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The Demes of Attica, 508/7 -ca. 250 B.C.
A Political and Social Study
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David Whitehead
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English
Published/Copyright:
2014
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This work is a richly detailed study of the nature and development of the 139 Attic demes, the local units that made up the city-state of Athens during the classical and early Hellenistic periods.
Originally published in 1986.
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CONTENTS
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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CONVENTIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS
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PREFACE
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INTRODUCTION
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1. BEFORE AND AFTER KLEISTHENES
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2. SOURCES AND METHODOLOGY
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3. THE DEME AND ITS RESIDENTS
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4. THE DEME ASSEMBLY
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5. THE DEMARCH AND OTHER OFFICIALS
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6. INCOME AND EXPENDITURE
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7. RELIGION
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8. DEME SOCIETY
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9. LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND CENTRAL GOVERNMENT
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10. LOCAL POLITICS AND CITY POLITICS
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11. THE DEME IN COMEDY
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IV. Conspectus: The Demes and History
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PROSOPOGRΑΡΗY
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SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
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INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED
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INDEX OF DEMES
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GENERAL INDEX
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July 14, 2014
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9781400857685
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Keywords for this book
Deme; Boule (ancient Greece); Eleusis; Euripides; Thucydides; Archaic Greece; Hellenica; Aeschylus; Aristophanes; Classical Athens; Hellenistic period; Constitution of the Athenians; Isocrates; Sophocles; Ancient Greek comedy; Cleidemus; Ptolemaic Kingdom; Greek name; Demosthenes; Mycenaean Greece; Eusebeia; Erechtheion; Hermippus; The Acharnians; Thersites; Mycenae; Fifth-century Athens; Peisistratos; Dyskolos; Homer; Alciphron; Dionysia; Phratry; Isaeus; Classical Greece; Sortition; Fasti; Ancient Society; Philochorus; Ad hominem; Castor and Pollux; Second Sophistic; Basileus; Eponymous archon; Kerameikos; Themistocles; Peloponnesian War; Erechtheus; Pythian Games; Eupolis; Moses Finley; Anaxandrides; George Grote; Metic; 520s; G. M. Trevelyan; Herodotus; Artemis Tauropolos; Hegesias of Magnesia; Critias; Attica; Hoplite; Seven Pillars of Wisdom; Roman naming conventions; Alcibiades; Etymology; Pyanopsia; Greeks; Meidias; Eleusinian Mysteries
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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research
