Nicholas F Jones
Biographic Data
| ID | 959039 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nicholas F Jones |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nicholas F |
| FAMILY NAME | Jones |
| SIGNATURE | JONES N F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5964-8037 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 129 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 35 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Ionian tribes
“Tribes” is the conventional but misleading rendering of Greek phylai (singular, phylê ), the principal units segmenting the populations and/or territories of many, perhaps originally all, Greek city‐states. Just as in the case of the three ancestral phylai of the Dorians, Ionians inherited a set of four phylai , with an attested distribution at Athens and, to the east, on the Ionian islands and along the Ionian seaboard.
P aulin I smard . Democracy’s Slaves
The fact of slavery in ancient Greece is explicit in the primary written sources beginning with the Linear B tablets documenting the Late Bronze “Mycenaean” age and continuing with that age’s questionably historical Trojan War, celebrated in the much later epic poems of the archaic poet Homer. Still later, classical Athens’s chattel slave population may have equaled the free population of citizens and resident aliens (the one number we have from …
Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple
Reviewed by: Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple: Ancient Acharnai by Danielle L. Kellogg Nicholas F. Jones Danielle L. Kellogg. Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple: Ancient Acharnai, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xiv, 348. $125.00. ISBN 978–0-19–964579–4. “Marathon fighters” and “men of maple” are among the characterizations of the elders of Acharnai who serve as the chorus in Aristophanes’ Acharnians produced at the Lenaea in 425 B.C…
Trittys, trittyes
Among other meanings it has, the noun trittys (plural trittyes ) denotes one of three divisions of a phyle (or “tribe”) at Athens, both before and after the democratic reform of Kleisthenes in 508/7 BCE .
Demes, Attic
Previously existing settlements of Attica became “demes” ( demoi , singular demos ) when, upon the creation of the democracy in 508/7 BCE , Kleisthenes imposed on the land of Attica an elaborate territorial organization of which the demes were the basic units.
Ionian tribes
“Tribes” is the conventional but misleading rendering of Greek phylai (singular, phyle ), the principal units segmenting the populations and/or territories of many, perhaps originally all, Greek city‐states. Just as in the case of the three ancestral phylai of the Dorians, Ionians inherited a set of four phylai , with an attested distribution at Athens and, to the east, on the Ionian islands and along the Ionian seaboard.
Dorian tribes
“Tribes” is the conventional but misleading rendering of Greek phylai (singular, phyle ), the principal units segmenting the populations and/or territories of many, perhaps originally all, city‐states. Just as in the case of the four ancestral phylai of the Ionians, Dorians inherited a set of three phylai , with an attested historical distribution among the Peloponnesian city‐states and their colonial foundations, on the islands of the southern A…
Rural Athens Under the Democracy
"In Rural Athens Under the Democracy, Nicholas F. Jones attempts to reconstruct the world of Athens beyond the urban center during the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. on its own terms, establishing that the area surrounding the city was dominated by a distinctively nonurban society and culture." "The author approaches his task from the perspective of the exurb and targets prevailing notions of a thoroughly citified Athens, even though contemporar…
Pliny the Younger's Vesuvius "Letters" (6.16 and 6.20)
“Associations,” Solon’s Law, and the Democracy
The title of this work identifies as its subject the associations of classical Athens. It is of course incumbent upon us, as a preliminary to our investigation, to define the meaning of the term “association.” As it turns out, this is not as easy a task as it might at first seem. For one thing, any naive philological approach involving the isolation of a Greek synonym for the English “association” must be ruled out as a possibility. To be sure, s…
The Isolation of the Demes
From the previous chapter it will be clear that the Kleisthenic deme was bounded in two different ways: by the rule whereby membership was determined by descent (the constitutional deme) or by declared and possibly marked boundaries (the territorial deme). It is natural to ask, next, whether, and to what degree, these social and physical boundaries served to separate a given deme from other demes or from the outside world of Attica generally. Did…
The Phylai
If phyletai did not regularly fraternize or feel or express strong bonds of attachment with each other qua phyletai, it does not follow that the organization was entirely without vitality or purpose. In fact, the phylai will emerge as vigorous, purposeful organizations thanks in large part to the ambitions and energies of a relatively few individuals, usually but not demonstrably in every instance their officers. What do we know about these phyle…
“Clubs,” Schools, Regional, and Cultic Associations
By way of introducing the present chapter, it will be useful to review briefly what we have accomplished up to this point. In chapters 2 through 6, sustained attention was given to the relevant aspects of the internally organized segments of the Kleis thenic public organization: the demes (chapters 2, 3, and 4) and the phylai (chapters 5 and 6). The immediately preceding chapter was devoted to an association independent of that public organizatio…
The Organization of the Cretan City in Plato’s Laws
We have now completed study of the attested associations of the classical period with respect to their relation to the central government and, in the light of that relation, to their place in the greater state of Athens. Our findings must stand or fall on their own to the extent that they are supported or not by the evidentiary record for the actual design and functioning of those associations. Nonetheless, any corroboration forthcoming from othe…
