David Stockton

Biographic Data

ID997346
NAMEDavid Stockton
GIVEN NAMESDavid
FAMILY NAMEStockton
SIGNATURESTOCKTON D
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oxford
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS40
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1962
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1994
H-INDEX4

  • Institutions, Ideology, and Political Consciousness in Ancient Greece: Some Recent Books on Athenian Democracy

    Lisa Kallet-Marx, Josiah Ober et al.ARTICLEJournal of the History of Ideas1994

    Lisa Kallet-Marx, Institutions, Ideology, and Political Consciousness in Ancient Greece: Some Recent Books on Athenian Democracy, Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol. 55, No. 2 (Apr., 1994), pp. 307-335

  • The Classical Athenian Democracy

    Vincent J Rosivach, David StocktonARTICLEThe Classical World1992

  • The Classical Athenian Democracy

    Richard Garner, David Stockton et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1991Cited by: 8

  • Dedication

    David StocktonOTHERThe Classical Athenian Democracy1990

  • Abbreviation

    David StocktonOTHERThe Classical Athenian Democracy1990

  • Title Pages

    David StocktonOTHERThe Classical Athenian Democracy1990

  • Critics and Champions

    David StocktonCHAPTERThe classical Athenian democracy1990

    A. H. M. Jones began his essay on ‘The Athenian Democracy and its Critics’ with the observation that ‘It is curious that in the abundant literature produced in the greatest democracy of Greece there is no statement of democratic political theory’; and he went on to list among its critics the ‘Old Oligarch’, Socrates, Thucydides, Plato, and Aristotle. Aristotle ‘is the most judicial in his attitude, and states the pros and cons, but his ideal was …

  • Facts and Figures

    David StocktonCHAPTERThe classical Athenian democracy1990

    One day, during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, President Kennedy and his advisers were discussing the pros and cons of mounting an invasion of Cuba. They had as good as decided to go ahead, at which point they called into the room a senior officer of military intelligence to ask for his informed appreciation. He had come prepared, and produced a large map of the United States, which he pinned up on a board. ‘Mr President, gentlemen,’ he said, …

  • Violent Opposition

    David StocktonCHAPTERThe classical Athenian democracy1990

    That feelings had run high over the reforms of Ephialtes is clear. What is less easy to determine is whether, or for how long, any considerable number of Athenians continued to cherish hopes of reversing the situation. There were surely those among the richer and better-born citizens who would have preferred a less egalitarian system (the same can be said of modern democracies; and we have noted the continuing existence of upper-class clubs and s…

  • Politics and Politicians

    David StocktonCHAPTERThe classical Athenian democracy1990

    In a well-known passage of his Memorabilia (3. 6) Xenophon tells of a conversation between Socrates and Plato’s brother Glaucon. Glaucon, though still less than twenty years old, has his heart set on making a name for himself as a public speaker and becoming a leading politician, and despite all the efforts of his family and friends to deter .him, persists in making a laughing-stock of himself and having to be forcibly removed from the speaker’s …

  • Local and Central Government

    David StocktonCHAPTERThe classical Athenian democracy1990

    Early in 424 Aristophanes staged his comedy The Knights (Hippeis) at the Lenaean Festival. It won the first prize. It exploited the amusing fancy of presenting the Athenian people (the dêmos) as a householder, with politicians as his slave-servants. The name he gave his householder was ‘Demos Pyknitês’, ‘Mr Demos of the Pnyx’. (The ecclêsia regularly met in the Pnyx, in the shadow of the Acropolis of Athens.) Aristophanes’ choice of the adjective…

  • From Solon to Ephialtes

    David StocktonCHAPTERThe classical Athenian democracy1990

    The most authoritative account of Solon’s reforms is that which we are given by Aristotle in a brief paragraph in his Politics (1273b–1274a), which dates from about, 330: Now, as to Solon, there are those who see him as a truly radical reformer who put an end to an over-extreme oligarchy, released the body of the people [the demos] from subjection, and established the excellent constitutional blend which they call ‘the ancestral democracy’. In th…

  • The Classical Athenian Democracy

    David Stockton, D L StocktonBOOKThe classical Athenian democracy1990Cited by: 16

    The Greeks had a word for it, and the word was demokratia, a compound of demos (`the people') and kratos (`power or rule'). But it is significant that the first occurrence of the word in surviving Greek literature is in Herodotus' History, which he was writing during the third quarter of the fifth century BC. It was perhaps coined in the period following the reforms of the last decade of the sixth, which later won fame for Cleisthenes as `the man…

  • The Death of Ephialtes

    Open AccessDavid StocktonARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1982Cited by: 12References: 2

    There are certain ‘facts’ which every schoolboy knows. Every schoolboy knows, for instance, that at the Battle of Hastings King Harold was killed by a shot in his eye from an arrow; and Sir Frank Stenton's demonstration that he pretty certainly wasn't has done little to shake this conviction.1 Not every schoolboy, perhaps, but every undergraduate who studies the history of ancient Athens knows that Ephialtes was murdered. After all, that is what …

  • Cicero. A Political Biography

    S E Smethurst, David StocktonARTICLEThe Classical World1973

  • Cicero: A Political Biography

    Thomas W Africa, David StocktonREVIEWThe American Historical Review1972

  • Thirty-Five Letters of Cicero. Selected and Edited with Introductions and Notes

    Peter R Pouncey, Cicero Cicero et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1971

  • Cicero and the Ager Campanus

    David StocktonARTICLETransactions and Proceedings of…1962Cited by: 4