Overview

This volume examines the diversity of networks and communities in the classical and early Hellenistic Greek world, with particular emphasis on those which took shape within and around Athens. In doing so it highlights not only the processes that created, modified, and dissolved these communities, but shines a light on the interactions through which individuals with different statuses, identities, levels of wealth, and connectivity participated in ancient society. By drawing on two distinct conceptual approaches, that of network studies and that of community formation, Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World showcases a variety of approaches which fall under the umbrella of 'network thinking' in order to move the study of ancient Greek history beyond structuralist polarities and functionalist explanations. The aim is to reconceptualize the polis not simply as a citizen club, but as one inter-linked community amongst many. This allows subaltern groups to be seen not just as passive objects of exclusion and exploitation but active historical agents, emphasizes the processes of interaction as well as the institutions created through them, and reveals the interpenetration between public institutions and private networks which integrated different communities within the borders of a polis and connected them with the wider world.

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Author:   Claire Taylor (John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History, John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) ,  Kostas Vlassopoulos (Associate Professor in Greek History, Associate Professor in Greek History, University of Nottingham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.90cm
Weight:   0.512kg
ISBN:  

9780198726494

ISBN 10:   019872649
Pages:   316
Publication Date:   30 April 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations List of Contributors 1: Claire Taylor and Kostas Vlassopoulos: Introduction: An Agenda for the Study of Greek History Part 1: The Diversity of Networks and Communities 2: Claire Taylor: Social Networks and Social Mobility in Fourth-Century Athens 3: Esther Eidinow: Ancient Greek Religion: 'Embedded' ... and Embodied 4: Paulin Ismard: 'Playing with Scales' in the Classical City: The Case of the Marathonian Tetrapolis Part 2: Processes: Creating Communities and Networks 5: Kostas Vlassopoulos: Plotting Strategies, Networks, and Communities in Classical Athens: The Evidence of Slave Names 6: Peter Hunt: Trojan Slaves in Classical Athens: Ethnic Identity Among Athenian Slaves 7: Ben Akrigg: Metics in Athens Part 3: Interactions: Poleis, Networks, and Communities 8: Vincent Gabrielsen: Naval and Grain Networks and Associations in Fourth-Century Athens 9: Christy Constantakopoulou: Beyond the Polis: Island koina and Other Non-Poleis Entities in the Aegean Part 4: Looking Back and Looking Forward 10: John Davies: Retrospect and Prospect Bibliography Index

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Claire Taylor is John W. and Jeanne M. Rowe Assistant Professor of Ancient Greek History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Kostas Vlassopoulos is Associate Professor in Greek History at the University of Nottingham.

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