Athenian Democratic Origins

A defence of the Athenian democracy, showing how even its oddest features made sense. It illustrates the different factors influencing Athenian politics - for instance, trade and commercial interests mattered very little.

... no serious reader, converted or not, could emerge unimpressed by the sheer command of evidence and calibre of argument on display here. The jewel of the volume.

Autorentext
Geoffrey de Ste. Croix was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford from 1953 until 1977. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972. He published Origins of the Peloponnesian War in 1972 and The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World in 1981; the latter book was translated into Spanish and Greek, and won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial prize for 1982.



Klappentext
This is a defense of the Athenian democracy by a great radical historian. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix shows how even its oddest features made sense, and illustrates the different factors influencing Athenian politics--for instance, trade and commercial interests mattered very little. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays remain fresh and innovative.


Zusammenfassung
In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of Aristotle's use of sources in The Constitution of the Athenians, on which so much of our knowledge of Athenian constitutional history depends. Ste. Croix also argues that commercial factors had much less influence on Greek politics than modern scholars tend to assume, and that there was no such thing in any Greek state as a `commercial aristocracy'. As always, he works out these general positions with the utmost lucidity and pungency, and in meticulous detail. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays by a great radical historian will still constitute a major contribution to contemporary debate. The editors and other specialists have supplied an updating Afterword to each chapter, and the book contains a thorough index.

Inhalt
Editors' Introduction
1: The Solonian Census Classes and the Qualifications for Cavalry and Hoplite Service
2: Five Notes on Solon's Constitution
3: Solon, the Horoi and the Hektemoroi
4: Cleisthenes I: The Constitution
5: Cleisthenes II: Ostracism, Archons, and Strategoi
6: The Athenian Citizenship Laws
7: Aristotle's Athenaion Politeia and Early Athenian History
8: The Metra in Aristotle, Eth. Nic. V.vii.1134b 35-35a3
9: How Far was Trade a Cause of Early Greek Colonization?
10: But What About Aegina?
11: Herodotus and King Cleomenes of Sparta
Index

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