In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers,
philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an
essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens
and the political thought which it produced. However, while
Athenian civic life and thought in the Classical period have been
intensively studied, these aspects of the Hellenistic period have
so far received much less attention. This volume seeks to bring
together the two areas of research, shedding new light on these
complementary parts of the history of the ancient Greek polis. The
essays collected here encompass historical, philosophical, and
literary approaches to the various Hellenistic responses to and
adaptations of Classical Athenian politics. They survey the complex
processes through which Athenian democratic ideals of equality,
freedom, and civic virtue were emphasized, challenged, blunted, or
reshaped in different Hellenistic contexts and genres. They also
consider the reception, in the changed political circumstances, of
Classical Athenian non- and anti-democratic political thought. This
makes it possible to investigate how competing Classical Athenian
ideas about the value or shortcomings of democracy and civic
community continued to echo through new political debates in
Hellenistic cities and schools. Looking ahead to the Roman Imperial
period, the volume also explores to what extent those who idealized
Classical Athens as a symbol of cultural and intellectual
excellence drew on, or forgot, its legacy of democracy and vigorous
political debate. By addressing these different questions it not
only tracks changes in practices and conceptions of politics and
the city in the Hellenistic world, but also examines developing
approaches to culture, rhetoric, history, ethics, and philosophy,
and especially their relationships with politics.
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