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The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble - How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective (Paperback)
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The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble - How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective (Paperback)
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This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the
Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture,
came to be - and why they had the highly unusual and influential
form they took. After reviewing early city-state formation, and the
economic underpinnings of city-state society, three key chapters
examine the way the Greeks developed their unique society. The
spear, scroll and pebble encapsulate the book's core ideas. The
Spear: city-state Greeks developed a citizen-militia military
system that gave relatively equal importance to each
citizen-warrior, thereby emboldening the citizen-warriors to demand
political rights. The Pebble: the resultant growth of collective
political systems of oligarchy and democracy led to thousands of
citizens forming the sovereign element of the state; they made
political decisions through communal debate and voting. The Scroll:
in order for such systems to function, a shared information base
had to be created, and this was done by setting up public notices
of laws, proposed policies, public meeting agendas, and a host of
other information. To access this information, these military and
political citizens had to be able to read. Billows examines the
spread of schools and literacy throughout the Greek world, showing
that the male city-state Greeks formed the world's first-known mass
literate society. He concludes by showing that it was the
mass-literate nature of the Greek city-state society that explains
the remarkable and influential culture the classical Greeks
produced.
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