The Association of Classical Athens: The Response to Democracy

by Nicholas F. Jones

Jones' book examines the associations of ancient Athens under the classical democracy (508/7-321 B.C.) in light of their relations to the central government. Associations of all types--village communities, cultic groups, brotherhoods, sacerdotal families, philosophical schools, and others--emerge as fundamentally similar instances of Aristotelian koinoniai. Each, it is argued, acquired its distinctive character in response to particular features of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195121759
• ISBN13: 9780195121759
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.4"