The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond: Essays in honour of John K. Davies

by: Archibald, Z. Haywood, J.

About The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond
The pioneering ideas of John Kenyon Davies, one of the most significant Ancient Historians of the past half century, are celebrated in this collection. A distinguished cast of contributors, including Alain Bresson, Nick Fisher, Edward Harris, John Prag, Robin Osborne, and Sally Humphreys, focus on the nexus of socio-political and economic problems that have preoccupied Davies since the publication of his defining work Athenian Propertied Families in 1971. The scope of Davies's interest has ranged widely in conceptual, chronological, and geographical terms, and the essays here reflect many of his long-term concerns with the writing of Greek history, its methods and materials.

Table of contents
Preface
1 Imaginary propertied families: kinship in epic poetry S. C. Humphreys
2 'Charis, sweetest of gods': wealth and reciprocity in Classical Athens Nick Fisher
3 Herodotus and the social contexts of memory in Ancient Greece: the individual historian and his community Edward M. Harris
4 From Croesus to Pausanias: tragic individuals in early Greek historiography Jan Haywood
5 Euergetism and the public economy of Classical Athens: the initiative of the deme Robin Osborne
6 The priesthoods of the Eteoboutadai Stephen Lambert
7 Tegeas from Torone and some truths about ancient markets Zosia Halina Archibald
8 At the roots of a revolution. Land ownership, citizenship and military service in Macedonia before and after Philip II Manuela Mari
9 A twenty-first century Philippic A. J. N. W. Prag with J. H. Musgrave and R. A. H. Neave
10 Apollo, the tutelary god of the Seleucids and Demodamas of Miletus Krzysztof Nawotka
11 From Xerxes to Mithridates: kings, coins and economic life at Kelainai-Apamela Alain Bresson
12 John Davies, Greek historian P. J. Rhodes
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The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond: Essays in honour of John K. Davies

by: Archibald, Z. Haywood, J.

• ISBN-13: 9781910589731 / 978-1-910589-73-1
• ISBN-03: 191058973X / 1-910589-73-X
• The Classical Press of Wales, Swansea, 2019