Government and Associations
The democratic government of classical Athens, despite its well-known overt egalitarian features, imposed severe limitations upon the political aspirations of the populations of Athens and Attica. Egalitarianism itself, by definition, absolutely precluded claims to privilege based on the traditional distinctions of bloodline, background, or merit. The ideology’ s impact extended to all matters involving the use of sortition or decided by votes of…
Post-Macedonian Associations at Athens
Subject Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Political Theory Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Documents of the Internally Organized Phylai
Subject Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Political Theory Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
The Phratries
Superficially, the phratries resembled the internally organized segments of the public organization in that they were open only to citizens and in that all citizens seem to have been eligible for admission. As, too, with the demes and (as an automatic consequence) the larger groups of which the demes were components, the phylai, membership in this or that phratry was determined exclusively on the basis of de scent, with the father obligated to de…
Title Pages
The Demes Definitions and Membership
Like its predecessor, the new public organization created by Kleisthenes comprised three tiers of units: phylai,trittyes, and demes. At each of the levels, the units, as varying types and quantities of contemporary evidence reveal, were internally organized as more or less independent associations. The phyle associations will be treated at length in chapters 5 and 6. The trittys associations, as noted in the Introduction, have left only a few tra…
Solon's Law on Associations
Subject Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Political Theory Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Dedication
The Demes
Thus far, the phenomenon of exclusion, initially broached in chapter 2, has been considered only in respect to people situated outside the community of the demotai, broadly defined. But the constitutional deme also harbored a large population of “outsiders” within itself, within the households of its members and within its territorial boundaries. Among these “outsiders” were first and foremost the womenfolk of the demotai, principally their wives…
Introduction The Subject
The subject of this work is the associations of ancient Athens during the so-called classical period, more precisely under the democracy of free Athens from its foundation by Kleisthenes in 508/7 down to the Macedonian takeover in 321 B.C. A further limitation of the subject is indicated by the subtitle, The Response to Democracy, for our goal will not be to provide a complete accounting of all associations during our period, but rather to invest…
The Phylai
The demes, in both their constitutional and territorial modes, were able, by virtue of their physical remove from the urban center, reinforced by the deliberate cultivation of isolation from other deme associations, to maintain a vigorous solidary community independent from life in Athens. And it was in this community that, I am arguing, resided a distinctive “response” to perhaps the most limiting characteristic of the central government of Athe…
Public Organization in Ancient Greece
The Associations of Classical Athens
Jones’ book examines the associations of ancient Athens under the classical democracy (508/7-321 BC) in light of their relations to the central government. Associations of all types--village communities, cultic groups, brotherhoods, sacerdotal families, philosophical schools, and others--emerge as fundamentally similar instances of Aristolian koinoniai. Each, it is argued, acquired its distinctive character in response to particular features of t…
Public Organization in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek city-states typically administered themselves through more or less permanent divisions of their populations or territories. The Athenian system of phylai (“tribes”), trittyes (“Thirds”) & demes (“villages”) is the familiar example, but something is known of the arrangements of about 200 other states representing all regions of the Greek world. Drawing upon the predominantly epigraphic record, Dr. Jones provides the first comprehensi…
Excursions in Epichoric History
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Aiginetan Independence Chapter 3 Aiginetan Membership in the Peloponnesian League Chapter 4 The Chronology of the Conflict between Athens and Aigina in Herodotus Book 6 Chapter 5 Xanthippos, the Father of Perikles and the Prutaneis of the Naukraroi Chapter 6 Residential Restrictions of the Athenian Ostracized Chapter 7 Melesias, Thoukidides Melesiou, and the Aiginetans Chapter 8 Autonomoi kata tas Spondas Chapter …
Public Organization in Ancient Greece
Pliny the Younger's Vesuvius "Letters" (6.16 and 6.20)
War, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome
The Athenian Phylai as Associations
Nicholas F. Jones, The Athenian Phylai as Associations: Disposition, Function, and Purpose, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1995), pp. 503-542
A Commentary on the Aristotelian Athenaion Politeia
Public Organization in Ancient Greece
Ancient Greek city-states typically administered themselves through more or less permanent divisions of their populations or territories. The Athenian system of phylai (“tribes”), trittyes (“Thirds”) & demes (“villages”) is the familiar example, but something is known of the arrangements of about 200 other states representing all regions of the Greek world. Drawing upon the predominantly epigraphic record, Dr. Jones provides the first comprehensi…
Public Organization in Ancient Greece
"The Organization of the Kretan City in Plato's "Laws
Public Organization in Ancient Greece
War, Women, and Children in Ancient Rome
The Athenian Phylai as Associations
Nicholas F. Jones, The Athenian Phylai as Associations: Disposition, Function, and Purpose, Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Vol. 64, No. 4 (Oct. - Dec., 1995), pp. 503-542
“Associations,” Solon’s Law, and the Democracy
