Mogens Herman Hansen Bücher

Contents: F. de Polignac: Repenser la „cité“? Rituels et société en Grèce archaïque — M. H. Hansen: The „Autonomous City-State“. Ancient Fact or Modern Fiction? — M. H. Hansen: Kome. A Study in How the Greeks Designated and Classified Settlements which were not Poleis — T. H. Nielsen: Was Eutaia a Polis? A Note on Xenophon’s Use of the Term Polis in the Hellenika — P. Flensted-Jensen: The Bottiaians and their Poleis — S. G. Miller: Old Metroon and Old Bouleuterion in the Classical Agora of Athens — T. L. Shear, Jr.: Bouleuterion, Metroon and the Archives at Athens — A. Avram: Poleis und Nicht-Poleis im Ersten und Zweiten Attischen Seebund — W. Burkert: Greek Poleis and Civic Cults. Some Further Thoughts — L. Rubinstein: Pausanias as a Source for the Classical Greek Polis

KurzbeschreibungKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für „Die Athenische Demokratie im Zeitalter des Demosthenes“ verfügbar.

Aus dem Inhalt: N. Demand: Poleis on Cyprus and Oriental DespotismH. Bowden: The Greek Settlement and Sanctuaries at NaukratisT. H. Nielsen: Was There an Arkadian Confederacy in the Fifth Century B. C.? T. H. Nielsen: A Survey of Dependent Poleis in Classical ArkadiaJ. Roy: Polis and Tribe in Classical ArkadiaA. G. Keen: Were the Boiotian Poleis Autonomoi? M. H. Hansen: Were the Boiotian Poleis Deprived of Their Autonomia During the First and Second Boiotian Federations? A ReplyP. Flensted-Jensen/M. H. Hansen: Pseudo-Skylax’ Use of the Term PolisM. H. Hansen: City-Ethnics as Evidence for Polis Identity

The Athenian democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. is the most famous and perhaps the most nearly perfect example of direct democracy. Covering the period 403-322 B.C., Mogens Herman Hansen focuses on the crucial last thirty years, which coincided with the political career of Demosthenes. Hansen distinguishes between the city’s seven political institutions: the Assembly, the nomothetai, the People’s Court, the boards of magistrates, the Council of Five Hundred, the Areopagos, and ho boulomenos. He discusses how Athenians conceived liberty both as the ability to participate in the decision-making process and as the right to live without oppression from the state or other citizens.

An accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state. Mogens Herman Hansen addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political culture, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.

"Reflecting the innovative work of the Copenhagen Polis Centre's 2004 inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek city-states, Hansen's "shotgun method" for reconstructing and estimating the overall size and local distribution of the Greek population challenges the long-standing opinion that the majority of ancient Greeks lived a rural, subsistent life"--Provided by publisher.

In June 2012 a conference about Athenian democracy in the fourth century B.C. was held in Berlin at the Humboldt University. The conference was organized by Claudia Tiersch, professor of ancient history at the Humboldt University. She invited 19 distinguished scholars to speak about various aspects of Society, economy and political institutions in Athens in the period 403 to 322. Revised versions of the contributions were published in November 2016 with the title: Die Athenische Demokratie im 4. Jahrhundert. Zwischen Modernisierung und Tradition. The present book contains an assessment of, and comments on, Tiersch's introduction and the nineteen contributions. The basic sources have been reexamined and they have often been supplemented with other relevant sources and reflections. Naturally, the subjects of the 20 studies in the conference report do not form an exhaustive description of Athenian democracy. In the final chapter, Mogens Herman Hansen suggests a number of additional topics that might be treated on future conferences on Athenian democracy in the fourth century B.C.

The second volume of The Athenian Ecclesia covers the authors articles on the subject in the period 1983-1989 on the working and functioning of the Athenian assembly. The book covers a variety of elements in the discussion of the Ecclesia, such as politicians, the political organization of Attica, how the assembly met and what and whom it consisted of.