Product Description: Western democracies often trace their political roots back to Ancient Greece. While politics today may seem the dusty domain of lawmakers and pundits, in the classical era virtually no aspect of life was beyond its reach. Political life was not limited to acts of a legislature, magistrates, and the courts but routinely included the activities of social clubs, the patronage system, and expression through literature, art, and architecture...read more

Product Description: Much of the evidence—literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial—from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subject matter, and intended audience. The result has been the assertion of an undifferentiated monolithic "Athenian" citizen regime as often as not identifiably urban in its lifestyle, preoccupations, and attitude...read more

Product Description: Jones' book examines the associations of ancient Athens under the classical democracy (508/7-321 B.C.) 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 Aristotelian koinoniai...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Scholarly and rigorous in approach, this book provides a single-volume, holistic, integrated view of ancient Greek history -- going well beyond the traditional political/military perspective to explore a wide range of social, cultural, and economic topics...read more

Product Description: Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Public Organization in Ancient Greece, hardcover, Good, In Good condition. Schorlarly pencil marks in margin throughout. Dust Jacket is in Good to Fair condition with chipping and shelfwear to the edges and a little dirtied...read more