Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science

Herausgeber: Canevaro, Mirko; Ober, Josiah; Gray, Benjamin; Erskine, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Note: this will be printed as PPC (not jacketed, like previous volumes). Please move the text so that it's sitting 21mm from the spine. 'This volume is a manifesto for the implementation of the methods of social science in the field of ancient Greek history. After a methodological introduction by Josiah Ober that sets the debate, the nineteen chapters, followed by a conclusion by John Davies, beautifully illustrate the fruitfulness of the approach.' Alain Bresson, The University of Chicago Social science has been a source of fresh and productive approaches to understanding ancient Greece, while classical Greek history and culture has been a touchstone for social theorists since the nineteenth century. This innovative collection of essays surveys the current state of 'social science Greek history' and demonstrates the potential of this interdisciplinary field. Substantial bodies of work that have contributed in fundamental ways to our understanding of classical Greece and its cultural legacy were produced in twentieth century, by employing methods from anthropology, sociology and psychology. More recently, the use of quantitative methods and formal theory, drawn from contemporary political science, economics and sociology, has led to a new understanding of ancient Greek economic and political development. Meanwhile, normative considerations, drawn from contemporary political philosophy, have led to a richer understanding of Greek political thought and Greek institutional innovations - notably including democracy and the rule of law. This volume analyses and innovatively develops these different intersections between Greek history and the social sciences. Mirko Canevaro is Reader in Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Benjamin Gray is Lecturer in Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London. Josiah Ober is Constantine Mitsotakis Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. Cover image: Crane appearing from behind marble Parthenon column, Athens, Attica, Greece (c) Nick Dale / Design Pics / Getty Images Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN 978-1-4744-2177-5 Barcode

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 608
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 150mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1089g
• ISBN-13: 9781474421775
• ISBN-10: 1474421776
• Artikelnr.: 50857688

Autorenporträt

Mirko Canevaro is Professor of Greek History, at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of The Documents in the Attic Orators (OUP, 2013). He is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Law (OUP, 2016) and The Hellenistic and Early-Imperial Reception of Athenian Democracy and Political Thought (OUP, 2016). He is one of the series editors for our New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History series and a co-editor of an edited collection in our Leventis Studies series. Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Benjamin Gray is lecturer in Ancient History, Birkbeck, University of London and also, until August 2018, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow, Institut für Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt-Universität Berlin. Josiah Ober is Constantine Mitsotakis Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is the author of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece (Princeton, 2015), Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens (Princeton, 2008), Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together (Princeton, 2005), Political Dissent in Democratic Athens (Princeton, 1998), The Athenian Revolution (Princeton, 1996), Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens (Princeton, 1989), Fortress Attica (Brill, 1985). He is co-author of Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece (University of California Press, 2007).

Inhaltsangabe

List of Contributors
Introduction
Section I: Theory and Method
1. Behavioural Economics and Economic Activity in Classical Athens, David
Lewis
2. The City in Chorus: For a Choral History of Athenian Society, Vincent
Azoulay and Paulin Ismard
3. Approaching the Hellenistic Polis through Modern Political Theory: the
Public Sphere, Pluralism and Prosperity, Benjamin Gray
Section II: Institutions
4. Majority Rule vs. Consensus: the practice of democratic deliberation in
the Greek poleis, Mirko Canevaro
5. Rethinking Mass and Elite: Decision-Making in the Athenian Law-Courts,
Federica Carugati and Barry R. Weingast
6. Ancient and Modern Conceptions of the Rule of Law, Sara Forsdyke
7. What can Data drawn from the Hansen-Nielsen Inventory tell us about
Political Transitions in Ancient Greece?, Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew
Hanssen
Section III: Behaviour
8. Patronage in Ancient Sparta, Ingvar B. Mæhle
9. Understanding the politics of Pericles around 450 BCE: the benefits of
an economic perspective, Carl Hampus Lyttkens and Henrik Gerding
10. Cash and crowns: a network approach to Greek athletic prizes, Christian
Mann
Section IV: Wealth, Poverty and Inequality
11. Property Security and its Limits in Classical Greece, Emily Mackil
12. Economic (in)equality and democracy: the political economy of poverty
in Athens, Claire Taylor
13. The Distribution of Wealthy Athenians in the Attic Demes, James
Kierstead and Roman Klapaukh
Section V: Interstate Relations
14. Exploring inter-community political activity in fourth-century Greece,
Peter Liddel
15. Hegemonic Legitimacy (and its Absence) in Classical Greece, Polly Low
16. The Koinon Dogma, the Mercenary Threat, and the Consolidation of the
Democratic Revolutions in mid 5th Century Sicily, David Teegarden
Section VI: Technology and Innovation
17. Muddle wrestling: grappling for conceptual clarity in archaic money,
Peter van Alfen
18. Entanglement, Materiality, and the Social Organization of Construction
Workers in Classical Athens, Diane Harris Cline
19. Technology and Society in Classical Athens: A study of the social
context of mining and metallurgy at Laurion, Kim van Liefferinge
Overview: Greek history at a crossroads, John K. Davies