Athens, 403 BC : A Democracy in Crisis?

by: Azoulay, V. Ismard, P.

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Athens, 403 BC
A Democracy in Crisis?

Part of Classical Scholarship in Translation

Authors:Vincent Azoulay, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, ParisPaulin Ismard, Université d'Aix-MarseilleTranslator: Lorna Coing, University of Cambridge

At the end of the fifth century BC, the Peloponnesian War resulted in Athens' shattering defeat by Sparta. Taking advantage of the debacle, a commission of thirty Athenians abolished the democratic institutions that for a century had governed the political life of the city and precipitated a year-long civil war. By autumn 403 BC, democracy was restored. Inspired by the model of the ancient chorus, this strikingly innovative book interprets a crucial moment in classical history through the prism of ten remarkable individuals and the shifting groups which formed around them. The former include more familiar names like the multifaceted Sokrates, the oligarch Kritias and the rhetorician Lysias, but also lesser-known figures like the scribe Nikomachos, the former slave Gerys and the priestess Lysimakhe. What leads a community to tear itself apart, even disintegrate, then rebuild itself? This question, explored through profound reflection on the past, echoes our tormented present.

Offers a fresh and innovational interpretation of a key event in Athenian political history: the civil war of 404/403 BC and the refoundation of democracy
Creative reflections on the past are now seen to have much contemporary resonance
Boldly and controversially argues for sustained reflection on the necessary nature of conflict within any democratic regime

Table of Contents
Introduction. Towards a choral history
1. Critias and the oligarchs
2. Thrasybulus and the democratic resistance
3. Archinus or the victory of the 'moderates'
4. Socrates and the voices of neutrality
5. Lysimache: the priestess of Athena and her doubles
6. Eutherus and the precarious workers
7. Hegeso or the family torn asunder
8. Gerys and the world of the merchant agora
9. Nicomachus and the servants of the city
10. Lysias, a multi-faceted man
Conclusion. The city in chorus.

Iscrizioni di Cos : Vol. I: Testo, Vol. II: Tavole

by: Segre, M.

• ISBN-13: 9788870628302 / 978-88-7062-830-2
• ISBN-03: 8870628302 / 88-7062-830-2
• L'Erma di Bretschneider, Roma, 1993

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Athens, 403 BC : A Democracy in Crisis?

by: Azoulay, V. Ismard, P.

• ISBN-13: 9781009490962 / 978-1-00-949096-2
• ISBN-03: 1009490966 / 1-00-949096-6
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2025

Price: 49,90 EURO

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