A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic (eBook)

Dean Hammer (Herausgeber)

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2014
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-87778-4 (ISBN)

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A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities.

• Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters—one Greek, one Roman—to highlight comparisons between cultures
• Examines the types of relationships that sustained participatory communities, the challenges they faced, and how they responded
• Sheds new light on participatory contexts using diverse methodological approaches
•  Brings an international array of scholars into dialogue with each other

Dean Hammer is the John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College (USA).  He is the author of, amongst others, The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002), Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008), and Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine (2015).

Inhalt

Notes on Contributors ix

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1
Dean Hammer

1 Reading the Past (On Comparison) 8
David Konstan

Part I The Emergence of Participatory Communities 21

2 Why Greek Democracy? Its Emergence and Nature in Context 23
Kurt A. Raaflaub

3 Why Roman Republicanism? Its Emergence and Nature in Context 44
Michael P. Fronda

Part II Constructing a Past 65

4 Autochthony and Identity in Greek Myth 67
Kathryn A. Morgan

5 Agriculture and Identity in Roman Myth 83
Mary Jaeger

Part III Demokratia and Res Publica 99

6 Liberty, Equality, and Authority: A Political Discourse in Greek Participatory Communities 101
Vincent Farenga

7 Liberty, Equality, and Authority: A Political Discourse in the Later Roman Republic 113
Malcolm Schofield

Part IV Institutions 129

8 The Congruence of Power: Ruling and Being Ruled in Greek Participatory Communities 131
P.J. Rhodes

9 The Incongruence of Power: The Roman Constitution in Theory and Practice 146
Henrik Mouritsen

Part V Law 165

10 Tyranny or the Rule of Law? Democratic Participation in Legal Institutions in Athens 167
David Cohen

11 The Evolution of Law and Legal Procedures in the Roman Participatory Context 179
Callie Williamson

Part VI Social Values 193

12 Informal Norms, Values, and Social Control in Greek Participatory Communities 195
Nick Fisher

13 Informal Norms, Values, and Social Control in the Roman Participatory Context 217
Valentina Arena

Part VII Power Relations and Political Groups 239

14 The Practice of Politics in Classical Athens, and the Paradox of Democratic Leadership 241
Robert W. Wallace

15 The Practice of Politics and the Unpredictable Dynamics of Clout in the Roman Republic 257
W. Jeffrey Tatum

Part VIII Rhetoric 275

16 Persuading the People in Greek Participatory Communities 277
Joseph Roisman

17 Persuading the People in the Roman Participatory Context 294
Robert Morstein-Marx

Part IX Global Contexts 311

18 Interstate Relations, Colonization, and Empire among Greek Participatory Communities 313
Sarah Bolmarcich

19 Interstate Relations, Federal States, Colonization, and Empire during the Roman Republic 329
Craige B. Champion

Part X Economic Life 347

20 Production, Trade, and Consumption in Greek Democracy 349
David W. Tandy

21 Production, Trade, and Consumption in the Roman Republic 368
Luuk de Ligt

Part XI Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion 387

22 Women and Slaves in Greek Democracy 389
Ryan K. Balot and Larissa M. Atkison

23 Women and Slaves in the Roman Republic 405
Roberta Stewart

Part XII Entertainment 429

24 Tragedy and Comedy in Greek Participatory Communities 431
Keith Sidwell

25 Tragedy and Comedy in the Roman Participatory Context 446
Shawn O'Bryhim

Part XIII Visual Culture 459

26 Art, Architecture, and Spaces in Greek Participatory Communities 461
Tonio Hölscher

27 Art, Architecture, and Space in the Roman Participatory Context 482
Ellen Perry

Part XIV Conclusion 501

28 Thinking Comparatively about Participatory Communities 503
Dean Hammer

Index 521

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"The contributions are consistently readable and often inspiring...also comprehensively and carefully documented..." Sehepunkte