The title of this work identifies as its subject the associations of classical Athens. It is of course incumbent upon us, as a preliminary to our investigation, to define the meaning of the term “association.” As it turns out, this is not as easy a task as it might at first seem. For one thing, any naive philological approach involving the isolation of a Greek synonym for the English “association” must be ruled out as a possibility. To be sure, s…
The Isolation of the Demes
From the previous chapter it will be clear that the Kleisthenic deme was bounded in two different ways: by the rule whereby membership was determined by descent (the constitutional deme) or by declared and possibly marked boundaries (the territorial deme). It is natural to ask, next, whether, and to what degree, these social and physical boundaries served to separate a given deme from other demes or from the outside world of Attica generally. Did…
The Phylai
If phyletai did not regularly fraternize or feel or express strong bonds of attachment with each other qua phyletai, it does not follow that the organization was entirely without vitality or purpose. In fact, the phylai will emerge as vigorous, purposeful organizations thanks in large part to the ambitions and energies of a relatively few individuals, usually but not demonstrably in every instance their officers. What do we know about these phyle…
“Clubs,” Schools, Regional, and Cultic Associations
By way of introducing the present chapter, it will be useful to review briefly what we have accomplished up to this point. In chapters 2 through 6, sustained attention was given to the relevant aspects of the internally organized segments of the Kleis thenic public organization: the demes (chapters 2, 3, and 4) and the phylai (chapters 5 and 6). The immediately preceding chapter was devoted to an association independent of that public organizatio…
The Organization of the Cretan City in Plato’s Laws
We have now completed study of the attested associations of the classical period with respect to their relation to the central government and, in the light of that relation, to their place in the greater state of Athens. Our findings must stand or fall on their own to the extent that they are supported or not by the evidentiary record for the actual design and functioning of those associations. Nonetheless, any corroboration forthcoming from othe…
Government and Associations
The democratic government of classical Athens, despite its well-known overt egalitarian features, imposed severe limitations upon the political aspirations of the populations of Athens and Attica. Egalitarianism itself, by definition, absolutely precluded claims to privilege based on the traditional distinctions of bloodline, background, or merit. The ideology’ s impact extended to all matters involving the use of sortition or decided by votes of…
Post-Macedonian Associations at Athens
Subject Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Political Theory Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Documents of the Internally Organized Phylai
Subject Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Political Theory Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
The Phratries
Superficially, the phratries resembled the internally organized segments of the public organization in that they were open only to citizens and in that all citizens seem to have been eligible for admission. As, too, with the demes and (as an automatic consequence) the larger groups of which the demes were components, the phylai, membership in this or that phratry was determined exclusively on the basis of de scent, with the father obligated to de…
Title Pages
The Demes Definitions and Membership
Like its predecessor, the new public organization created by Kleisthenes comprised three tiers of units: phylai,trittyes, and demes. At each of the levels, the units, as varying types and quantities of contemporary evidence reveal, were internally organized as more or less independent associations. The phyle associations will be treated at length in chapters 5 and 6. The trittys associations, as noted in the Introduction, have left only a few tra…
Solon's Law on Associations
Subject Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Political Theory Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Dedication
The Demes
Thus far, the phenomenon of exclusion, initially broached in chapter 2, has been considered only in respect to people situated outside the community of the demotai, broadly defined. But the constitutional deme also harbored a large population of “outsiders” within itself, within the households of its members and within its territorial boundaries. Among these “outsiders” were first and foremost the womenfolk of the demotai, principally their wives…
Introduction The Subject
The subject of this work is the associations of ancient Athens during the so-called classical period, more precisely under the democracy of free Athens from its foundation by Kleisthenes in 508/7 down to the Macedonian takeover in 321 B.C. A further limitation of the subject is indicated by the subtitle, The Response to Democracy, for our goal will not be to provide a complete accounting of all associations during our period, but rather to invest…
The Phylai
The demes, in both their constitutional and territorial modes, were able, by virtue of their physical remove from the urban center, reinforced by the deliberate cultivation of isolation from other deme associations, to maintain a vigorous solidary community independent from life in Athens. And it was in this community that, I am arguing, resided a distinctive “response” to perhaps the most limiting characteristic of the central government of Athe…
Abbrevations
Subject Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Political Theory Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Excursions in Epichoric History
Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Aiginetan Independence Chapter 3 Aiginetan Membership in the Peloponnesian League Chapter 4 The Chronology of the Conflict between Athens and Aigina in Herodotus Book 6 Chapter 5 Xanthippos, the Father of Perikles and the Prutaneis of the Naukraroi Chapter 6 Residential Restrictions of the Athenian Ostracized Chapter 7 Melesias, Thoukidides Melesiou, and the Aiginetans Chapter 8 Autonomoi kata tas Spondas Chapter …
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