Alternatives to Athens

In 1993 the world celebrated the 2500th anniversary of the birth of democracy in ancient Athens, whose polis — or citizen state — is often viewed as the model ancient Greek state. In an age when democracy has apparently triumphed following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe, it tends to be forgetten that the democratic citizen state was only one of many forms of political community in Greek antiquity. This volume aims to redress the balance by showing that democratic Athens was not the model ancient Greek state, and focuses on a range of city states operating a variety of non-democratic political systems in the ancient Greek world. Eighteen essays by established and younger historians examine alternative political systems and ideologies: oligarchies, monarchies, and mixed constitutions, along with diverse forms of communal and regional associations such as ethnoi, amphiktyonies, and confederacies. The papers, which span the length and breadth of the Hellenic world from the Balkans and Anatolia to Magna Graecia and North Africa, highlight the immense political flexibility and diversity of ancient Greek civilization

Absolute monarchy · Ancient Greece · Ancient Greek · Ancient history · City-state · Civilization · Communism · Constitution · Constitutional monarchy · Constitutionalism · Democracy · Direct democracy · Diversity (politics · Geography · Ideology · Macedonian · Monarchy · Political science · Politics · Redress · Representative democracy · State (computer science · Byzantine Studies and History · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classics · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Law · Greece · politics and government

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• The Early Roman Empire

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• Early Urbanism in Cyrenaica

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• Lykisch und Hittitisch

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• Early Lesbos between east and west

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• The Identification of pastoralist sites Within the context of estate-based agriculture in ancient Greece

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• Neolithic and Bronze Age Settlement in Western Macedonia

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• The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity

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