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Stasis and Stability - Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404-146 BC (Hardcover)
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Stasis and Stability - Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404-146 BC (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
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The continued vitality of the Greek city (polis) in the centuries
after the Peloponnesian War has now been richly demonstrated by
historians. But how does that vitality relate to the prominence in
the same period of both civic unrest, or stasis, and utopian
political thinking? In order to address this question, this volume
uses exile and exiles as a lens for investigating the later
Classical and Hellenistic polis and the political ideas which
shaped it. The issue of the political and ethical status of exile
and exiles necessarily raised fundamental questions about civic
inclusion and exclusion, closely bound up with basic ideas of
justice, virtue, and community. This makes it possible to interpret
the varied evidence for exile as a guide to the complex, dynamic
ecology of political ideas within the later Classical and
post-Classical civic world, including both taken-for-granted
political assumptions and more developed political ideologies and
philosophies. In the course of its investigation, Stasis and
Stability discusses the rich evidence for varied forms of expulsion
and reintegration of citizens of poleis across the Mediterranean,
analysing the full range of relevant civic institutions, practices,
and debates. It also investigates civic activity and ideology
outside the polis, addressing the complex and diverse political
organization, agitation, and ideas of exiles themselves. Using this
evidence, the volume develops an argument that the rich Greek civic
political culture and political thought of this period were marked
by significant extremes, contradictions, and indeterminacies in
ideas about the relative value of solidarity and reciprocity,
self-sacrifice and self-interest. Those features of the polis'
political culture and political thought are integral to explaining
both civic unrest and civic flourishing, both stasis and stability.
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