Translation, and Brief Commentary

Appendix III: Dating the Old Bouleuterion and Stoa Basileios.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on August 19, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Paga, Jessica. Building democracy in late archaic Athens.

ISBN:

9780190083601

0190083603

9780190083595

019008359X

9780190083588

0190083581

OCLC:

1162322570

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license