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ntiqtutirs A HANDBOOK GREEK CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY A HANDBOOK GREEK
CONSTITUTIONAL HISTOBY A. PL J. - aEEEKLDGE, M. A. LATE lECTURER
AND 1' KLLOW OK ItEfiTlrtmb ( JOLLfitiK, A. ND crURER IN ANCIENT
IIIbTORY AT BRAhKNUblil ( JOLLLGU, OAKOIlD MACMILLAN AND CO.,
LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1914 TO MY FA THEE PEEFAGE THIS
little book Is meant to be of assistance to those who find
difficulty in mastering what I have often found regarded as the
least attractive, probably because it is the least understood,
portion of Greek history. The merest glance at its pages will be
sufficient to show how little it attempts to compete with such
standard works on Greek Political Antiquities as some of those
mentioned in the brief bibliography which I have given on page xv.
My debt to the works of Hermann, Schomann, Gilbert, and to the
scholars who have written in Handbooks or in Dictionaries of
Antiquities, is very great indeed \ for no one can move a step in
Greek Constitutional Law without consult ing authorities as
remarkable for the fulness as for the accuracy of their detail.
But, apart from the obviously smaller compass of this treatise, my
object has been somewhat different from that of most of these
writers. Completeness of detail could not be aimed at in a work of
this size; such an attempt would have changed what professes to be
a History into a too con cise, and therefore almost unintelligible,
Manual of Political Antiquities. My purpose has been to give in a
brief narrative form the main lines of development of Greek Public
Law, to represent the different types of states in the order of
their development, and to pay more attentionto the working than to
the mere structure of constitutions. I have attempted, in the
introductory chapter of this work, to offer some considera viii
OUTLINES OF GREEK CONSTITUTIONAL HISTORY tions which justify a
separate study of Greek political institu tions, so rarely
attempted in this country; consequently it is needless to
anticipate at this point the reasons for a procedure which,
perhaps, does not need defence. Throughout the work I have cited
the original passages from ancient authors on which every fact or
assertion of any degree of importance is based. Considerations of
space forbade more ample quotations from the texts of the original
authorities or a fuller discussion of passages which have given
rise to differences of interpretation. In citing inscriptions
references have been given to the Handbooks which I believed to be
most easily accessible to students. In no case have I referred to
the Corpus Inscriptiomm Graecarum or the Corpus Inscriptionum
AUkarwn where I knew that the inscription was to be found in the
Manuals of Hicks, Dittenberger, and Cauer. My thanks are due to my
wife for valuable suggestions in the correction of the proofs, for
a great share of the labour in preparing the Index, and for the map
which accompanies this voln e - A. R J. G. OXFOTID, June 1896.
CONTENTS ( The references are to the pages) CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
SECT. The constitutional aspect of Greek History, 1. Primary
political COP captions, 4; the State and the Constitution, 4;
political office, 6; the Citizen, 7; the Law, 8; public and piivate
law, 9; authoritative character of law, 10. CHAPTER II EARLY
DEVELOPMENT OP THE GREEK CONSTITUTIONS THROUGH MONARCHY,
ARISTOCRACY, AND TYRANNY TOCONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT Origin of the
city-state; the tribe and the clan, 12. Origin of Greek monarchy,
14; character of the heroic monarchy, 15; downfall of this
monarchy, 17. Transfer of government to the clans, 19; nature of
the clan, 20, The early aristocracies, 21; tendency to oligarchic
govern ment, 22. Impulse to colonisation, 24. Early Greek tyranny,
25; its origin, 25; the tyrants, 27; character of their government,
30; how far was it constitutional, 31; political and social
consequences of their rule, 32; downfall of tyranny, 33. Rise of
con
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