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Robert Wallace's Publications
Publications: Books, single author 1. Reconstructing Damon. Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Perikles’ Athens. forthcoming 2013, Oxford University Press (UK) 2. The Areopagos Council, to 307 B.C., The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore MD, 1989, xvii + 294 pages. Winner of the Gustave O. Arlt Award in the Humanities, awarded by the Council of Graduate Schools, 1988. Reviews : Gnomon 69 (1997) 76-78 W. Schuller; Aevum 66 (1992) 178-180 L. Pignoloni; Rechtshist. Journ. 10 (1991) 8-11 D. Cohen; Amer. Hist. Rev. 96 (1991) 487 R. Garner; Class. World 84 (1991) 416-417 R. Moorton; Journ. Hell. Stud. 110 (1990) 252-253 R. Knox; Class. Rev. 40 (1990) 356-358 D. Lewis; Gr.& R. 37 (1990) 242 P. Rhodes; Amer. Journ. Philol. 111 (1990) 410-414 E. Carawan; New Engl. Class. Newsl. & Journ., May 1990, 35-36 D. Held; History 1989, pp. 129-130 P. Krentz; Choice 26-5503 (June 1989) P. Mitsis. Book, co-authored 3. Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, by Kurt A. Raaflaub, Josiah Ober, and Robert W. Wallace, University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles 2007, pp. xi + 242; paperback ed. 2008. Reviews: Bryn Mawr Cl. Rev. (Rhodes), Class. Rev. 58 (2008) 513-14 (Christ), HistLit 5 (2007) 66-68 (Bernett), Sehepunkt 7 (2007) 10 (Welwei), HistLit 5 (2007) 66-68 (Bernett), Gnomon 80 (2008) 704-708 (Walter), HistZeitschr. 285 (2007) 684-686 (Schubert), Eirene 45 (2009) 181-182 (Oliva); Perspectives on Politics 7 (2009) 950-951 (Saxonhouse), Hermathena 186 (2009) 91-95 (Champion) 3a. Le origini della democrazia nell'antica Grecia, Ariele Press, Milan, 2011. -
On the Benefits and Costs of Legal Expertise: Adjudication in Ancient Athens
On the Benefits and Costs of Legal Expertise: Adjudication in Ancient Athens Robert K. Fleck John E. Walker Department of Economics Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634 e-mail: [email protected] F. Andrew Hanssen John E. Walker Department of Economics Clemson University Clemson, SC 29634 phone: (864) 656-5474 e-mail: [email protected] December 27, 2011 Abstract: Legal expertise permits detailed laws to be written and enforced, but individuals with expertise may employ their special knowledge to skew decisions in privately beneficial directions. We illustrate this tradeoff in a simple model, which we use to guide our analysis of the legal system in ancient Athens. Rather than accepting the costs of expertise in return for the benefits, as do most modern societies, the Athenians designed a legal system that banned professional legal experts. And this was not because Athenian society was simple: The Athenians employed sophisticated contingent contracts and litigated frequently (to the point that the law courts featured prominently in several famous comedies). Furthermore, the Athenians recognized that forgoing expertise was costly, and where the cost was particularly high, designed institutions that made use of expertise already existing in society, employed knowledgeable individuals who were unable to engage in significant rent seeking, or increased the private returns to collecting publicly beneficial information. Although the Athenian legal system differs in many ways from modern legal systems, it nonetheless functioned very effectively. Investigation of the Athenian system serves to illustrate how important it is for institutional designers to consider legal institutions as a bundle, whose pieces must complement one another. -
Series Civilizational Models of Politogenesis
RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES CENTER FOR CIVILIZATIONAL AND REGIONAL STUDIES CIVILIZATIONAL MODELS OF POLITOGENESIS Moscow 2000 The “CIVILIZATIONAL DIMENSION” Series Editorial Board of the Series: IGOR V. SLEDZEVSKI (Editor-in-Chief) DMITRI M. BONDARENKO, NATALIA A. KSENOFONTOVA, ALEXEI M. VASSILIEV Editors of the Volume: Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Andrey V. Korotayev The volume represents an attempt of a complex study of the politogenetic processes in their regional and temporary variety. The authors hope that their survey can and should also promote a better understanding of the general tendencies and mechanisms of