Beschreibung:
Violence, Civil Strife and Revolution in the Classical City, first published in 1982, gives a conspectus of stasis in the societies of Greek antiquity, and traces the development of civil strife as city-states grew in political, social and economic sophistication. Special consideration is given to the attitudes of the participants and the theoretical explanations offered at the time.
Preface; Abbreviations of Modern Works Used in the Notes; Introduction 1. Violence in Archaic Society and its Legacy 2. Political Conflicts in the Growing City-States 3. Imperialism and the Conflict over Constitutions 4. Democracy and Oligarchy in Athens 5. Syracuse - Democracy and Tyranny 6. Greece and the Aegean in the Fourth Century BC 7. The Philosophers and Civil Conflict - Aristotle's Politics 8. The Importance of Civil Strife in the Classical City; Appendix I: Problems in the Oligarchic Revolutions; Appendix II: Herakleia on the Pontos; Appendix III: Thessaly; Appendix IV: Professor Ruschenbusch's View of Greek Civil Strife; Bibliography; Index