Alternatives to Athens

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Contents......Page 8
List of Illustrations......Page 10
List of Contributors......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 15
Note on Transliteration......Page 18
1. Introduction: Alternatives to the Democratic Polis......Page 20
VARIETIES OF POLIS ORGANIZATION......Page 52
The Alternative Polis......Page 53
2. Theognis: An Alternative to Democracy......Page 54
3. Megara’s Mafiosi: Timocracy and Violence in Theognis......Page 71
4. Exchange and Stasis in Archaic Mytilene......Page 87
5. Cyrene: Typical or Atypical?......Page 101
6. Friends and Foes: Monarchs and Monarchy in Fifth-century Athenian Democracy......Page 122
7. Oligarchs in Athens......Page 138
8. Syracusan Democracy: ‘Most Like the Athenian’?......Page 156
9. Aristotle and the Mixed Constitution......Page 171
10. The Polis in Italy: Ethnicity, Colonization, and Citizenship in the Western Mediterranean......Page 186
COMMUNITIES BEYOND THE POLIS......Page 206
Amphiktyonies and Confederacies......Page 207
11. Politics without the Polis: Cities and the Achaean Ethnos, c.800–500 BC......Page 208
12. Space, Hierarchy, and Community in Archaic and Classical Macedonia, Thessaly, and Thrace......Page 231
13. A Wholly Non-Aristotelian Universe: The Molossians as Ethnos, State, and Monarchy......Page 253
14. Homeric and Macedonian Kingship......Page 278
15. The ‘Kings’ of Lycia in the Achaemenid Period......Page 288
16. The Pre-polis Polis......Page 299
17. Argead and Aetolian Relations with theDelphic Polis in the Late Fourth Century BC......Page 312
18. Problems of Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy 370–362 BC......Page 327
19. Land-use, Ethnicity, and Federalism in West Crete......Page 346
Bibliography......Page 368
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X......Page 412