cultural and sociopolitical evolution, of the interrelation and interaction of cultural, social, and political formats in the human society. The authors believe that the use of principles and methods of the civilizational approach in politogenetic studies, on the one hand, and the inclusion of the politogenesis into the problem area of civilizations studies, on the other hand, creates the effect of novelty in terms of both anthropology and civilizations studies, enriches their scientific toolkit and expands heuristic limits. ISBN 5-201-05100-6 © Institute for African Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000 © Center for Civilizational and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2000 © The authors, 2000 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The authors and editors of the present volume are grateful to Mr. Dmitri D. Beliaev for his assistance in editing of some chapters of the present volume, as well as to Mr. Pavel A. Seslavin and Mr. Dmitri V. Gru- shkin who translated into English Mr. Vorobyov and Prof. Dozhdev’s chap- ters. We are also thankful to the Director of the Institute for African Studies Press Dr. -
Interpv3issue2 5/5
Volume 30 Issue 2 Spring 2003 119 Jules Gleicher Moses Dikastes 157 Eric Buzzetti New Developments in Xenophon Studies 179 George Thomas The Parasite as Virtuoso: Sexual Desire and Political Order in Machiavelli’s Mandragola 195 Roslyn Weiss Oh, Brother! The Fraternity of Rhetoric and Philosophy in Plato’s Gorgias 207 Kalev Pehme Book Review: Outline of a Phenomenology of Right, by Alexandre Kojève Editor-in-Chief Hilail Gildin, Dept. of Philosophy, Queens College General Editors Seth G. Benardete (d. 2001) • Charles E. Butterworth • Hilail Gildin • Leonard Grey • Robert Horwitz (d. 1978) • Howard B. White (d. 1974) Consulting Editors Christopher Bruell • Joseph Cropsey • Ernest L. Fortin (d. 2002) • John Hallowell (d. 1992) • Harry V. Jaffa • David Lowenthal • Muhsin Mahdi • Harvey C. Mansfield • Arnaldo Momigliano (d. 1987) • Michaeal Oakeshott (d. 1990) • Ellis Sandoz • Leo Strauss (d. 1973) • Kenneth W. Thompson International Editors Terrence E. Marshall • Heinrich Meier Editors Wayne Ambler • Maurice Auerbach • Robert Bartlett • Fred Baumann • Amy Bonnette • Eric Buzzetti • Susan Collins • Patrick Coby • Elizabeth C’de Baca Eastman • Thomas S. Engeman • Edward J. Erler • Maureen Feder-Marcus • Pamela K. Jensen • Ken Masugi • Carol M. McNamara • Will Morrisey • Susan Orr • Michael Palmer • Charles T. Rubin • Leslie G. Rubin • Susan Meld Shell • Devin Stauffer • Bradford P. Wilson • Cameron Wybrow • Martin D. Yaffe • Michael P. Zuckert • Catherine H. Zuckert Copy Editor Maria Kent Rowell Designer Wendy Coy Subscriptions Subscription rates per volume (3 issues): Individuals $29 Libraries and all other institutions $48 Students (four year limit) $18 Single copies available. Postage outside U.S.: Canada: add $4.50; all other countries add $5.40 for surface mail (8 weeks or longer) or $11 for airmail. -
Aristotle's Politics and Slavery in Ancient Athens
Portland State University PDXScholar Young Historians Conference Young Historians Conference 2018 Apr 18th, 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM Aristotle's Politics and Slavery in Ancient Athens Krystyna D. Klucznik Riverdale High School Follow this and additional works at: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians Part of the Ancient History, Greek and Roman through Late Antiquity Commons, and the European History Commons Let us know how access to this document benefits ou.y Klucznik, Krystyna D., "Aristotle's Politics and Slavery in Ancient Athens" (2018). Young Historians Conference. 5. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/younghistorians/2018/oralpres/5 This Event is brought to you for free and open access. It has been accepted for inclusion in Young Historians Conference by an authorized administrator of PDXScholar. Please contact us if we can make this document more accessible: [email protected]. Klucznik 1 Thea Klucznik Ms. Keldorf Western Civ 6 November 2017 EQ: What does Aristotle’s Politics reveal most significantly about the institution of slavery in Ancient Athens? Aristotle’s Politics and Slavery in Ancient Athens Praxagora: I want all to have a share of everything and all property to be in common; there will no longer be either rich or poor; no longer shall we see one man harvesting vast tracts of land, while another has not ground enough to be buried in, nor one man surround himself with a whole army of slaves, while another has not a single attendant; I intend that there shall only be one and the same condition of life for all. (Aristophanes) This proposal, offered in Aristophanes’ play, Ecclesiazusae, outlines a bucolic, almost socialist, utopia. -
