This book offers the first comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central, ubiquitous institution of ancient Greek society. Led by an egalitarian mindset, Greeks drew lots as a matter of course to distribute inheritance, booty, sacrificial meat, and lands, to mix groups, select individuals, and set turns. Lot-oracles were used for divination; otherwise, the gods guarded the justice of the procedure but rarely determined the outcome. When drawing lots was gradually applied to polis governance, classical Athens made sortition the basis of the first democracy in human history. A Greek…mehr
This book offers the first comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central, ubiquitous institution of ancient Greek society. Led by an egalitarian mindset, Greeks drew lots as a matter of course to distribute inheritance, booty, sacrificial meat, and lands, to mix groups, select individuals, and set turns. Lot-oracles were used for divination; otherwise, the gods guarded the justice of the procedure but rarely determined the outcome. When drawing lots was gradually applied to polis governance, classical Athens made sortition the basis of the first democracy in human history. A Greek innovation, drawing lots for governance inspires new democratic politics today.
Irad Malkin is Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University, a Foreign Member of the Athens National Academy, a member of the European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History, and the author of numerous books, including A Small Greek World. Josine Blok is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Civilization at Utrecht University, a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, and co-founder and chair of the European Network for the Study of Ancient Greek History. Her previous books include Citizenship in Classical Athens.
Inhaltsangabe
* List of abbreviations * Preface * Introduction Greeks drawing lots: the practice and the mindset of egalitarianism * Part I The lottery mindset: religion and society * 1. Lotteries divine and human: the world of the Homeric epics * 2. When does the lot reflect the will of the gods? Lots, oracles, divination, and the notion of moira * 3. Sacrifice and feast: social values and the distribution of meat by lot * Part II Equal and fair: inheritance, colonization, and mixture * 4. Partible Inheritance by lot * 5. Drawing lots on the Athenian stage * 6. Founding cities and sharing in the polis: equality, allotment, and civic mixture * Part III Drawing lots in polis governance * 7. Setting the stage * 8. Drawing lots for polis office * 9. Drawing lots for governance: a political innovation * Part IV Conclusions * 10. Conclusions and implications * 11. Drawing lots today: fair distribution and a stronger democracy * Appendix A Lexicographical survey: lottery practices in the archaic and classical periods * Bibliography * Index * Index locorum
* List of abbreviations * Preface * Introduction Greeks drawing lots: the practice and the mindset of egalitarianism * Part I The lottery mindset: religion and society * 1. Lotteries divine and human: the world of the Homeric epics * 2. When does the lot reflect the will of the gods? Lots, oracles, divination, and the notion of moira * 3. Sacrifice and feast: social values and the distribution of meat by lot * Part II Equal and fair: inheritance, colonization, and mixture * 4. Partible Inheritance by lot * 5. Drawing lots on the Athenian stage * 6. Founding cities and sharing in the polis: equality, allotment, and civic mixture * Part III Drawing lots in polis governance * 7. Setting the stage * 8. Drawing lots for polis office * 9. Drawing lots for governance: a political innovation * Part IV Conclusions * 10. Conclusions and implications * 11. Drawing lots today: fair distribution and a stronger democracy * Appendix A Lexicographical survey: lottery practices in the archaic and classical periods * Bibliography * Index * Index locorum
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