Cleisthenes the Athenian

by Leveque, Pierre; Vidal-Naquet, Pierre; Curtis, David Ames; Curtis, David Ames

• ISBN13: 9780391038844
• ISBN10: 0391038842
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-02-01
• Publisher: Prometheus Books

Table of Contents

Translator's Foreword
Acknowledgments
1993 Preface
Cleisthenes the Athenian
Author's 1963 Introduction	p. 3
The Civic Space and Time of Cleisthenes	p. 9
Isonomy and Democracy	p. 18
From Curse to Heresy: The Alcmaeonids and the End of Archaic Athens	p. 23
Appendix I: Stemma of the Alcmaeonid Family	p. 34
Appendix II: Aristophanes and the "Blazon" of the Alcmaeonids	p. 39
Cleisthenes's Models	p. 44
Geography, Sculpture, and Politics: The Geometric Spirit	p. 52
Was Cleisthenes a Pythagorean?	p. 63
Fate of a Reform, of a Genos, and of a Reformer	p. 73
Space and the City: From Hippodamus to Plato	p. 81
On the Invention of Democracy
Introduction	p. 100
Democracy: A Greek Invention	p. 102
The Athenian Democracy: False and True Questions	p. 119
The *Da- Root: Repartition and Democracy	p. 128
Appendix: Map of the Political Organization of Attica	p. 136
Notes to Cleisthenes the Athenian	p. 139
Notes to On the Invention of Democracy	p. 192
Index	p. 197
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