An Introduction to the Athenian Legal System
is is a version of an electronic document, part of the series, Dēmos: Clas- sical Athenian Democracy, a publicationpublication ofof e Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org]. e electronic version of this article off ers contextual information intended to make the study of Athenian democracy more accessible to a wide audience. Please visit the site at http:// www.stoa.org/projects/demos/home. An Introduction to the Athenian Legal System S is article was originally written for the online discussion series “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context,” organized by Adriaan Lanni and sponsored by Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies. Its purpose is to give a brief overview of the structure and procedures of the Athenian legal system, and some discussion of the nature and pecu- liar challenges of the sources for our knowledge of it, to serve as a background for the more detailed articles of this series that will focus on specifi c aspects of Athenian law. Suggested Reading: Demosthenes , “Against Conon.” I “In the criminal justice system, the People are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime, and the district attorneys, who Victor Bers and Adriaan Lanni, “An Introduction to the Athenian Legal System,” in A. Lanni, ed., “Athenian Law in its Democratic Context” (Center for Hellenic Studies On-Line Discussion Series). Republished with permission in C. Blackwell, ed., Dēmos: Classical Athenian Democracy (A.(A. MahoneyMahoney andand R.R. Scaife,Scaife, edd.,edd., e Stoa: a consortium for electronic publication in the humanities [www.stoa.org], . -
Corrective Justice and the Revival of Judicial Virtue
Corrective Justice and the Revival of Judicial Virtue Mark C. Modak-Truran* INTRODUCTION Judges must be wise. Sound judicial reasoning requires moral virtue. These sentiments about judging have been lost.' They apparently belong to a bygone era. While many advocate self- restraint or prudence as judicial virtues,2 moral virtue has been conspicuously absent from the list. Except for avoiding obvious vices such as bribery, favoritism, prejudice, sloth, and arbitrariness, conventional wisdom maintains that being a good judge does not require being a good person. Even theorists sympathetic to a relationship between law and morality balk at making moral virtue a prerequisite of judicial decision making.' Rather, many contend that * Assistant Professor of Law, Mississippi College School of Law. B.A., Gustavus Adolphus College; J.D., Northwestern University; A.M., Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago. I would like to thank Steven Heyman, Richard Kraut, and Ernest Weinrib for helpful comments on this Article. I also want to thank Mississippi College for supporting my work on this Article and Jeff Carson for his research assistance. 1. Cf. ANTHONY T. KRONMAN, THE LOST LAWYER: FAILING IDEALS OF THE LEGAL PROFESSION 2 (1993) (describing a spiritual crisis in the legal profession due to the loss of the ideal lawyer-statesman who strives not to be a technician but to become a person of practical wisdom). 2. See, e.g., David Luban, Justice Holmes and Judicial Virtue, in VIRTUE: NOMOS XXXIV 235, 242-56 (John W. Chapman & William A. Galston eds., 1992) (summarizing and criticizing Justice Holmes's philosophical justification of self-restraint as a judicial virtue) [hereinafter VIRTUE]; Terry Pinkard, JudicialVirtue and DemocraticPolitics, in VIRTUE, supra, at 265, 281- 82 (criticizing legal realist and majoritarian premises supporting Holmesian self-restraint); Judith N. -
COS – Coinage and Society
