The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian AgoraThe artifacts and monuments of the Athenian Agora provide our best evidence for the workings of ancient democracy. As a concise introduction to these physical traces, this book has been a bestseller since it was first published almost 20 years ago. Showing how tribal identity was central to all aspects of civic life, the text guides the reader through the duties of citizenship; as soldier in times of war and as juror during the peace. The checks and balances that protected Athenian society from tyrants, such as legal assassination and ostracism, are described. Selected inscriptions are illustrated and discussed, as are ingenious devices such as allotment machines and water clocks, which ensured fairness in the courts. The book ends with some of the lasting products of classical administration; the silver coins accepted around the known world, and the standard weights and measures that continue to protect the consumer from unscrupulous merchants. Now illustrated entirely in color, with updates and revisions by the current director of excavations at the Agora, this new edition of an acknowledged classic will inform and fascinate visitors and students for many years to come. |
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Contents
THE AGORA AND PNYX | 5 |
TRIBES AND DEMES | 7 |
THE EPONYMOUS HEROES | 9 |
MILITARY SERVICE | 10 |
THE COUNCIL AND THE MAGISTRATES | 15 |
LAW AGAINST TYRANNY | 19 |
OSTRACISM | 20 |
JUDICIARY AND LAWCOURTS | 22 |
ATHENIAN CURRENCY | 27 |
STANDARD WEIGHTS AND MEASURES | 30 |
Common terms and phrases
AllotMENT MACHINEs allotment of jurors amphora ANCIENT ATHENs archon in charge Areopagus or sit Assembly ATHE Athenian Agora Athenian citizens B.c. THE AGORA Boule building citizenship coin BLANKs coinage Council House Bouleuterion Council or deliberate court decrees honor deme name democracy in Athens Demos DEMOSION deposited drachmas ephebes Eponymous Heroes excavations FIFTH century b.c. FourTH century B.c. greatest number Hellenistic period inscribed jigsaw cut jury-section KAllixenos klepsydra kleroteria Lakedaimonians LATE FIFTH century Law against Tyranny law.courts LEAD TOKENS lead weight Lessors of Public ListED BY TRIBE magistrates METRooN military service Nomothetai º º OATH stone OFFICIAL DRY MEASURE Old Council House ostraka ostrakon Perikles Piraeus Pnyx Poletai potsherds praise Mikalion Princeton prytany public property Pylos R. E. Wycherley SECOND CENTURY seemed best sherds silver SQUARE PERISTYLE Stoa TERRAcotta TokENs Themistokles Tholos Thucydides ticket tribe and deme tribe name vote of ostracism water clock ZEUS
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora Volume 4 of Agora Picture Books Book 4 of Excavations of the Athenian Agora: Picture book Volume 4 of Picture book], [Excavations of the Athenian agora |
| Authors | Mabel L. Lang, John McK. Camp |
| Compiled by | John McK. Camp |
| Edition | illustrated, revised |
| Publisher | ASCSA, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0876616422, 9780876616420 |
| Length | 32 pages |
| Subjects | › › History / Ancient / Greece |
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