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Book SynopsisThe pioneering ideas of John Kenyon Davies, one of the most significant Ancient Historians of the past half century, are celebrated in this collection of essays. A distinguished cast of contributors, who include Alain Bresson, Nick Fisher, Edward Harris, John Prag, Robin Osborne, and Sally Humphreys, focus tightly on the nexus of socio-political and economic problems that have preoccupied Davies since the publication of his defining work Athenian Propertied Families in 1971. The scope of Davies’ interest has ranged widely in conceptual, and chronological, as well as geographical terms, and the essays here reflect many of his long-term concerns with the writing of Greek history, its methods and materials. The pioneering ideas of John Kenyon Davies, one of the most significant Ancient Historians of the past half century, are celebrated in this collection of essays. A distinguished cast of contributors, who include Alain Bresson, Nick Fisher, Edward Harris, John Prag, Robin Osborne, and Sally Humphreys, focus tightly on the nexus of socio-political and economic problems that have preoccupied Davies since the publication of his defining work Athenian Propertied Families in 1971. The scope of Davies’ interest has ranged widely in conceptual, and chronological, as well as geographical terms, and the essays here reflect many of his long-term concerns with the writing of Greek history, its methods and materials.
Table of ContentsPreface 1 Imaginary propertied families: kinship in epic poetry
S. C. Humphreys 2 ‘Charis, sweetest of gods’: wealth and reciprocity in Classical Athens
Nick Fisher 3 Herodotus and the social contexts of memory in Ancient Greece: the individual historian and his community
Edward M. Harris 4 From Croesus to Pausanias: tragic individuals in early Greek historiography
Jan Haywood 5 Euergetism and the public economy of Classical Athens: the initiative of the deme
Robin Osborne 6 The priesthoods of the Eteoboutadai
Stephen Lambert 7 Tegeas from Torone and some truths about ancient markets
Zosia Halina Archibald 8 At the roots of a revolution. Land ownership, citizenship and military service in Macedonia before and after Philip II
Manuela Mari 9 A twenty-first century Philippic
A. J. N. W. Prag with J. H. Musgrave and R. A. H. Neave 10 Apollo, the tutelary god of the Seleucids and Demodamas of Miletus
Krzysztof Nawotka 11 From Xerxes to Mithridates: kings, coins and economic life at Kelainai-Apamela
Alain Bresson 12 John Davies, Greek historian
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