Athenian Democratic Origins and other essays

This is a defense of the Athenian democracy by a great radical historian. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix shows how even its oddest features made sense, and illustrates the different factors influencing Athenian politics--for instance, trade and commercial interests mattered very little. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays remain fresh and innovative.

Geoffrey de Ste. Croix was Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College, Oxford from 1953 until 1977. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1972. He published Origins of the Peloponnesian War in 1972 and The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World in 1981; the latter book was translated into Spanish and Greek, and won the Isaac Deutscher Memorial prize for 1982.

Editors' Introduction

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1. The Solonian Census Classes and the Qualifications for Cavalry and Hoplite Service

5

(68)

(i) The Late Fifth- and Fourth-Century Evidence

8

(6)

(ii) Military Categories in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries

14

(5)

(iii) Tele and Military Categories in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries

19

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(iv) The Original Qualifications of the Tele

28

(4)

(v) The Original Qualifications of the Pentakosiomedimnoi

32

(14)

(vi) The Original Qualifications of the Hippeis and Zeugitai

46

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(vii) Were the Qualifications of the Tele Changed?

51

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(viii) Pollux VIII 130

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(ix) Miscellaneous

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Endnotes

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Appendix: The Dedication of Anthemion

(Arist., Ath. Pol. 7.4)

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Afterword

72

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2. Five Notes on Solon's Constitution

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(i) The Introduction of Majority Voting at Athens

73

(2)

(ii) The Date of Solon's Nomothesia

75

(5)

(iii) The Eupatrid Monopoly of the `State Machine'

80

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(iv) The Solonian Council of Four Hundred

83

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(v) kappaληρωσιs epsilonκ ΠρomicronΚριτωv ['sortition from pre-selected candidates'] (Ath. Pol. 8.1)

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Appendix: Election to High Office by Lot Elsewhere than in Greece

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Afterword

107

(2)

3. Solon, the Horoi and the Hektemoroi

109

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Afterword

127

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4. Cleisthenes I: The Constitution

129

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(i) Cleisthenes in Herodotus and Aristotle

129

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(ii) The Constitution of Cleisthenes

136

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Endnotes

172

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Afterword

177

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5. Cleisthenes II: Ostracism, Archons and Strategoi

180

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(i) The Law of Ostracism: Its Date and Purpose

180

(35)

(ii) Archons and Strategoi

215

(14)

Afterword

229

(4)

6. The Athenian Citizenship Laws

233

(21)

Afterword

251

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7. The Athenaion Politeia and Early Athenian History

254

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(i) The Athenaion Politeia and the Politics

256

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(ii) The Sources of the Athenaion Politeia

277

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(iii) Aristotle and the Atthidographers

286

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(iv) Aristotle and the Documentary Sources

307

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Endnotes

323

(2)

Afterword

325

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8. The metra in Aristotle, Eth. Nic. V vii 5, 1134b35-1135a3

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Appendix: Measures of Capacity

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Afterword

347

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9. How Far was Trade a Cause of Early Greek Colonisation?

349

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Afterword

367

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10. But what about Aegina?

371

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Afterword

411

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11. Herodotus and King Cleomenes I of Sparta

421

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Afterword

438

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Abbreviations and Bibliography

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Index

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