Duplouy Alain - Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece

The chapters making up this volume were initially delivered as papers during two conferences on Greek archaic citizenship held at the University of Leeds in 2009 and at the Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne in 2010. Thanks to lively and lasting discussions between the participants, they have been reworked for publication over the past few years. To this core series was added the essay presented by Maurizio Giangiulio, as well as a historiographic introduction and a conclusion by the editors. We are very grateful to all the authors, who contributed to the success of these two events and transformed the discussions into fascinating chapters.

The whole book has been too long in the making. As editors, we are mainly responsible for the regrettable delays in putting the chapters together or having various non-English written papers translated as soon as would have been desirable. We can only apologize to our contributors for the delays, which have obliged them to revise the paperssometimes up to ten timesand continuously update the references. We thank them for their enduring patience and support.

Various institutions have supported this long-term project, starting with the British Academy, which initially granted a visiting scholarship in 2009 at the University of Leeds to one of us and supported the cost of the first conference. The second conference, held in Paris, was made possible thanks to the special joint project of the Fondation Maison des Sciences de lHomme (Paris) and the British Academy, with additional funds coming from the Universit Paris 1 Panthon-Sorbonne and the UMR 7041 (Archologies et sciences de lAntiquit).

Our thanks also go to Charlotte Loveridge and Georgina Leighton, our editors at Oxford University Press, and to our copy-editor Monica Kendall, as well as to the three anonymous reviewers for early comments on preliminary versions of the papers and a revised version of the whole book.

AD and RB

May 2017