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Record Nr.

UNISA996247985803316

Autore

Ostwald Martin

Titolo

From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of Law : Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens / / Martin Ostwald

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [1986]

©1986

ISBN

0-520-90968-2

0-585-13980-6

Edizione

[Reprint 2019]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 663 p. )

Disciplina

342.495/12

344.951202

Soggetti

Law, Greek

Law - Greece - Athens - History

Constitutional history - Greece - Athens - To 146 B.C

Rule of law - Greece - Athens

Democracy

Athens (Greece) Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography (p. 551-569) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PROLEGOMENA: SCOPE AND PURPOSE -- CHAPTER ONE. Popular Sovereignty and the Control of Government -- CHAPTER TWO. Popular Sovereignty and Social Thought -- CHAPTER THREE. Popular Sovereignty and the Control of Religion -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Prelude -- CHAPTER FIVE. The Polarizations of the 420s -- CHAPTER SIX. Popular Sovereignty and the Intellectual: Alcibiades -- CHAPTER SEVEN. The Problem of the Patrios Politeia (Ancestral Constitution) -- CHAPTER EIGHT. The Breakdown of Popular Sovereignty -- CHAPTER NINE. The Second Oligarchical Challenge and Its Failure -- CHAPTER TEN. Toward a New Order: Democracy under the Law -- APPENDIX A: EISANGELIA CASES IN THE FIFTH -- APPENDIX B: THE EARLIEST TRIALS FOR IMPIETY (ASEBEIA) AT ATHENS -- APPENDIX C: THE SOCIAL AND INTELLECTUAL BACKGROUND OF THE άσεβοῦντες OF 415 B.C. -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX LOCORUM -- GENERAL INDEX