University Museum of Cultural Heritage, University of Oslo Håkon Ingvaldsen COS – Coinage and Society The chronology and function of a city-state coinage in the Classical and Hellenistic period, c.390 – c.170 BC A thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor Philosophiae at the University of Oslo 2002 _________________________________________________________________________ © Håkon Ingvaldsen, 2002 ISSN 0806-3222 Cover: Inger Sandved Anfinsen Series of dissertations submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo No. 149 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without permission. Printed in Norway: GCS Media AS, Oslo Publisher: Unipub AS, Oslo 2002 Unipub AS is owned by The University Foundation for Student Life (SiO) _________________________________________________________________________ for Anne & Frida _________________________________________________________________________ blank Contents List of abbreviations vii Acknowledgements ix Preface xi INTRODUCTION.......................................................................................................................... 1 The character of the sources...................................................................................................... 2 - Coins.............................................................................................................................. 2 - Inscriptions.................................................................................................................... -
A Companion to Ancient Greek Government
A COMPANION TO ANCIENT GREEK GOVERNMENT BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD This series provides sophisticated and authoritative overviews of periods of ancient history, genres of classical literature, and the most important themes in ancient culture. Each volume comprises approximately twenty-five and forty concise essays written by individual scholars within their area of specialization. The essays are written in a clear, provocative, and lively manner, designed for an international audience of scholars, students, and general readers. ANCIENT HISTORY A Companion to Greek Religion Edited by Daniel Ogden Published A Companion to the Roman Army A Companion to the Classical Tradition Edited by Paul Erdkamp Edited by Craig W. Kallendorf A Companion to the Roman Republic A Companion to Roman Rhetoric Edited by Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Edited by William Dominik and Jon Hall Morstein-Marx A Companion to Greek Rhetoric A Companion to the Roman Empire Edited by Ian Worthington Edited by David S. Potter A Companion to Ancient Epic A Companion to the Classical Greek World Edited by John Miles Foley Edited by Konrad H. Kinzl A Companion to Greek Tragedy A Companion to the Ancient Near East Edited by Justina Gregory Edited by Daniel C. Snell ACompaniontoLatinLiterature A Companion to the Hellenistic World Edited by Stephen Harrison Edited by Andrew Erskine A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought A Companion to Late Antiquity Edited by Ryan K. Balot Edited by Philip Rousseau ACompaniontoOvid A Companion to Ancient History Edited by Peter E. Knox Edited by Andrew Erskine A Companion to the Ancient Greek Language A Companion to Archaic Greece Edited by Egbert Bakker Edited by Kurt A. -
Eisangelia and Euthyna: the Trials of Miltiades, Themistocles, and Cimon Edwin M
CARAWAN, EDWIN M., "Eisangelia" and "Euthyna": the Trials of Miltiades, Themistocles, and Cimon , Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies, 28:2 (1987:Summer) p.167 Eisangelia and Euthyna: the Trials of Miltiades, Themistocles, and Cimon Edwin M. Carawan OLITICAL TRIALS at Athens in the early fifth century are known to P us only from brief references, but much of the reconstruction of Athenian constitutional history, from Cleisthenes to Ephialtes, depends upon the interpretation of these procedures. According to the atthidographic tradition in the Athenaion Politeia, the Areopagus con trolled impeachments for major offenses (eisangeliai), as well as the accountings of public officials (euthynai), until Ephialtes' reforms; but other references clearly indicate that the demos had already assumed authority in trials for treason and conspiracy and in prosecutions for official misconduct, including the trials of Miltiades, Themistocles, and Cimon. 