Exile, Ostracism, and Democracy : : The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece / / Sara Forsdyke.
This book explores the cultural and political significance of ostracism in democratic Athens. In contrast to previous interpretations, Sara Forsdyke argues that ostracism was primarily a symbolic institution whose meaning for the Athenians was determined both by past experiences of exile and by its...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2009 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Abbreviations and Conventions
- Introduction. Problems, Methods, Concepts
- Chapter One. Setting The Stage
- Chapter Two. The Politics of Exile and the Crisis of the Archaic Polis
- Chapter Three. From Exile to Ostracism
- Chapter Four. Ostracism and Exile in Democratic Athens
- Chapter Five. Exile and Empire
- Chapter Six. Exile in the Greek Mythical and Historical Imagination
- Conclusion
- Appendix One. The Date of the Athenian Law of Ostracism
- Appendix Two. Ostracism Outside Athens
- Appendix Three. Exile in Spartan Myth and History
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index