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Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds - From Sparta to Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds - From Sparta to Late Antiquity (Hardcover)
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This volume has its origin in the 14th University of South Africa
Classics Colloquium in which the topic and title of the event were
inspired by Josiah Ober's seminal work Mass and Elite in Democratic
Athens (1989). Indeed the influence this work has had on later
research in all aspects of the Greek and Roman world is reflected
by the diversity of the papers collected here, which take their cue
and starting point from the argument that, in Ober's words (1989,
338): 'Rhetorical communication between masses and elites... was a
primary means by which the strategic ends of social stability and
political order were achieved.' However, the contributors to the
volume have also sought to build further on such conclusions and to
offer new perceptions about a spread of issues affecting mass and
elite interaction in a far wider number of locations around the
ancient Mediterranean over a much longer chronological span. Thus
the conclusions here suggest that once the concept of mass and
elite was established in the minds of Greeks and later Romans it
became a universal component of political life and from there was
easily transferred to economic activity or religion. In casting the
net beyond the confines of Athens (although the city is also
represented here) to - amongst others - Syracuse, the cities of
Asia Minor, Pompeii and Rome, and to literary and philosophical
discourse, in each instance that interplay between the wider body
of the community and the hierarchically privileged can be shown to
have governed and directed the thoughts and actions of the
participants.
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