Alternatives to Athens Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece

by Brock, Roger; Hodkinson, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780198152200
• ISBN10: 0198152205
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-03-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Contributors	xi
Abbreviations	xiv
Note on Transliteration	xvii
Introduction: Alternatives to the Democratic Polis	1	(34)
Roger Brock
Stephen Hodkinson
VARIETIES OF POLIS ORGANIZATION
Alternatives to Democracy
Theognis: An Alternative to Democracy	35	(17)
Robin Lane Fox
Megara's Mafiosi: Timocracy and Violence in Theognis	52	(16)
Hans van Wees
Exchange and Stasis in Archaic Mytilene	68
Nigel Mitchell
Cyrene: Typical or Atypical?	82	(14)
Barbara Mitchell
Friends and Foes: Monarchs and Monarchy in Fifth-century Athenian Democracy	103	(16)
David Braund
Oligarchs in Athens	119	(18)
P. J. Rhodes
Alternative Democracies
Syracusan Democracy: `Most Like the Athenian'?	137	(15)
N. K. Rutter
Aristotle and the Mixed Constitution	152	(15)
Andrew Lintott
The Alternative Polis
The Polis in Italy: Ethnicity, Colonization, and Citizenship in the Western Mediterranean	167	(22)
Kathryn Lomas
COMMUNITIES BEYOND THE POLIS
Ethne
Politics without the Polis: Cities and the Achaean Ethnos, c.800-500 BC	189	(23)
Catherine Morgan
Space, Hierarchy, and Community in Archaic and Classical Macedonia, Thessaly, and Thrace	212	(22)
Zosia Halina Archibald
A Wholly Non-Aristotelian Universe: The Molossians as Ethnos, State, and Monarchy	234	(25)
J. K. Davies
Homeric and Macedonian Kingship	259	(10)
Pierre Carlier
The `Kings' of Lycia in the Achaemenid Period	269	(11)
Antony G. Keen
Amphiktyonies and Confederacies
The Pre-polis Polis	280	(13)
W. G. Forrest
Argead and Aetolian Relations with the Delphic Polis in the Late Fourth Century BC	293	(15)
Michael Arnush
Problems of Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy 370-362 BC	308	(19)
James Roy
Land-use, Ethnicity, and Federalism in West Crete	327	(22)
N. V. Sekunda
Bibliography	349	(39)
Index	388