Mass and elite in the Greek and Roman worlds : from Sparta to late antiquity /

"The discussion in this volume offers an analysis of the defining roles of mass and elite elements in Greek and Roman society, and in their socio-political, economic, military and religious contexts. This interaction, whether it was in terms of conflict or in cooperation between the mass--the g...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Evans, Richard J., 1954- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2017]
Series:Acta classica. Supplementum ; 7.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface / Richard Evans (University of South Africa)
  • Mass and elite revisited / Josiah Ober (Stanford University)
  • Coinage and democracy: economic redistribution as the basis of democratic Athens / Matthew Trundle (University of Auckland)
  • The frame of mind of [eutaxia] / Luca Sansone di Campobianco (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban)
  • Ancient cynicism: for the elite or for the masses? / Philip Bosman (University of South Africa)
  • Livy on mass and elite interaction in Syracuse in 214 BC: libertas, multitudo, uxores / Richard Evans (University of South Africa)
  • Plebeian agency in the later Roman Republic / Loonis Logghe (University of Ghent)
  • Populating satire 1.6: mass and elite in the poetry of Horace / Suzanne Sharland (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban)
  • Living in Republican Rome: 'shanty metropolis' / Lisa Marie Mignone (Brown University)
  • City, village, sacrifice: the political economy of religion in the early Roman Empire / Clifford Ando (University of Chicago)
  • Crowds and power: the relationship betweeb crwods and power in the Misopogon of the Emperor Julian and Aethiopica of Heliodorus / John Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban)
  • From mass to elite in the later Roman Empire: framing the problem of mass to elite social mobility / Hartmut Ziche (University of the Antilles/Johannesburg)
  • Mass and elite in late antique religion: the case of Manichaeism / Nicholas Baker-Brian (Cardiff University).