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Ritual, finance, politics: Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis

Osborne, Robin, 1957-, Hornblower, Simon., Lewis, David M. (David Malcolm)

Year: 1994.

Publisher: Clarendon Press.

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Frontmatter

LIST OF FIGURES

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

ABBREVIATIONS

INTRODUCTION Ritual, Finance, Politics: An Account of Athenian Democracy

PART I POLITICS

1 The 2500th Anniversary of Cleisthenes' Reforms and the Tradition of Athenian Democracy

2 Psephological Heroes

3 Learning from History: Categories and Case-Histories

4 Comic Ridicule and Democracy

5 The Ostracism of Hyperbolus

6 How Violent was Athenian Society?

7 Law and the Lawgiver in the Athenian Democracy

8 Aeschines and Athenian Democracy

9 Writing, Reading, and Democracy

10 Two New Attic Inscriptions

11 Europe and Democracy

PART II FINANCE

12 Accounts and Accountability in Classical Athens

13 Freedom of Information and Accountability: The Inventory Lists of the Parthenon

14 Money Talks: Rhetor, Demos, and the Resources of the Athenian Empire

15 Public Auctions in Ancient Athens

PART III RITUAL

16 Something to do with Athens: Tragedy and Ritual

17 The Politics of Dedication: Two Athenian Dedications at the Sanctuary of Apollo Ptoieus in Boeotia

18 The Ritual of the Athena Nike Parapet

19 The Demos and the Priests: The Selection of Sacred Officials at Athens from Cleisthenes to Augustus

20 Athenian Religion Abroad

21 Representing Democracy: Women at the Great Dionysia

22 Children's Rights, Children's Speech and Agamemnon

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Title:

Ritual, finance, politics : Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis edited by Robin Osborne and Simon Hornblower.

Author:

Osborne, Robin, 1957-; Hornblower, Simon; Lewis, David M. (David Malcolm)

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Ritual, finance, politics : Athenian democratic accounts presented to David Lewis edited by Robin Osborne and Simon Hornblower.
Osborne, Robin, 1957-, Hornblower, Simon, Lewis, David M. (David Malcolm)
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.01459

Subject Headings:

• Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C. -- Congresses
• Athens (Greece) -- Civilization -- Congresses

Notes:

• "This book collects most of the papers delivered at an International Conference on 'The History and Archaeology of Athenian Democracy' held at Christ Church, Oxford on 27-31 July 1993"--Pref.
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