'Aristocracy' in Antiquity: Redefining Greek and Roman Elites

By: FISHER, NickContributor(s): WEES, Hans vanMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Swansea The Classical Press of Wales 2015 Edition: 1stISBN: 9780000000000Subject(s): Citizenship--History, Ancient | Elite (Social sciences)--Greece--History, Ancient | Elite (Social sciences)--Rome
Contents:
INTRODUCTION1 The trouble with 'aristocracy'- Hans van Wees (University College, London) and Nick Fisher (Cardiff University) PART I: ELITES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: APPROACHES AND MODELS2 Genealogical and dynastic behaviour in archaic and classical Greece: two gentilician strategies - Alain Duplouy (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) 3 Investigating aristocracy in archaic Rome and central Italy: social mobility, ideology and cultural influences - Guy Bradley (Cardiff University)4 Roman elite mobility under the Principate - Laurens E. Tacoma (University of Leiden)PART II: HEREDITY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY AT ATHENS5 Who were the Eupatrids in archaic Athens? - Antoine Pierrot (Université de Montpellier 3) 6 Aristocracy and the Attic genos: a mythological perspective - Stephen Lambert (Cardiff University) 7 'Aristocracy' in Athenian diplomacy - Noboru Sato (University of Kobe) PART III: COMPETITION AND STRATIFICATION IN THE AEGEAN8 'Aristocratic' values and practices in ancient Greece: Aegina, athletes and coaches in Pindar - Nick Fisher (Cardiff University)9 Honour and genealogy: Megas, his ancestors and strategies of social differentiation in Samos - Olivier Mariaud (Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble) 10 Agonistic aristocrats? The curious case of archaic Crete - James Whitley (Cardiff University) PART IV: GREEK ELITES OVERSEAS11 Modes of colonization and elite integration in archaic Greece - Thomas J. Figueira (Rutgers University, New Jersey) 12 The emergence of elites in archaic Sicily - Gillian Shepherd (La Trobe University, Melbourne)Index and Glossary
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INTRODUCTION1 The trouble with 'aristocracy'- Hans van Wees (University College, London) and Nick Fisher (Cardiff University) PART I: ELITES IN THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN: APPROACHES AND MODELS2 Genealogical and dynastic behaviour in archaic and classical Greece: two gentilician strategies - Alain Duplouy (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) 3 Investigating aristocracy in archaic Rome and central Italy: social mobility, ideology and cultural influences - Guy Bradley (Cardiff University)4 Roman elite mobility under the Principate - Laurens E. Tacoma (University of Leiden)PART II: HEREDITY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY AT ATHENS5 Who were the Eupatrids in archaic Athens? - Antoine Pierrot (Université de Montpellier 3) 6 Aristocracy and the Attic genos: a mythological perspective - Stephen Lambert (Cardiff University) 7 'Aristocracy' in Athenian diplomacy - Noboru Sato (University of Kobe) PART III: COMPETITION AND STRATIFICATION IN THE AEGEAN8 'Aristocratic' values and practices in ancient Greece: Aegina, athletes and coaches in Pindar - Nick Fisher (Cardiff University)9 Honour and genealogy: Megas, his ancestors and strategies of social differentiation in Samos - Olivier Mariaud (Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble) 10 Agonistic aristocrats? The curious case of archaic Crete - James Whitley (Cardiff University) PART IV: GREEK ELITES OVERSEAS11 Modes of colonization and elite integration in archaic Greece - Thomas J. Figueira (Rutgers University, New Jersey) 12 The emergence of elites in archaic Sicily - Gillian Shepherd (La Trobe University, Melbourne)Index and Glossary