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Public organization in Ancient Greece : a documentary study
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ISBN: 0871691760 9780871691767 Year: 1987 Volume: 176 Publisher: Philadelphia (Pa.): American philosophical society

Rural Athens under the democracy
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ISBN: 0812237749 9786613211743 1283211742 0812202376 Year: 2004 Publisher: Philadelphia : ©2004 University of Pennsylvania Press,

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Much of the evidence-literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial-from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subject matter, and intended audience. The result has been the assertion of an undifferentiated monolithic "Athenian" citizen regime as often as not identifiably urban in its lifestyle, preoccupations, and attitude. In Rural Athens Under the Democracy, however, Nicholas F. Jones undertakes the first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct on its own terms the world of rural Attica outside the walls during the "classical" fifth and fourth centuries B.C. What he finds is a distinctly nonurban (and nonurbane) order dominated by a traditional, predominantly agrarian society and culture.Jones relies heavily upon the relatively neglected epigraphic record from the rural countryside and villages, as well as posing new questions of the well-known urban writings of Athenian historians, essayists, and philosophers and occasionally following the lead of Hesiod's agrarian poem Works and Days. From these sources he gleans new findings regarding settlement patterns, argues for a heretofore unrecognized system of personal patronage, explores relations between villages and the town of Athens, reconstructs the "Agrarian" Dionysia in several of its more important dimensions, and contrasts the realities of rural Attic culture with their various representations in contemporary literary and philosophical writings by Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and others.Building on Jones's previous publications on the ancient Greek city-state, Rural Athens Under the Democracy presents the first holistic examination of classical extramural Attica. He challenges the received view that ancient Athens in its heyday was marked by a uniform cultural, ideological, and conspicuously citified order and, in place of the perception of things rural as mere deficits in urbanity, proposes that we look at Attica outside the walls in its own right and in positive terms.

The associations of classical Athens : the response to democracy
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ISBN: 0195121759 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Oxford university press

The associations of Classical Athens
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ISBN: 1280470755 0195352831 1602563004 0585220921 9780585220925 9786610470754 6610470758 9781602563001 9781280470752 0195121759 9780195121759 0197704298 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York Oxford University Press

Politics and society in ancient Greece
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ISBN: 9780275987657 0275987655 Year: 2008 Publisher: Westport (Conn.) : Praeger,

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ISBN: 9780812202373 Year: 2011 Publisher: Philadelphia

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