- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements (Paperback Edition)
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction: Alternatives to the Democratic Polis
- Varieties of Polis Organization
- 2 Theognis: An Alternative to Democracy
- 3 Megara’s Mafiosi: Timocracy and Violence in Theognis
- 4 Exchange and Stasis in Archaic Mytilene
- 5 Cyrene: Typical or Atypical?
- 6 Friends and Foes: Monarchs and Monarchy in Fifth-century Athenian Democracy
- 7 Oligarchs in Athens
- 8 Syracusan Democracy: ‘Most Like the Athenian’?<sup>1</sup>
- 9 Aristotle and the Mixed Constitution
- 10 The Polis in Italy: Ethnicity, Colonization, and Citizenship in the Western Mediterranean
- Communities Beyond The Polis
- 11 Politics without the Polis: Cities and the Achaean Ethnos, c.800–500 BC
- 12 Space, Hierarchy, and Community in Archaic and Classical Macedonia, Thessaly, and Thrace
- 13 A Wholly Non-Aristotelian Universe: The Molossians as Ethnos, State, and Monarchy
- 14 Homeric and Macedonian Kingship
- 15 The ‘Kings’ of Lycia in the Achaemenid Period
- 16 The Pre-polis Polis
- 17 Argead and Aetolian Relations with the Delphic Polis in the Late Fourth Century BC
- 18 Problems of Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy 370–362 BC
- 19 Land-use, Ethnicity, and Federalism in West Crete
- Bibliography
- Index
(p.33) Varieties of Polis Organization
(p.33) Varieties of Polis Organization
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- Alternatives to Athens
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- Oxford University Press
Keywords: democracy, Theognis, poetry
Keywords: Theognis, Mafia, violent competition, power struggles
Keywords: Mytilene, polis, constitutional forms, state-forms, Greece
Keywords: Cyrene, Theran colony, Greek colonies, Battiad monarchy
Keywords: Athenian democracy, monarchy, one-man rule, Athens
Keywords: ur-oligarchs, oligarchy, Athens, democracy
Keywords: Syracuse, Wentker, Syracusan democracy
Keywords: Aristotle, mixed constitution, politeia
Keywords: democratic polis, Greek colonies, Athens, western colonies
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- Title Pages
- Acknowledgements
- Acknowledgements (Paperback Edition)
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Note on Transliteration
- 1 Introduction: Alternatives to the Democratic Polis
- Varieties of Polis Organization
- 2 Theognis: An Alternative to Democracy
- 3 Megara’s Mafiosi: Timocracy and Violence in Theognis
- 4 Exchange and Stasis in Archaic Mytilene
- 5 Cyrene: Typical or Atypical?
- 6 Friends and Foes: Monarchs and Monarchy in Fifth-century Athenian Democracy
- 7 Oligarchs in Athens
- 8 Syracusan Democracy: ‘Most Like the Athenian’?<sup>1</sup>
- 9 Aristotle and the Mixed Constitution
- 10 The Polis in Italy: Ethnicity, Colonization, and Citizenship in the Western Mediterranean
- Communities Beyond The Polis
- 11 Politics without the Polis: Cities and the Achaean Ethnos, c.800–500 BC
- 12 Space, Hierarchy, and Community in Archaic and Classical Macedonia, Thessaly, and Thrace
- 13 A Wholly Non-Aristotelian Universe: The Molossians as Ethnos, State, and Monarchy
- 14 Homeric and Macedonian Kingship
- 15 The ‘Kings’ of Lycia in the Achaemenid Period
- 16 The Pre-polis Polis
- 17 Argead and Aetolian Relations with the Delphic Polis in the Late Fourth Century BC
- 18 Problems of Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy 370–362 BC
- 19 Land-use, Ethnicity, and Federalism in West Crete
- Bibliography
- Index
