Alternatives to Athens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Alternatives to Athens write by Roger Brock. This book was released on 2002. Alternatives to Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume contains eighteen essays by established and younger historians that examine non-democratic alternative political systems and ideologies--oligarchies, monarchies, 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 highlight the immense political flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilization.
Ancient West and East
Ancient West and East - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ancient West and East write by Gocha R. Tsetskhladze. This book was released on 2003-01-24. Ancient West and East available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work is a bi-annual devoted to the study of the history and archaeology of the periphery of the Graeco-Roman world, concentrating on local societies and cultures and their interaction with the Graeco-Roman, Near Eastern and early Byzantine worlds.
Popular Tyranny
Popular Tyranny - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Popular Tyranny write by Kathryn A. Morgan. This book was released on 2013-10-11. Popular Tyranny available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The nature of authority and rulership was a central concern in ancient Greece, where the figure of the king or tyrant and the sovereignty associated with him remained a powerful focus of political and philosophical debate even as Classical Athens developed the world's first democracy. This collection of essays examines the extraordinary role that the concept of tyranny played in the cultural and political imagination of Archaic and Classical Greece through the interdisciplinary perspectives provided by internationally known archaeologists, literary critics, and historians. The book ranges historically from the Bronze and early Iron Age to the political theorists and commentators of the middle of the fourth century B.C. and generically across tragedy, comedy, historiography, and philosophy. While offering individual and sometimes differing perspectives, the essays tackle several common themes: the construction of authority and of constitutional models, the importance of religion and ritual, the crucial role of wealth, and the autonomy of the individual. Moreover, the essays with an Athenian focus shed new light on the vexed question of whether it was possible for Athenians to think of themselves as tyrannical in any way. As a whole, the collection presents a nuanced survey of how competing ideologies and desires, operating through the complex associations of the image of tyranny, struggled for predominance in ancient cities and their citizens.
Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens
Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens write by David M. Pritchard. This book was released on 2015-07-01. Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In his On the Glory of Athens, Plutarch complained that the Athenian people spent more on the production of dramatic festivals and "the misfortunes of Medeas and Electras than they did on maintaining their empire and fighting for their liberty against the Persians." This view of the Athenians' misplaced priorities became orthodoxy with the publication of August Böckh's 1817 book Die Staatshaushaltung der Athener [The Public Economy of Athens], which criticized the classical Athenian dēmos for spending more on festivals than on wars and for levying unjust taxes to pay for their bloated government. But were the Athenians' priorities really as misplaced as ancient and modern historians believed? Drawing on lines of evidence not available in Böckh's time, Public Spending and Democracy in Classical Athens calculates the real costs of religion, politics, and war to settle the long-standing debate about what the ancient Athenians valued most highly. David M. Pritchard explains that, in Athenian democracy, voters had full control over public spending. When they voted for a bill, they always knew its cost and how much they normally spent on such bills. Therefore, the sums they chose to spend on festivals, politics, and the armed forces reflected the order of the priorities that they had set for their state. By calculating these sums, Pritchard convincingly demonstrates that it was not religion or politics but war that was the overriding priority of the Athenian people.
War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens
War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens write by David Pritchard. This book was released on 2010-12-23. War, Democracy and Culture in Classical Athens available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.
