2006, ISBN: 00a459ac8821902e4168d65b3f8f7d56

Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2004. 558p. Hard bound. Head spine slightly bumped. Series: Klio, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Beihefte, Neue Folge, Band 7. Nice copy. ?This monumental work st… Mehr…

Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2004. 558p. Hard bound. Head spine slightly bumped. Series: Klio, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Beihefte, Neue Folge, Band 7. Nice copy. ?This monumental work stands apart from anything else written in any language, It amounts to nothing less than a sociology of the Greek city. (?) S. is interested in all forms of community relationship. Indeed his major interest is in how community relations changed over time as the city developed. Between Introduction and Conclusion, whose titles ?Between oikos and polis? and ?The control of social control? inicate clearly the trajectory and interests of the argument, there are four substantial chapters. The first is concerned with neighbourhoods and village life in the eighth and seventh century. The second largely concerns early Greek law. The third concerns customs of censure and shaming. The fourth concerns the breakdown of the traditional order in the fifth and fourth centuries. (?) What enables S. to produce this monumental study is his decision to work with modern rather than ancient categories, a decision backed up by a strong belief in universal sociological patterns. Neighbourhood matters in country more than town, among the poor more than among the rich; neighbourly solidarity and intolerance against deviants go together. And so on. The assumption of such patterns is not fashionable, and it is notable that so much of his wide-ranging bibliography stems from work done in the sixties and seventies. (?) Although the issues about which S. Is concerned are not generated from the reading of ancient texts, his method of dealing with these issues is primarily philological. This is a book about changing social relations as seen in texts. (?) The negative side of this bias is that S. has minimal concern for the material remains of communities. (?) The positive side to S.?s methodology is his wonderful control of the whole body of archaic and Classical Greek literature (?). We might expect to find plenty of classical oratory and use of Aristotle and Aristophanes, as well as thorough exploitation of archaic poetry, but in addition we find S. employing the tragedians, and above all Euripides, to excellent effect. (?) If S.?s conclusions repeatedly focus on what changes between the archaic and classical Period, he also has important things to say about differences between classes. (?) There are few areas of Greek social, political of economic history about which this book does not challenge us to review and revise our views. He unveils a whole new background against which to see the economic development of the Greek world. (?) Against both those who think that the motor behind change in Archaic Greece was the hoplite and those who think it was the aristocracy, he insists on the centrality of the peasant world to the story of legal and political change. He offers new grounds for distinguishing ?classes?, and develops further than others have done the awareness of the ways in which social and economic conditions impinged upon the lives of women. (?) It is a pleasure to hail so origin la contribution.? (ROBIN OSBORNE in Gnomon, 2006, pp.423-426). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux., NL, [SC: 15.00], Antiquarian, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 1999g], Banküberweisung, Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), De internationale scheepvaart<

2006, ISBN: 00a459ac8821902e4168d65b3f8f7d56

Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2004. 558p. Hard bound. Head spine slightly bumped. Series: Klio, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Beihefte, Neue Folge, Band 7. Nice copy. ?This monumental work st… Mehr…

Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 2004. 558p. Hard bound. Head spine slightly bumped. Series: Klio, Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Beihefte, Neue Folge, Band 7. Nice copy. ?This monumental work stands apart from anything else written in any language, It amounts to nothing less than a sociology of the Greek city. (?) S. is interested in all forms of community relationship. Indeed his major interest is in how community relations changed over time as the city developed. Between Introduction and Conclusion, whose titles ?Between oikos and polis? and ?The control of social control? inicate clearly the trajectory and interests of the argument, there are four substantial chapters. The first is concerned with neighbourhoods and village life in the eighth and seventh century. The second largely concerns early Greek law. The third concerns customs of censure and shaming. The fourth concerns the breakdown of the traditional order in the fifth and fourth centuries. (?) What enables S. to produce this monumental study is his decision to work with modern rather than ancient categories, a decision backed up by a strong belief in universal sociological patterns. Neighbourhood matters in country more than town, among the poor more than among the rich; neighbourly solidarity and intolerance against deviants go together. And so on. The assumption of such patterns is not fashionable, and it is notable that so much of his wide-ranging bibliography stems from work done in the sixties and seventies. (?) Although the issues about which S. Is concerned are not generated from the reading of ancient texts, his method of dealing with these issues is primarily philological. This is a book about changing social relations as seen in texts. (?) The negative side of this bias is that S. has minimal concern for the material remains of communities. (?) The positive side to S.?s methodology is his wonderful control of the whole body of archaic and Classical Greek literature (?). We might expect to find plenty of classical oratory and use of Aristotle and Aristophanes, as well as thorough exploitation of archaic poetry, but in addition we find S. employing the tragedians, and above all Euripides, to excellent effect. (?) If S.?s conclusions repeatedly focus on what changes between the archaic and classical Period, he also has important things to say about differences between classes. (?) There are few areas of Greek social, political of economic history about which this book does not challenge us to review and revise our views. He unveils a whole new background against which to see the economic development of the Greek world. (?) Against both those who think that the motor behind change in Archaic Greece was the hoplite and those who think it was the aristocracy, he insists on the centrality of the peasant world to the story of legal and political change. He offers new grounds for distinguishing ?classes?, and develops further than others have done the awareness of the ways in which social and economic conditions impinged upon the lives of women. (?) It is a pleasure to hail so origin la contribution.? (ROBIN OSBORNE in Gnomon, 2006, pp.423-426). From the library of Prof. Carl Deroux., NL, [SC: 15.00], Antiquarian, gewerbliches Angebot, [GW: 1999g], Banküberweisung, Lastschrift, Kreditkarte, PayPal, Selbstabholung und Barzahlung, Offene Rechnung (Vorkasse vorbehalten), Internationaler Versand<

2004, ISBN: 00a459ac8821902e4168d65b3f8f7d56

Berlin. Akademie Verlag. 2004., Sehr gut., First edition. - Beiträge zur alten Geschichte. Beihefte Neue Folge Band 7. 4°. 558 (4) Seiten + wissenschaftlicher Apparat. OPappband.; 7