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Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy : The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece /

This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its...

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Autor principal: Forsdyke, Sara, 1967-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Chronology; Abbreviations and Conventions; INTRODUCTION: Problems, Methods, Concepts; CHAPTER ONE: Setting the Stage; CHAPTER TWO: The Politics of Exile and the Crisis of the Archaic Polis; CHAPTER THREE: From Exile to Ostracism; CHAPTER FOUR: Ostracism and Exile in Democratic Athens; CHAPTER FIVE: Exile and Empire; CHAPTER SIX: Exile in the Greek Mythical and Historical Imagination; CONCLUSION; Appendix One: The Date of the Athenian Law of Ostracism; Appendix Two: Ostracism outside Athens; Appendix Three: Exile in Spartan Myth and History; Bibliography.