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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2000.
Full Description
In 1993 the world celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, whose polis - or citizen state - is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. In an age when democracy has apparently triumphed following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, we tend to forget that the democratic citizen-state was only one of many forms of political community in Greek antiquity. This volume aims to redress the balance. Eighteen essays by established and younger historians examine alternative political systems and ideologies: oligarchies, monarchies, and mixed constitutions along with diverse forms of communal and regional associations such as ethnoi, amphiktyonies, and confederacies. The papers, which span the length and breadth of the Hellenic world from the Balkans and Anatolia to Magna Graecia and north Africa, highlight the immense political flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilization.
Contents
Alternatives to Athens, Introduction ; 1. Theognis - Alternative to Democracy ; 2. Megara's Mafiosi ; 3. Exchange and Stasis in Mytilene ; 4. Cyrene, Typical, or Atypical? ; 5. Monarchy in Athenian Democracy ; 6. Oligarchies in Athens ; 7. Syracusan Democracy ; 8. Aristotle's Mixed Constitution ; 9. The Polis in Italy ; 10. Cities and the Athenian Ethnos ; 11. Space Hierarchy and Community ; 12. The Molossian Ethnos, State, and Monarchy ; 13. Homeric and Macedonian Kingship ; 14. The 'Kings' of Achaemenid Lycia ; 15. The Pre-polis Polis ; 16. Delphi and her External Relations ; 17. Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy ; 18. Federalism in West Crete
