... of the Greek dêmos in its anodyne sense, the Populus Romanus of the Republic (509 – 31 BCE) was very differently constituted and empowered from the dêmos of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. I spent quite a bit of my book Democracy: A Life explaining how and why. 2 In short, the Roman...

...Jennifer T. Roberts Abstract Recoiling from the power that Athenian democracy placed in the hands of the poor, the founding fathers of the United States took Athens as primarily an anti-model, whereas nineteenth-century defenders of slavery found Athens a very congenial model indeed, seeming...

...Barry Allen DuBois Page , Out of Athens: The New Ancient Greeks ( Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2010 ), 236 pp. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 LITTLE REVIEWS Nanno Marinatos, Minoan...

...David Konstan Robinson Eric W. , Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 ), 275 pp. © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014...

...Rebecca Bushnell Bosher Kathryn , ed., Theater Outside Athens: Drama in Greek Sicily and South Italy . ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 ), 486 pp. © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 LITTLE REVIEWS Thomas J. Heffernan, The Passion of Perpetua...

...Esther Eidinow C O M M O N K N O W L E D G E 1 8 0 Andrew T. Alwine, Enmity and Feuding in Classical Athens (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), 271 pp. Alwine cannot imagine an ancient Greek asking, Can t we all just get along? He does argue, however, that, while Athens was a feuding...

...Edith Hall The earliest ancient Greek text to narrate the resolution of a large-scale conflict by judicial means is Aeschylus's tragedy Eumenides , first performed in Athens in 458 BC. After explaining the historical context in which the play was performed—a context of acute civic discord...

.... And yet, despite this negative assessment of the institution, Socrates was willing to participate in a lottery that made him a member of the Council of Five Hundred, the supreme political body of Athens. This essay — a contribution to the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics” — attempts to explain...

...Oliver Dowlen Abstract Introducing part 2 of the Common Knowledge symposium “Antipolitics,” this essay summarizes the “untold story” of the random recruitment of citizens for political office in Western Europe. Although sortition was used extensively in ancient Athens and in late medieval Europe...

... that is characteristic of exopraxis. This article, based largely on testimonies collected in the Oral Tradition Archives of the Center for Asia Minor Studies in Athens, analyzes the temporality of exopraxis and inquires into the different but shared calendars that ordered the ritual life of Muslims and Orthodox...

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... by aristocrats: the Iliad tells us that the kings, equal in their authority, resorted to random selection when they had to settle on one among them for fighting in a duel, because voting would entail a controversial comparison of their capacities. In ancient democratic Athens, inclusion in the pool...

.... Westermann's lecturing, that he conceived an ambition—much deferred in its realization—to do research for a doctorate in ancient Greek, Roman, and Greco-Roman history. His dissertation was published in 1952: Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens, 500–200 B.C. In the quarter century between 1927...

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... . Jennifer T. Roberts is professor of classics and history at the City College of New York and the City University of New York Graduate Center. A past president of the Association of Ancient Historians, her publications include Accountability in Athenian Government ; Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic...

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... that Athena, with her self-reborn olive tree, relegated her unhappy adversary Poseidon to definitive oblivion when he came to claim the recently emerged city of Athens. But to accept this version of events means disregarding the second round, which saw the return of Poseidon, his vic- tory over the first...

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