Divided Power in Ancient Greece Decision-Making and Institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic Polis

by Esu, Alberto

• ISBN13: 9780198883951
• ISBN10: 0198883951
• eBook ISBN(s): 9780198884057
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-06-14
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Author Biography

Alberto Esu, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Zurich

Alberto Esu is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich. He studied in Italy and the UK, completing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2018. He was Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Mannheim from 2019 to 2022 and Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham in 2022-23. He works on Greek institutional, legal, and socio-political history in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

Table of Contents

PrefaceAbbreviations1. IntroductionPart I: Divided Power and Delegation2. Divided Power in Athenian Decree-Making3. Divided Power in Mytilene and Megalopolis: Delegation Practice beyond AthensPart II: Divided Power and Control of Legality4. Divided Power and Eunomia: Deliberative Procedures in Ancient Sparta5. Divided Power in the Athenian Assembly: Adeia and Fifth-Century Deliberative Ideology6. Divided Power and Judicial Review: GraphÄ? Paranomōn in the Decision-Making of the Greek Poleis7. EpilogueBibliographyIndex