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Athenian Democratic Origins - and Other Essays (Hardcover, New)
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Athenian Democratic Origins - and Other Essays (Hardcover, New)
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In these interconnected essays the late Geoffrey de Ste. Croix
defends the institutions of the Athenian democracy, showing that
they were much more practical, rational, and impartial than has
usually been acknowledged. A major essay provides a new view of
Aristotle's use of sources in The Constitution of the Athenians, on
which so much of our knowledge of Athenian constitutional history
depends. Ste. Croix also argues that commercial factors had much
less influence on Greek politics than modern scholars tend to
assume, and that there was no such thing in any Greek state as a
`commercial aristocracy'. As always, he works out these general
positions with the utmost lucidity and pungency, and in meticulous
detail. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished
essays by a great radical historian will still constitute a major
contribution to contemporary debate. The editors and other
specialists have supplied an updating Afterword to each chapter,
and the book contains a thorough index.
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