Description
Book Synopsis'Old Oligarch' is a label often applied to the unknown author of the Athenian Constitution preserved with the works of Xenophon. Probably written in the mid 420s B.C., it is the earliest surviving Athenian prose text, and its author was probably a young pupil of the teachers known as sophists.
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Table of ContentsPreface References Introduction: 1. The name 'Old Oligarch 2. The title of the work 3. dating 4. authorship 5. The author and his immediate audience 6. The self-interest theory 7. The two-fold class division: the demos versus the oligoi 8. Class designations and class labels 9. Other stylistic features 10. Structure 11. The text Dates assigned to the Constitution of the Athenians Select Bibliography Text & translation Constitution of the Athenians Commentary Appendixes: 1) The imagined criticisms answered in the work 2) Occurances of the words demos/demotikoi/demokratia 3) Qualities & characteristics ascribed to the demos and the oligoi 4) Class designations & class labels 5) Characteristic vocabulary 6) Examples of verbal repetition 7) Generalisations Index
