The Greek City States: A Source BookPolitical activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added. |
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Table des matières
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Women and Children | 163 |
Economic Life | 181 |
Religion | 198 |
Other Cities | 214 |
Beyond the Single City | 227 |
The Hellenistic and Roman Periods | 276 |
Bibliography | 310 |
Index of Names and Subjects | 326 |
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Achaeans Aeschines Aetolians affairs Agamemnon agora alliance allies Amphictyony appointed by lot Arcadians archon archonship Argos Aristotle army assembly Athenian Constitution Athens basileus Boeotian called citizen body citizenship city’s Cleisthenes command Corinth Corinthians council decree Delian League Delphi deme democracy Demosthenes different drachmae elected envoys ephors father federation festival fifth century fight find fine first fourth century gerousia give Greece Greek Greek cities Greek Historical Inscriptions Hellenica helots Herodotus hoplites i–ii influence Inscriptiones Ionians jury-court king land large number leaders Lycurgus Macedon Meiggs and Lewis Messenians metics oath Odysseus offer office officials oligarchy oracle organisation passage Pausanias peace Peloponnese Peloponnesian Peloponnesian War Pericles perioikoi Persians Philip phratry Plataea Plutarch polemarch political proposed prytany Rhetra Rhodes and Osborne sacred sacrifices sanctuary sent ships slave Socrates Solon Sparta Spartiates speech texts Thebans Thebes Thessaly Thucydides tion treaty tribe trierarchs tyranny tyrant vote women Xenophon Zeus
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Page 230 - King Artaxerxes thinks it just that the cities in Asia should belong to him, as well as Clazomenae and Cyprus among the islands, and that the other Greek cities, both small and great, should be left independent, except Lemnos, Imbros, and Scyros ; and these should belong, as of old, to the Athenians. But whichever of the two parties does not accept this peace, upon them I will...
Page 110 - The poor were called dependants and sixth-parters, since it was for the rent of a sixth that they worked the fields of the rich. All the land was in the hands of a few, and if the poor failed to pay their rents both they and their children were liable to sei2ure.
Page 111 - To Athens, to their divinely-founded homeland, I brought back many persons who had been sold, some unjustly some justly; some of these had fled out of dire necessity, they no longer spoke the Attic tongue after wandering in my places; and others who were subjected here to shameful slavery, fearing the whims of their masters, I made into free men
Page 136 - Formerly there were ten Corn Commissioners [Sitophylaces] , elected by lot, five for Piraeus, and five for the city; but now there are twenty for the city and fifteen for Piraeus. Their duties are, first, to see that the unprepared...
Page 54 - ... (either because the best men rule or because they rule with a view to what is best for the state and for its members) ; while when the multitude govern the state with a view to the common advantage, it is called by the name common to all the forms 3 of constitution,
Page 30 - Damasias was archon and remained in office for two years and two months, until he was expelled by force.
Page 262 - For the good fortune of the Athenians and the allies of the Athenians. So that the Spartans shall allow the Greeks to be free and autonomous, and to live at peace occupying their own territory in security...
Page 164 - My dear, I beg you not to be too much distressed. No one is going to send me down to Hades before my proper time. But Fate is a thing that no man born of woman, coward or hero, can escape. Go home now, and attend to your own work, the loom and the spindle, and see that the maidservants go on with theirs. War is men's business; and this war is the business of every man in Ilium, myself above all.
Page 122 - Athenian white lekythoi, which were manufactured in great quantities in the second half of the fifth century and the first half of the fourth.
Page 126 - Pericles was the first man to provide payment for jury service, as a political measure to counter the generosity of Cimon. Cimon was as rich as a tyrant: he performed the public liturgies lavishly; and he maintained many of his fellow demesmen, for any man of Laciadae who wished could go to him each day and obtain his basic needs, and all his land was unfenced, so that anyone who wished could enjoy the fruit. Pericles' property was insufficient for this kind of service. He was therefore advised by...
