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The book provides a comprehensive study of Demosthenes’ Against Leptines as a document for the reconstruction of Athenian fourth-century politics, law and public economy. The importance of the speech has been increasingly recognized in recent years, with research on Athenian lawmaking highlighting its centrality and the inadequacy of previous accounts, and work on honours for benefactors and on the liturgical system stressing its importance for understanding the development and conceptualization of euergetism. The speech is the earliest and only extensive ancient account of the ideological, theoretical and moral underpinnings of these institutions and developments. The introduction and commentary offer a comprehensive treatment of these aspects, providing historians with key insights into Athenians conceptions of public service, public honour and reciprocity. Other work has stressed the importance of the speech for the study of the Greek public economy, and the introduction and commentary make these aspects central. The Against Leptines stands at the crossroads of some of the liveliest and most important current discussions in Greek history, and this commentary aims to advance our historical understanding in these areas.

Demosthenes --- Speeches, addresses, etc., Greek --- Oratory, Ancient. --- Discours grecs --- Eloquence antique --- Translations into Italian. --- Traductions italiennes --- Demosthenes. --- Athens (Greece) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Politics and government --- Early works to 1800. --- Politique et gouvernement --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Forensic orations --- Oratory, Ancient --- Law, Greek --- Law --- Greek law --- Law, Ancient --- Greek orations --- Greek speeches --- Acts, Legislative --- Enactments, Legislative --- Laws (Statutes) --- Legislative acts --- Legislative enactments --- Jurisprudence --- Legislation --- Arguments, Legal --- Legal arguments --- Oral pleading --- Speeches, addresses, etc. --- Trial practice --- Forensic oratory --- History --- Demosfen --- Dīmūstīn --- Demóstenes --- Démosthène --- דמוסתנס --- Δημοσθένης --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Aḟiny (Greece) --- Atene (Greece) --- Atʻēnkʻ (Greece) --- Ateny (Greece) --- Athen (Greece) --- Athēna (Greece) --- Athēnai (Greece) --- Athènes (Greece) --- Athinai (Greece) --- Athīnā (Greece) --- Αθήνα (Greece) --- Economic history. --- Demostene --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Economics --- Adversus Leptinem (Demosthenes) --- To 1500 --- Greece --- Speech of Demosthenes against the law of Leptines (Demosthenes) --- Demosthenis Oratio adversus Leptinem (Demosthenes) --- Oratio adversus Leptinem (Demosthenes) --- Dēmosthenous pros Leptinēn (Demosthenes) --- Pros Leptinēn (Demosthenes) --- Oration against Leptines (Demosthenes) --- Oration of Demosthenes against the law of Leptines (Demosthenes) --- Athens. --- economic history. --- legislation. --- Athens --- economic history --- legislation

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In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens and the political thought which it produced. However, while Athenian civic life and thought in the Classical period have been intensively studied, these aspects of the Hellenistic period have so far received much less attention. This volume seeks to bring together the two areas of research, shedding new light on these complementary parts of the history of the ancient Greek polis. The essays collected here encompass historical, philosophical, and literary approaches to the various Hellenistic responses to and adaptations of Classical Athenian politics. They survey the complex processes through which Athenian democratic ideals of equality, freedom, and civic virtue were emphasized, challenged, blunted, or reshaped in different Hellenistic contexts and genres. They also consider the reception, in the changed political circumstances, of Classical Athenian non- and anti-democratic political thought. This makes it possible to investigate how competing Classical Athenian ideas about the value or shortcomings of democracy and civic community continued to echo through new political debates in Hellenistic cities and schools. Looking ahead to the Roman Imperial period, the volume also explores to what extent those who idealized Classical Athens as a symbol of cultural and intellectual excellence drew on, or forgot, its legacy of democracy and vigorous political debate. By addressing these different questions it not only tracks changes in practices and conceptions of politics and the city in the Hellenistic world, but also examines developing approaches to culture, rhetoric, history, ethics, and philosophy, and especially their relationships with politics.

Democracy --- History --- Athens (Greece) --- Politics and government. --- E-books --- Hellenism --- History. --- Democracy. --- Demokratie. --- Démocratie --- Hellenismus. --- Politisches Denken. --- Rezeption. --- Athen. --- Greece.

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"The study of Archaic Greece has undergone a fundamental transformation in recent decades. Whereas studies up to the 1980s had favoured narratives that converged on the more tangible reality of the Classical period and emphasized radical change, the increase in archaeological data and the cultural turn have led to an emphasis on long-term developments and continuities. After an introduction to the state of research, the volume offers a wide range of studies under the headings "Approaches on early-Archaic Greece," "Citizens and Citizen-States," and "Leaders and Reformers" ranging from Homer to Solon and circling around the central problem of continuity and change in Archaic Greece"--

Civilization --- History --- World history --- Universal history --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Barbarism --- Civilisation --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Civilization. --- Homer. --- Solon, --- Greece --- Greece. --- Politics and government

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There is a long history of successful engagement between social science and classical studies. This new collection of essays surveys the current state of the new field of 'social science Greek history' and demonstrates the potential of this interdisciplinary field.

Greece --- History --- Civilization --- Civilization. --- To 146 B.C. --- Greece. --- HISTORY / Ancient / General.

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