The demes of Attica, 508/7-ca. 250 B.C. : a political and social study / by David Whitehead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whitehead, David, 1949- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton legacy library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Local government--Greece--Attike.

Local government.

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Attikē (Greece)--Politics and government.

Attikē (Greece).

Attikē (Greece)--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (515 pages) : map.

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1986]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This work is a richly detailed study of the nature and development of the 139 Attic demes, the local units that made up the city-state of Athens during the classical and early Hellenistic periods.Originally published in 1986.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

I. Prolegomena

1. BEFORE AND AFTER KLEISTHENES

2. SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY

II. Inside the Deme

3. THE DEME AND ITS RESIDENTS

4. THE DEME ASSEMBLY

5. THE DEMARCH AND OTHER OFFICIALS

6. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

7. RELIGION

8. DEME SOCIETY

III. Deme and Polis

9. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

10. LOCAL POLITICS AND CITY POLITICS

11. THE DEME IN COMEDY

IV. Conspectus: The Demes and History

PROSOPOGRΑΡΗY

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED

INDEX OF DEMES

GENERAL INDEX

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Bibliography: pages [455]-459.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-691-61110-6

0-691-63913-2

1-4008-5768-6

OCLC:

889254614