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Notes on Contributors

1. Valentina Arena is Lecturer in Roman History at University College London. Her work focuses mainly on the history of ideas and political thought, its relationship with the practice of politics and the study of Roman oratory and rhetorical techniques. She is the author of Libertas and the Practice of Politics in the late Roman Republic (2012). Her essays have appeared in a wide range of scholarly journals and edited volumes.
2. Larissa M. Atkison is a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto and is currently finishing work on her dissertation, entitled “Tragic Rhetoric: Sophocles and the Politics of Good Sense.” During the 2013–2014 academic year, she will hold the Classics and Contemporary Perspectives Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of South Carolina. Atkison has contributed an entry on Sophocles to the forthcoming Blackwell Encyclopedia of Political Thought. She specializes in classical political thought, rhetoric, and contemporary democratic theory.
3. Ryan K. Balot is Professor of Political Science and Classics at the University of Toronto. The author of Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens (2001), Greek Political Thought (2006), and Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens (2014), and editor of A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (2009), Balot specializes in American, early modern, and classical political thought.
4. Sarah Bolmarcich, after a year spent in Greece studying on a Fulbright, received her PhD in Classics from the University of Virginia with a dissertation on Greek interstate diplomacy in the archaic and classical periods. She has taught at the universities of Michigan, Minnesota, and Texas (Austin), and currently teaches at the Arizona State University.
5. Craige B. Champion teaches ancient history at Syracuse University. He is the author of Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories (2004), editor of Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources (2004), one of the general editors of the Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2013), and co-editor of the forthcoming Landmark Edition of the Histories of Polybius. He is currently completing a book tentatively titled Pax Deorum: Elite Religious Practices in the Middle Roman Republic.
6. David Cohen is Emeritus Professor of Rhetoric and Classics at University of California, Berkeley and currently the director of the WSD HANDA Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Stanford and Professor of Law at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He has authored Indifference and Accountability: The United Nations and the Politics of International Justice in East Timor (2006), The Legacy of the Serious Crimes Trials in East Timor (2006), Law, Violence, and Community in Classical Athens (1995), Law, Society, and Sexuality: The Enforcement of Morals at Classical Athens (1991), and The Athenian Law of Theft (1983).
7. Luuk de Ligt is Professor of Ancient History at Leiden University. He is the author of Fairs and Markets in the Roman Empire (1993) and of Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers: Studies in the Demographic History of Roman Italy 225 BC–AD 100 (2012), and co-editor (with Simon Northwood) of People, Land, and Politics. Demographic Developments and the Transformation of Roman Italy, 300 BC–AD 14 (2008). He has published extensively on Roman economic history, the history of Roman associations, and Roman demography.
8. Vincent Farenga is Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece: Individuals Performing Justice and the Law (2006). He has published a number of articles on expressions of individualism in Greek literature and political history (especially on Greek tyranny), and he is currently completing a study of literature and justice within a global context in contemporary authors and political philosophers.
9. Nick Fisher is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at Cardiff University. He has published widely on the political, social, and cultural history of ancient Greece. He has published Aeschines, Against Timarchos (2001), Slavery in Classical Greece (1993), HYBRIS. A Study in the Values of Honour and Shame in Ancient Greece (1992), a sourcebook on Social Values in Classical Athens (1976), and many articles and co-edited volumes.
10. Michael P. Fronda is Associate Professor in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. His research focuses on domestic and interstate politics in Roman and pre-Roman Italy. He is author of Between Rome and Carthage: Southern Italy in the Second Punic War (2010) as well as articles on the Hannibalic War, Roman political culture, foreign policy and imperialism, Roman–Italian relations, and the Italiote League.
11. Dean Hammer is the John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College (USA). He has authored The Puritan Tradition in Revolutionary, Federalist, and Whig Political Theory (1998), The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002), Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008), and Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine (2015), as well as numerous articles on Greek, Roman, and modern political thought.
12. Tonio Hölscher, born in 1940, is Professor Emeritus of Classical Archaeology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He was Meyer Shapiro Visiting Professor at Columbia University in New York, Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study at Berlin, Jerome Lecturer at the University of Michigan and the American Academy in Rome, Research Professor at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome, Sather Guest Professor at the University of Berkeley and Visiting Professor at the University of California Berkeley, and Princeton. His main interests are art, policy, and society in ancient Greece and Rome, Greek and Roman urbanism, and theories of art.
13. Mary Jaeger is Professor of Classics at the University of Oregon, where she has taught since 1990. She is the author of Livy's Written Rome (1997), Archimedes and the Roman Imagination (2008), and A Livy Reader (2011).
14. David Konstan is Professor of Classics at New York University and Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Brown University. Among his books are Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres (1994), Greek Comedy and Ideology (1995), Friendship in the Classical World (1997), Pity Transformed (2001), The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature (2006), “A Life Worthy of the Gods”: The Materialist Psychology of Epicurus (2008), Terms for Eternity: Aiônios and aïdios in Classical and Christian Texts (with Ilaria Ramelli, 2007), Before Forgiveness: The Origins of a Moral Idea (2010), and Beauty: The Fortunes of an Ancient Greek Idea.
15. Kathryn A. Morgan is Professor of Classics at UCLA, where she has taught since 1996. She is the author of Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato (2000), and editor of Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and its Discontents in Ancient Greece (Austin, 2003). Her most recent book is Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century BC (forthcoming).
16. Robert Morstein-Marx is Professor of Classics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is the author of two books, Hegemony to Empire: The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C. (1995), and Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic (2004). He is also co-editor (with N. Rosenstein) of A Companion to the Roman Republic (2006). His current research focuses on political culture and communication in the late Roman Republic.
17. Henrik Mouritsen is Professor of Roman History at King's College London. He has published widely on Roman political and social history, Roman Italy and Latin epigraphy. His books include Elections, Magistrates and Municipal Elite (1988), Italian Unification (1998), Plebs and Politics (2001), and The Freedman in the Roman World (2011).
18. Shawn O'Bryhim is Professor of Classics at Franklin & Marshall College. He edited and contributed to Greek and Roman Comedy (2001) and has written several articles on Plautus, Catullus, Ovid, and ancient Mediterranean religions.
19. Ellen Perry is Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at the College of the Holy in Worcester, Massachusetts. She has published articles on Roman sarcophagi, the aesthetics of ancient painting, the history of plaster cast collections, and the Roman imitation of Greek art. Her book The Aesthetics of Emulation in the Visual Arts of Ancient Rome appeared in 2005, and she is currently writing a book about the Capitoline Temple.
20. Kurt A. Raaflaub is Professor Emeritus of Classics and History at Brown University. His research has focused on the social, political, and intellectual history of archaic and classical Greece and of the Roman Republic, and the comparative history of the ancient world. His recent books include The Discovery of Freedom in Ancient Greece (2004), War and Peace in the Ancient World...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.8.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Ancient Culture • Classical Studies • comparative politics • Democratic Systems • Demokratische Systeme • Greek, Roman, Greece, Rome, participatory communities, Ancient Greece, Ancient Rome, Greek democracy, Roman Republic, Athens, creative democracy, oligarchy, enactment, ancient history, Greek political thought, Roman political thought • Griechenland /Alte Geschichte • Humanistische Studien • Klassisches Altertum • Political Science • Politikwissenschaft • Römische Republik • Römische Republik • Vergleichende Politik
• ISBN-10: 1-118-87778-0 / 1118877780
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-87778-4 / 9781118877784