LEADER 04179nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910780056603321 005 20210921032941.0 010 $a9786612158995 010 $a1-4008-2466-4 010 $a1-282-15899-6 010 $a1-4008-1420-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400824663 035 $a(CKB)111056486504614 035 $a(EBL)457765 035 $a(OCoLC)52137617 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000107126 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11137930 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000107126 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10006054 035 $a(PQKB)10102570 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36157 035 $a(DE-B1597)446236 035 $a(OCoLC)979725354 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400824663 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457765 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10312572 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL215899 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457765 035 $a(PPN)18730887X 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486504614 100 $a19991020d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Athenian nation$b[electronic resource] /$fEdward E. Cohen 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (268 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-691-09490-X 311 0 $a0-691-04842-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [193]-228) and indexes. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tPREFACE --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tABBREVIATIONS --$tIntroduction. Athens as Paradox-Athens as Nation --$tChapter 1. Anomalous Athens --$tChapter 2. The Local Residents of Attika --$tChapter 3. An Ancient Construct: The Athenian Nation --$tChapter 4. A Modern Myth: The Athenian Village --$tChapter 5. Wealthy Slaves in a "Slave Society" --$tChapter 6. The Social Contract: Sexual Abuse and Sexual Profit --$tWORKS CITED --$tGENERAL INDEX --$tINDEX OF PASSAGES CITED 330 $aChallenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life. Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a "nation" (ethnos), and that Athens did encompass the characteristics now used to identify a "nation." He argues that in Athens economic, religious, sexual, and social dimensions were no less significant than political and juridical considerations, and accordingly rejects prevailing scholarship's equation of Athens with its male citizen body. In fact, Cohen shows that the categories of "citizen" and "noncitizen" were much more fluid than is often assumed, and that some noncitizens exercised considerable power. He explores such subjects as the economic importance of businesswomen and wealthy slaves; the authority exercised by enslaved public functionaries; the practical egalitarianism of erotic relations and the broad and meaningful protections against sexual abuse of both free persons and slaves, and especially of children; the wide involvement of all sectors of the population in significant religious and local activities. All this emerges from the use of fresh legal, economic, and archaeological evidence and analysis that reveal the social complexity of Athens, and the demographic and geographic factors giving rise to personal anonymity and limiting personal contacts--leading to the creation of an "imagined community" with a mutually conceptualized identity, a unified economy, and national "myths" set in historical fabrication. 606 $aSocial classes$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 606 $aSocial stratification$zGreece$zAthens$xHistory 607 $aAthens (Greece)$xSocial conditions 607 $aGreece$xSocial conditions$yTo 146 B.C 615 0$aSocial classes$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial stratification$xHistory. 676 $a306/.09495/12 700 $aCohen$b Edward E$0389113 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780056603321 996 $aAthenian nation$9145833 997 $aUNINA