Canevaro Mirko - Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science

EDINBURGH LEVENTIS STUDIES 9

Previously published

Edinburgh Leventis Studies 1
Word and Image in Ancient Greece
Edited by N. Keith Rutter and Brian A. Sparkes

Edinburgh Leventis Studies 2
Envy, Spite and Jealousy: The Rivalrous Emotions in Ancient Greece
Edited by David Konstan and N. Keith Rutter

Edinburgh Leventis Studies 3
Ancient Greece: From the Mycenaean Palaces to the Age of Homer
Edited by Sigrid Deger-Jalkotzy and Irene S. Lemos

Edinburgh Leventis Studies 4
Pursuing the Good: Ethics and Metaphysics in Platos Republic
Edited by Douglas Cairns, Fritz-Gregor Herrmann and Terry Penner

Edinburgh Leventis Studies 5
The Gods of Ancient Greece: Identities and Transformations
Edited by Jan N. Bremmer and Andrew Erskine

Edinburgh Leventis Studies 6
Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras
Edited by John Marincola, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones and Calum Maciver

Edinburgh Leventis Studies 7
Defining Greek Narrative
Edited by Douglas Cairns and Ruth Scodel

Edinburgh Leventis Studies 8
Greek Laughter and Tears: Antiquity and After
Edited by Margaret Alexiou and Douglas Cairns

EDINBURGH LEVENTIS STUDIES 9

ANCIENT GREEK HISTORY AND CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL SCIENCE

Edited by
Mirko Canevaro, Andrew Erskine,
Benjamin Gray and Josiah Ober

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CONTENTS

Introduction
Josiah Ober

1 Behavioural Economics and Economic Behaviour in Classical Athens
David Lewis

2 The City in Chorus: For a Choral History of Athenian Society
Vincent Azoulay and Paulin Ismard

3 Approaching the Hellenistic Polis through Modern Political Theory: The Public Sphere, Pluralism and Prosperity
Benjamin Gray

4 Majority Rule vs. Consensus: The Practice of Democratic Deliberation in the Greek Poleis
Mirko Canevaro

5 Rethinking Mass and Elite: Decision-Making in the Athenian Law-Courts
Federica Carugati and Barry R. Weingast

6 Ancient and Modern Conceptions of the Rule of Law
Sara Forsdyke

7 What Can Data Drawn from the Hansen-Nielsen Inventory Tell Us about Political Transitions in Ancient Greece?
Robert K. Fleck and F. Andrew Hanssen

8 Patronage in Ancient Sparta
Ingvar B. Mhle

9 Understanding the Politics of Pericles around 450 BCE: The Benefits of an Economic Perspective
Carl Hampus Lyttkens and Henrik Gerding

10 Cash and Crowns: A Network Approach to Greek Athletic Prizes
Christian Mann

11 Property Security and its Limits in Classical Greece
Emily Mackil

12 Economic (In)Equality and Democracy: The Political Economy of Poverty in Athens
Claire Taylor

13 The Distribution of Wealthy Athenians in the Attic Demes
James Kierstead and Roman Klapaukh

14 Exploring Intercommunity Political Activity in Fourth-Century Greece
Peter Liddel

15 Hegemonic Legitimacy (and its Absence) in Classical Greece
Polly Low

16 The Koinon Dogma, the Mercenary Threat and the Consolidation of the Democratic Revolutions in Mid-Fifth-Century Sicily
David A. Teegarden

17 Muddle Wrestling: Grappling for Conceptual Clarity in Archaic Greek Money
Peter van Alfen

18 Entanglement, Materiality and the Social Organisation of Construction Workers in Classical Athens
Diane Harris Cline

19 Technology and Society in Classical Athens: A Study of the Social Context of Mining and Metallurgy at Laurion
Kim Van Liefferinge

Overview: Greek History at a Crossroads
John K. Davies

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS

Vincent Azoulay is Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University Paris-Est Marne-la-Valle. A specialist in Athenian political and cultural history, he is the author of Xenophon and the Graces of Power (2004; English trans. 2018), Pericles of Athens (2010, English trans. 2014) and The Tyrant-Slayers of Ancient Athens: A Tale of Two Statues (2014, English trans. 2017).

Mirko Canevaro is Reader in Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. His publications include The Documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus (2013) and Demostene, Contro Leptine: Introduzione, traduzione e commento storico (2016), as well as a co-authored commentary of Aristotles Politics 4.

Federica Carugati is the Associate Director of the Ostrom Workshop, and a Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science and Law at Indiana University, Bloomington. Her research focuses on the development of pre-modern institutions, and on the lessons that these may hold for rethinking institution building in todays developing world.

Diane Harris Cline is Associate Professor of History and Classics at the George Washington University. A specialist in Greek history and material culture, she is the author of The Treasures of the Parthenon and Erechtheion (1995) and National Geographics The Greeks: An Illustrated History (2006).

John K. Davies was Rathbone Professor of Ancient History and Classical Archaeology at the University of Liverpool 19772003. His principal research interests and publications have concerned classical Greece, but increasingly also economic history (especially of the Hellenistic world), epigraphy, sanctuaries and cults, and the potential explanatory power of the social sciences.

Andrew Erskine is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. A specialist in Hellenistic history, he is the author of Roman Imperialism (2009), Troy between Greece and Rome (2001) and The Hellenistic Stoa (1990).

Robert K. Fleck is Professor in the John E. Walker Department of Economics at Clemson University. His fields of research include political economy, law and economics, and development economics. His recent publications focus on the causes and consequences of major political and economic transitions, including those in ancient Greece.

Sara Forsdyke is Professor of Classical Studies and History at the University of Michigan. She specialises in archaic and classical Greek history, political thought and historiography. She is the author of Exile, Ostracism and Democracy (2005) and Slaves Tell Tales (2012). In addition, she recently co-edited the Oxford Handbook of Thucydides