Название: Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece
Автор: Alain Duplouy, Roger W. Brock
Издательство: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198817193
Год: 2018
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 384
Для сайта: litgu.ru
Размер: 20,5 МБ
Язык: Английский
Citizenship is a major feature of contemporary national and international politics, but rather than being a modern phenomenon it is in fact a legacy of ancient Greece. The concept of membership of a community and participation in its social and political life first appeared some three millennia ago, but only towards the end of the fourth century BC did Aristotle offer the first explicit statement about it. Though long accepted, this definition remains deeply rooted in the philosophical and political thought of the classical period, and probably fails to account accurately for either the preceding centuries or the dynamics of emergent cities: as such, historians are now challenging the application of the Aristotelian model to all Greek cities regardless of chronology, and are looking instead for alternative ways of conceiving citizenship and community.