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Citizenship in Classical Athens

By: Josine Blok

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Citizenship in Classical Athens

By: Josine Blok

This book argues that citizenship in Athens was primarily a religious identity, shared by male and female citizens alike.

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0521191459

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Citizenship in Classical Athens

By: Josine Blok

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Citizenship in Classical Athens

By: Josine Blok

What did citizenship really mean in classical Athens? It is conventionally understood as characterised by holding political office. Since only men could do so, only they were considered to be citizens, and the community (polis) has appeared primarily as the scene of men's political actions. However, Athenian law defined citizens not by political office, but by descent. Religion was central to the polis and in this domain, women played prominent public roles. Both men and women were called 'citizens'. On a new reading of the evidence, Josine Blok argues that for the Athenians, their polis was founded on an enduring bond with the gods. Laws anchored the polis' commitments to humans and gods in this bond, transmitted over time to male and female Athenians as equal heirs. All public offices, in various ways and as befitting gender and age, served both the human community and the divine powers protecting Athens.

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1108165737

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9781108165730

The Early Amazons

Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth

By: Josine Blok

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The Early Amazons

Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth

By: Josine Blok

The Early Amazons offers a new understanding of the ancient Amazon myth, situating mythical representations in the realm of cultural history. The first section examines how the Amazons have presented a challenge to views on history, myth and gender in classical mythology from the late eighteenth century up to the impact of structuralism. Topics included are nineteenth-century historiography and the interest in linguistics. The second section sheds new light on the culture of archaic Greece, offering a coherent assessment of literary and visual representations. Taking mythical narrative as a form of oral storytelling, it shows the emergence of the Amazon motif and its meaning in the world of epic. Iconographical analysis reveals how the visual arts have made a contribution of their own to the imaginary presence of the Amazons.

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BRILL

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9004301437

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9789004301436

Drawing Lots

From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece

By: Irad Malkin,Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History Irad Malkin,Josine Blok,Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Civilization Josine Blok

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Drawing Lots

From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece

By: Irad Malkin,Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History Irad Malkin,Josine Blok,Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Civilization Josine Blok

This book offers the first comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central, ubiquitous institution of ancient Greek society. Led by an egalitarian mindset, Greeks drew lots as a matter of course to distribute inheritance, booty, sacrificial meat, and lands, to mix groups, select individuals, and set turns. Lot-oracles were used for divination; otherwise, the gods guarded the justice of the procedure but rarely determined the outcome. When drawing lots was gradually applied to polis governance, classical Athens made sortition the basis of the first democracy in human history. A Greek innovation, drawing lots for governance inspires new democratic politics today.

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Oxford University Press

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0197753477

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The Early Amazons

Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth

By: Josine Blok

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Modern and Ancient Perspectives on a Persistent Myth

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Citizenship in Classical Athens

Citizenship in Classical Athens

Citizenship in Classical Athens

Citizenship in Classical Athens

The Early Amazons

The Early Amazons

Drawing Lots

Drawing Lots

The Early Amazons

The Early Amazons

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