1 In recent work M. H. Hansen has concluded that eis angeliai of the pre-Ephialtic period were tried before the ekklesia or the court of the people, and in these trials the Areopagus had no of ficialjurisdiction; P. J. Rhodes has argued that sovereignty in eisange liai belonged to the Areopagus until Ephialtes conferred these powers upon the people, and has suggested that the partisan verdicts of the Areopagus in the trials of Themistocles and Cimon helped to provoke democratic reform.2 Without decisive evidence for the earlier pro ceedings, the debate has focused upon the nomos eisangeltikos and political trials after 461, but there is still no consensus on the rules of jurisdiction in classical eisangelia and very little agreement on the origin of these rules. -
The Living Constitution of Ancient Athens: a Comparative Perspective on the Originalism Debate, 42 J
UIC Law Review Volume 42 Issue 2 Article 3 Winter 2009 The Living Constitution of Ancient Athens: A Comparative Perspective on the Originalism Debate, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 463 (2009) Mark J. Sundahl Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.law.uic.edu/lawreview Part of the Comparative and Foreign Law Commons, Constitutional Law Commons, Courts Commons, International Law Commons, Judges Commons, Jurisprudence Commons, Law and Philosophy Commons, Law and Society Commons, and the Legal History Commons Recommended Citation Mark J. Sundahl, The Living Constitution of Ancient Athens: A Comparative Perspective on the Originalism Debate, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 463 (2009) https://repository.law.uic.edu/lawreview/vol42/iss2/3 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by UIC Law Open Access Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in UIC Law Review by an authorized administrator of UIC Law Open Access Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. THE LIVING CONSTITUTION OF ANCIENT ATHENS: A COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE ON THE ORIGINALISM DEBATE MARK J. SUNDAHL* I.Introduction .................................................................................. 463 II.The Modern Debate: Originalism vs. a Living Constitution .... 467 III.A Brief Sketch of the Athenian Government and Legal S y stem ................................................................................... 474 A . The Sources ................................................................... 475 B. The Organs of Government -
40 Dr. Sima Avramović LEGAL STANDING and CIVIC IDENTITY
CERIF: H210, H300 Dr. Sima Avramović* LEGAL STANDING AND CIVIC IDENTITY OF ATHENIAN MERCENARIES – A CASE STUDY The author examines different issues considering legal and social standing of mercenaries, mostly being focused upon the fourth court speech (On the Estate of Nicostratus) of the Athenian speech-writer Isaeus, teacher of Demosthenes. On the one hand, he reveals a number of neglected data about mercenaries in terms of their legal activities in and out of their native polis. On the other hand, based on those findings and on other sources, the author studies the issue of Athenian civic identity in the case of mercenaries who spent years or decades out of their city-state without participating in the political life of the polis. In that context he examines the question of whether a mercenary was regarded as “politikos” or “idiotes”. As civic identity was mostly based on the citizenship, the author claims that mercenaries enjoyed a kind of sub-identity or “frozen civic identity”. Key words: Isaeus. – Law of inheritance. – Athenian citizenship. – Politikos (an- thropos). – Idiotes. – Sub-identity. – Frozen civic identity. 1. THRIVING OF MERCENARIES IN ANCIENT GREECE Ancient Greece and its neighbors were among the first civilizations where mercenaries were employed on a quite large scale. According to the tradition, the first mention of professional soldiers in history is con- nected to the biblical Jewish king David who in the 10th century B.C. * Professor, University of Belgrade Faculty of Law, [email protected]. The arti- cle is mostly based on the paper read at the XIX Internationales Sommerseminar für An- tike Rechtsgeschichte und Römisches Recht, Frankfurt am Main, May 14–17, 2015.