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Title Alternatives to Athens : varieties of political organization and community in ancient Greece / editors, Roger Brock, Stephen Hodkinson
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 393 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Theognis / Robin Lane Fox -- Megara's Mafiosi / Hans Van Wees -- Exchange and statis in archaic Mytilene / Nigel Spencer -- Cyrene / Barbara Mitchell -- Friends and foes / David Braund -- Oligarchs in Athens / P.J. Rhodes -- Syracusan democracy / N.K. Rutter -- Aristotle and the mixed constitution / Andrew Lintott -- Polis in Italy / Kathryn Lomas -- Politics without the Polis / Catherine Morgan -- Space, hierarchy, and community in archaic and classical Macedonia, Thessaly, and Thrace / Zosia Halina Archibald -- Wholly non-Aristotelian universe / J.K. Davies -- Homeric and Macedonian kingship / Pierre Carlier -- Kings of Lycia in the Achaemenid Period / Antony G. Keen -- Pre-polis polis / W.G. Forrest -- Argead and Aetolian relations with the Delphic Polis in the late fourth century bc / Michael Arnush -- Problems of democracy in the Arcadian confederacy 370-362 BC / James Roy -- Land-use, ethnicity, and federalism in west Crete / N.V. Sekunda
Summary Democractic Athens is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. However, there were many forms of political community in Greek antiquity. This text highlights the immense flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilisation and politics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Comparative government.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
Comparative government
Politics and government
SUBJECT Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057114
Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057074
Subject Greece
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Brock, Roger
Hodkinson, Stephen
ISBN 9780191541445
0191541443
9780199258109
0199258104
9780191717697
019171769X