Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology

by Boegehold, Alan L.; Scafuro, Adele C.

• ISBN13: 9780801869709
• ISBN10: 0801869706
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-05-02
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr

Summary

The authors bring together a distinguished group of scholars who explore the nature and meaning of Athenian citizenship. Departing from the narrow perspective of constitutional historians, the editors' range of topics attests to a broad vision of the concepts of citizenship and civic ideology.

Author Biography

Alan L. Boegehold is professor emeritus of classics at Brown University and Distinguished Visiting Professor of classics at Amherst College. Adele C. Scafuro is associate professor of classics at Brown University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction: Bifurcations and Intersections	1	(20)
Adele C. Scafuro
Toward a New Paradigm of Athenian Citizenship	21	(13)
Philip Brook Manville
The Problem of Athenian Civic Identity	34	(11)
W. Robert Connor
Aspects of Early Athenian Citizenship	45	(12)
Frank J. Frost
Perikles' Citizenship Law Of 451/O.B.C.	57	(10)
Alan L. Boegehold
Everyman's Grave	67	(35)
Ian Morris
Civic Ideology and Counterhegemonic Discourse: Thucydides on the Sicilian Debate	102	(25)
Josiah Ober
Private Lives and Public Enemies: Freedom of Thought in Classical Athens	127	(29)
Robert W. Wallace
Witnessing and False Witnessing: Proving Citizenship and Kin Identity in Fourth-Century Athens	156	(43)
Adele C. Scafuro
The Case against Neaira and the Public Ideology of the Athenian Family	199	(18)
Cynthia Patterson
Premarital Sex, Illegitimacy, and Male Anxiety in Menander and Athens	217	(20)
David Konstan
Notes on Contributors	237