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

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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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Main Author: Forsdyke, Sara, 1967-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Power (Social sciences)
Politics and government
Political crimes and offenses.
Exile (Punishment)
Democracy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Ideologies > Democracy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Penology.
Democratie > Grece > Athenes > Histoire.
Crimes et delits politiques > Grece > Athenes > Histoire.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales) > Grece > Athenes > Histoire.
Bannissement > Grece > Athenes > Histoire.
Democracy > Greece > Athens > History.
Political crimes and offenses > Greece > Athens > History.
Power (Social sciences) > Greece > Athens > History.
Exile (Punishment) > Greece > Athens > History.
Greece > Athens.
Athenes (Grece) > Politique et gouvernement.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
History.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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