Ritual, Finance, Politics - Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis

Zusatztext a fitting tribute to this great scholar ... let me say that O. and H. have produced a meticulously edited book! and that everyone interested in Greek society! politics! religion! economics! indeed every aspect of ancient Greek society! will use this book at some time: it stands as a tribute to a great scholar and a complex and great civilization. Celebrates 2500 years of democracy Zusammenfassung This book is a celebration of two thousand five hundred years of democracy. At the same time it is a collection of essays to honour the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford. The book brings together contributions from twenty two leading scholars from Britain, Continental Europe, Israel, and America; its central themes are ritual (both in the religious and extended anthropological sense); finance, including the accountability principle which was basic to Athenian democracy; and politics. All represent significant new contributions in the field. The contributors pay especial attention to epigraphy (the editing and interpretation of inscriptions on stone), which is David Lewis' speciality. They have made full use of the newest epigraphic evidence, and discuss topics such as the purposes (including symbolic and monumental motives) for which democratic inscriptions were set up. The introduction locates individual contributions within the overall study of classical Athens and relates them to Lewis' own published work.

Product details

• Authors: Robin (University Lecturer in Ancient His Osborne, Robin Hornblower Osborne
• Assisted by: Simon Hornblower (Editor), Simon (Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History Hornblower (Editor), Hornblower Simon (Editor), Robin Osborne (Editor), Robin (University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow and Tutor Osborne (Editor), Osborne Robin (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.1994
• EAN: 9780198149927
• ISBN: 978-0-19-814992-7
• No. of pages: 426
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; European History, Ancient Greece, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Political structures: democracy, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE