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1 online resource |
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Cover -- Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose: A Prisoner's Dilemma -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- PART I KEY ISSUES IN THE STUDY OF ATHENIAN OSTRACISM -- 1 Ostracism before Ostracism? -- 1.1 Was there Ostracism beyond Athens in the Archaic Period? -- 1.1.1 Traces of Ostrakophoriai in the Greek World -- 1.1.2 Ostracism and the 'Politics of Expulsion' in Archaic and Classical Greece -- 1.2 Ostracism before Ostracism in Archaic Athens? -- 1.2.1 Archaic Ostraka from the Athenian Agora and the Ostracism of Classical Times -- 1.2.2 Vaticanus Graecus 1144 and the Mirage of the So-called 'Bouleutic Ostracism' -- 1.2.3 Ostracism and the Scapegoat Ritual -- 1.3 Conclusions: The Invention of Democratic Athens -- 2 Towards a Reconstruction of Ostracism in Athens: The Facts -- 2.1 Cleisthenes or the 'Generation of Marathonomachoi'? Dating the Law about Ostracism -- 2.1.1 Ps.-Aristotle, Harpocration, and Androtion's Atthis -- 2.1.2 Cleisthenes, the Inventor of Ostracism? -- 2.2 Athenian Ostracisms of 508/507 bc-ca. 416 bc -- 2.2.1 The Extant Athenian Ostraka and the Study of the History of Ostracism -- 2.2.2 The List of Athenian Ostracisms in Athenaion Politeia and its Possible Sources -- 2.2.3 Ostracisms Attested in Literary Sources and Disputable Ostracisms -- 2.2.4 The End of Athenian Ostrakophoriai 'around 416 bc' -- 2.2.5 The Issue of Possible Ostrakophoriai Unattested in Literary Sources -- 3 Towards a Reconstruction of Ostracism in Athens: The Procedures -- 3.1 The Question of the Availability of the Law about Ostracism in Fourth-century Athens -- 3.2 The Procedure and Chronology of Ostracism -- 3.2.1 Between Epicheirotonia and Ostrakophoria -- 3.2.2 The Topography of Ostracism -- 3.2.3 The Pan Painter and the Day of Ostrakophoria |
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3.2.4 Interim Conclusions: Ostrakophoria and the Agora -- 3.2.5 The Conundrum of the 'Quorum' of Ostracism and the Issue of Ineffective Ostrakophoriai -- 3.2.6 The Hypothetical 'Quorum' of the Epicheirotonia of Ostracism in the Fifth Century bc -- 3.3 The Issue of the Potential Evolution of Ostracism in Athens in the Fifth Century bc -- 3.3.1 The Puzzle of the Geography of Exile in the Law about Ostracism -- 3.3.2 The Duration of Exile from Athens in the Law about Ostracism -- 3.4 Conclusions: A Reconstructed Procedure of Athenian Ostracism -- PART II TOWARDS AN INTERPRETATION OF THE ORIGINAL AIMS OF ATHENIAN OSTRACISM -- 4 The Historical Context of the Cleisthenian Law about Ostracism -- 4.1 Cleisthenes' Reforms or 'Athenian Revolution'? -- 4.2 The Law about Ostracism within the System of Cleisthenes' Reforms -- 5 The Prisoner's Dilemma-Ostracism and Competition among Athenian Political Élites -- 5.1 The 'Theory of Cooperation' as a Possible Explanatory Model -- 5.2 The Mechanism and the Primary Aim of the Law about Ostracism-A Reconstruction Attempt -- 5.2.1 Ostracism-Against Tyranny or Aristocratic Stasis? Prevention or Punishment? -- 5.2.2 The Athenian 'Prisoner's Dilemma', or Ostracism and Athenian Political Life -- 5.2.3 Athenian Ostracism and the 'Theory of Cooperation' I: A Historical Approach -- 5.2.4 Athenian Ostracism and the 'Theory of Cooperation' II: A Theoretical Approach -- Epilogue and Conclusions: The Decline and Fall of Athenian Ostracism -- From Pericles to Hyperbolus, or What Went Wrongin 'ca. 416 bc'? -- A Fourth-century Consensus? -- General Conclusions: The Logic and Original Goals of Athenian Ostracism -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- A. Literary Texts -- B. Inscriptions and Papyri -- General Index |
| Summary |
Ostracism is by far the most emblematic institution of ancient Athenian democracy. This volume offers a reassessment of recently found ostraka (or potsherds, on which the names of the 'candidates' for exile were inscribed by citizens) from several Greek cities outside Athens, a thorough reconstruction of the history and of the procedure of ostracism in Athens, and a comprehensive account of the political circumstances of the introduction of the law on ostracism by Cleisthenes in 508/507 BCE. Marek Wecowski's original study focuses not only on the final stage, the day of the vote, but on the entire operation and procedure of ostracisation |
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"This is a substantially modified and updated version of the earlier Polish edition of my book."--Page xi |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed January 16, 2024) |
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Political alienation -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
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Exile (Punishment) -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
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Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500
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Punishment (Greek law)
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Democracy
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Exile (Punishment)
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Political alienation
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Politics and government
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Punishment (Greek law)
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Archaeology.
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History.
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government -- To 1500
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Athens (Greece) -- History -- To 1500
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Greece -- Athens
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191882760 |
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0191882763 |
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9780192587558 |
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0192587552 |
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9780192587565 |
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0192587560 |
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