Ritual, Finance, Politics : Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis Hardback
Edited by Robin (University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow and Tutor, University Lecturer in Osborne, Simon (Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History, Oriel C Hornblower
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This book is a celebration of two thousand five hundred years of democracy.
At the same time it is a collection of essays to honour the sixty-fifth birthday of David Lewis, Professor of Ancient History at the University of Oxford.
The book brings together contributions from twenty two leading scholars from Britain, Continental Europe, Israel, and America; its central themes are ritual (both in the religious and extended anthropological sense); finance, including the accountability principle which was basic to Athenian democracy; and politics.
All represent significant new contributions in the field.
The contributors pay especial attention to epigraphy (the editing and interpretation of inscriptions on stone), which is David Lewis' speciality.
They have made full use of the newest epigraphic evidence, and discuss topics such as the purposes (including symbolic and monumental motives) for which democratic inscriptions were set up.
The introduction locates individual contributions within the overall study of classical Athens and relates them to Lewis' own published work.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:426 pages, frontispiece, halftone and line figures
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/12/1994
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- ISBN:9780198149927
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:426 pages, frontispiece, halftone and line figures
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:29/12/1994
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- ISBN:9780198149927