The language of ‘revolution’ makes for powerful rhetoric, whether in a political realm or in the institutional politics which governs the award of academic research grants.1 In an earlier book,Rethinking Revolutions through Classical Greece, published by Cambridge University Press in 2006, we have explored how the rhetoric of revolution has come to be applied to classical Greece. There is no st...

In the Lysistrata of Aristophanes, the women of all Greece, deprived of sexual pleasure because their husbands are fighting each other in the Peloponnesian War, determine to end the war. To secure their own sensuous good, they agree on a sex-strike against their husbands and the seizing of the Athenian acropolis. The seizing of the Acropolis, however, leads to a deepening of heir goals. Opposed...

Summary The politeia established in Athens 317 after a covenant between Cassander and Demetrius of Phalerum was variously described by ancient authors as tyranny, an oligarchy, democracy. Even among modern scholars there is no agreement about its definition. A close study the architecture so-called regime comparison with almost contemporary constitution Cyrene, imposed on African town Ptolemaeu...

In 430 BC, a plague struck the city of Athens, which was then under siege by Sparta during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC). In the next 3 years, most of the population was infected, and perhaps as many as 75,000 to 100,000 people, 25% of the city's population, died. The Athenian general and historian Thucydides left an eye-witness account of this plague and a detailed description to allow fu...

In his famous book " Democracy and its Critics " (1989), Robert A. Dahl argues that, historically speaking, there have been two transformations of democracy. These transformations have brought about different models of democratic governance and different interpretations of the concept of democracy. By the fi rst transformation Dahl refers to the the emergence of the classical model of democracy...

Representations of motherhood are rare on Athenian painted pottery from the fifth century BC. This lack representation is surprising given producing and caring for children was one a woman’s key duties in ancient society, other evidence demonstrates close bonds women had with their children, especially infants who were all more need care attention. In this article we explore entangled lives mot...

We live in a knowledge economy. The core assets of the modern business enterprise aren't its buildings, machinery, and real estate, but the intelligence, understanding, skills, and experience of its employees. Harnessing the capabilities and commitment of knowledge workers is arguably the central managerial challenge of our time. Unfortunately, it is a challenge that has not yet been met. Corpo...

This article continues the series of publications on universum evolution ancient civilization, its subcivilizations and is devoted to consideration controversial socio-economic political processes in Athenian area Ancient Greece second half 8th - first 4th century. BC e. Attention focused characteristics important stages state formation Athens. It shown that accelerated development market commo...

Popular discourse about freedom of speech tends to default the metaphor marketplace ideas, notwithstanding empirical evidence undermining this concept. Its persistence illustrates profound attachment inspires, despite difficulty justifying it in epistemic terms. I suggest that ancient Greek historian Herodotus offers a compelling alternative with his account isegoria at Athens. In Herodotus’s t...

Abstract This paper focuses on the integration of refugees and immigrants into Greek society through provision housing. topic is a hot one due to fact that many refuges have arrived in Greece during previous years there need remain for long time. Thus, housing imperative. However, economic crisis, creation such spaces expensive unachievable. As result, alternatives should be examined. For this ...