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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Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
[2017]
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| 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).