Ideology of Democratic Athens

Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

AvMatteo Barbato,University of Milan) Barbato, Matteo (Postdoctoral Fellow in Greek History

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The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community. Matteo Barbato addresses this dichotomy by providing a unitary approach to Athenian democratic ideology. Analysing four different myths from the perspective of the New Institutionalism, he demonstrates that Athenian democratic ideology was a fluid set of ideas, values and beliefs shared by the Athenians as a result of a constant ideological practice influenced by the institutions of the democracy. He shows that this process entailed the active participation of both the mass and the elite and enabled the Athenians to produce multiple and compatible ideas about their community and its mythical past.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-05-30
Mått156 x 234 x 23 mm
Vikt414 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History
Antal sidor264
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474466431
UtmärkelserJoint winner of Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2021 (UK)

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PrefaceList of tablesList of illustrationsAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Myth and Athenian democracy3. The discursive parameters of Athenian democratic institutions4. Exclusiveness and eugeneia in the myth of autochthony5. Between charis and philanthrōpia: the Heraclidae6. Fading shades of hybris: the Attic Amazonomachy7. Combining hybris and philanthrōpia: the myth of Adrastus8. ConclusionsBibliographyIndex locorumGeneral index