Divided Power in Ancient Greece - Decision Making Institutions in Classical Hellenistic Polis

This book examines the division of power in the Ancient Greek city-states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, revealing Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control.

Sommario

• Preface


• Abbreviations


• 1: Introduction


• Part I: Divided Power and Delegation


• 2: Divided Power in Athenian Decree-Making


• 3: Divided Power in Mytilene and Megalopolis: Delegation Practice beyond Athens


• Part II: Divided Power and Control of Legality


• 4: Divided Power and Eunomia: Deliberative Procedures in Ancient Sparta


• 5: Divided Power in the Athenian Assembly: Adeia and Fifth-Century Deliberative Ideology


• 6: Divided Power and Judicial Review: Graph¿ Paranom¿n in the Decision-Making of the Greek Poleis


• 7: Epilogue


• Bibliography


• Index

Info autore

Alberto Esu is Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Zurich. He studied in Italy and the UK, completing his PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 2018. He was Leverhulme Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Mannheim from 2019 to 2022 and Assistant Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nottingham in 2022-23. He works on Greek institutional, legal, and socio-political history in the Classical and Hellenistic periods.

Riassunto

This book examines the division of power in the Ancient Greek city-states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, revealing Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alberto Esu, Alberto (Postdoctoral Fellow Esu
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 14.03.2024
• EAN: 9780198883951
• ISBN: 978-0-19-888395-1
• Pagine: 304
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Antichità; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, LAW / Legal History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Political structure & processes, Legal History, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Political structure and processes