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Book SynopsisThe first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct, on its own terms, the world of Athens outside the city walls during the classical fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
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Table of ContentsPreface
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Introduction
An Epistemological Problem. Terminology and Design of the Study. Ancient Sources. Scholarly Literature and Overview of Argument. Town vs. Country.
Chapter 1 Settlement
State and Rural Community. Determinants of Rural Residence Patterns. Epigraphic Evidence for Farmstead Residence. Literary Evidence for Rural Residence. The Nucleated Village Center.
Chapter 2 Society
The Attic Rural Family. Philotimia and Rivalry. Patronage: Customary Usage and Institutional Form. Communal Activity in the Deme-Association Center. Conclusion.
Chapter 3 Village
Acharnai. Aixone. Halai Aixonides. Teithras. Three Models.
Chapter 4 Dionysia
Name and Orientation of the Festival. Distribution of the Festival over the Demes. The Events of the Festival and Their Sequence. The Dionysiac Festival beyond the Deme. Conclusions.
Chapter 5 Realities
Settlement, Residence, and Mobility. Patronage: Big Man, Crisis, and Reciprocation. Agricultural Labor: Family, Class, and Gender. Hesiod, the Seasons, and Seasonality. Diet. Clothing. Music. Speech, Orality, and Literacy. Religion: Myth, Cult, and the Town. Mentalité.
Chapter 6 Images
Old Comedy and Aristophanes. Xenophon. Theophrastos of Eresos. Middle Comedy. New Comedy and Menander.
Chapter 7 Philosophy
Reign of Kronos, Hippodamos of Miletos, and Phaleas of Chalkedon. Plato: Deme, Place of Residence, and Urban Outlook. Plato's Social Topography: Rural Spaces and Society in the Republic, Kritias, and Laws, Book 3. The Cretan City in Plato's Laws. Aristotle.
Chapter 8 Paradigms
Bibliography
Subject Index
