Index

aboulia

absolutism

Abydos, battle of

Acarnania, battle of (427 BCE)

accountability

Achaemenid empire

Achilles

Acropolis

action, and representation

Aegospotami, battle of (405 BCE)

Aeschines

Aeschylean tragedy

Aeschylus

Choephoroi

The Danaids

Eumenides

Oresteia

Prometheus Bound

Suppliant Women

Agamemnon

Agesilaus

Agora

aidōs

Alcaeus

Alcibiades

Alcmaeonids

allotment machine

amateurism, and Athenian legal system

American Founding Fathers

Amphipolis, battle of

Anaxagoras

Anaximander

ancients, liberty of compared to the moderns

Anderson, Greg

Antipater

Apollodorus

archaic Greece

Arendt, Hannah

Areopagus Council

Arginusae, battle of (406 BCE)

Arginusae six, trial of (406 BCE)

aristocracy

Aristophanes

Acharnians

Babylonians

Birds

Clouds

Frogs

Knights

Lysistrata

Wasps

Women at the Assembly

Aristotle

Athenaion Politeia

and civic education

and democracy

Nicomachean Ethics

Poetics

political eudaimonism of

Politics

Rhetoric

on Solon

Arnason, Johann P.

assemblies

citizens participating in

and Cleisthenes’ reforms

composition of

function of

voting by a show of hands

Assmann, Jan

Assyria

Athena

Athena Nike temple

Athenaion Politeia

Athenian Stranger (Plato, Laws)

Athenian Tribute Lists

Athenocentrism

Athens

up to 480 BCE

480–403 BCE

in the fourth century

impact of democracy on communal life

inscriptions and the city in democratic

law and democracy in classical

and political philosophy

political uses of rhetoric in democratic

socio-political transformations

Attic comedy

Attic tragedy

Attica, political map of

Austin, C.

autochthones

autonomia

autonomy

Axial Age

Bakhtin, M.

Balot, Ryan

Barber, B.R.

Bellah, Robert

Berlin, Isaiah

‘Two concepts of liberty’ lecture

Bertelli, Lucio

Bleicken, Jochen

Boedeker, Deborah

Bonapartist model

Bourdieu, Pierre

Brasidas, Commander

Brelich, A.

Bremer, J.M.

Buddhism

buildings

connection with democracy

religious

Burckhardt, Jacob

Burke, Edmund

Callipolis

capitalism

Carey, C.

Carlier, Pierre

carnival-ritualistic theory

Cartledge, Paul

Casassas, David

Castoriadis, Cornelius

cemeteries

census (317 BCE)

Chaeronea, battle of (338 BCE)

Charter of the Second Athenian League

China

Christian Church

Cicero

Cimon

cities, Greek

and inscriptions

‘cities of reason’

citizens/citizenry

active participation of

apathy of

compensating of for public service

composition of Athenian

citizenship

and legal system

and personal freedom

procedures determining

relation between economic involvement and political

city planning

civic ideology

civic presence

civic space, shaping of by democracy

civic virtue

class

Cleisthenes

expulsion of and return

reforms of

Cleomenes, King of Sparta

Cleon

depicted in Aristophanes’ Knights

depicted in Aristophanes’ Wasps

indictment of Aristophanes

Mytilenian question and debate with Diodotus

collective decision-making

collective self-determination

‘colonies’

colonization, Greek

comedy

Attic

carnival-ritualistic theory of

and the ‘Company of Athenian Critics’ of democracy

as a conduit for public anxiety

and Cratinus

criticism of democracy on stage

criticism of Hyperbolus by comics

criticism of Pericles by Cratinus

criticism of post-Periclean politicians

and freedom of speech

and iambic style

pragmatic view of

social and cultural role of in Athens

see also Aristophanes

communal life

active participation of Athenian citizens

and the Agora

assemblies see assemblies

civic obligations imposed on the elite

compensating citizens for public service

and family

festivals see festivals

impact of democracy on

interaction of all classes, genders, and statuses

and public speeches

selection of magistrates and jurors by lot

shaping of civic space by democracy

and women

Conon

‘consciousness of ability’

Constant, Benjamin

Constitution of the 5,000

Constitution of the Athenians, The see Athenaion Politeia

constitutional conflict

constitutional dichotomy

efforts to overcome

Corcyra

Council of the

Council of

Council House

councils

courts

depicted in Aristophanes’ Wasps

enforcement of norms by

organization and working of

public order and Athenian popular

public order and popular

speeches

verdicts

see also legal system

Cratinus

Cheirones

Dionysalexandros

Nemesis

Ploutoi

Putine

Creon

Crete

Creuzer, Georg Friedrich

cults

Cyclopes

Cyprus

Cyrene

Cyrsilus

Darius I

Davies, J.K.

debates/debating

debt-bondage, abolition of

decision-making

collective

demos’s participation in

and war

decrees

inscriptions of

public display of

Dekeleia

Delian League

deliberative democracy

Delium, battle of (424 BCE)

Delphi

Delphi oracle

Demades

demes

and religion

Demetrius of Phaleron

democracy

and comedy

comparison between modern and ancient

critics of

danger of deciding too quickly in Athenian

definition of Athenian

and dissent

elitist theory of

and freedom

and historiography

impact of on communal life

and inscriptions in the city of Athens

paradoxes of Athenian

and Plato

and political philosophy

and religion

shaping of civic space by

and sophists

stability and change in

totalitarian breakdown of

and tragedy

transformations of

use of rhetoric by critics of

and war

‘democratic formulae of disclosure’

democratic political imaginary

democratic revolution

democracy after

democratization

democratic thought at the time of

Democritus

dēmokratia

Demophantus, decree of

demos

citizens participating in the assemblies

composition of Athenian citizenry

decisions about war

depiction of in Aristophanes’ Wasps

dichotomy between inclusive and exclusive

expressing of sovereignty in people’s law courts

meaning of

participation in decision-making

and political elite

power of

and public debate

relationship with its leaders in Aristophanes’ Knights

resistance to attempts to establish an oligarchy

role of in ‘Cleisthenes’ revolution’

sovereignty of

Demosthenes

and Aeschines

Against Eubulides speech

Against Meidias speech

dispute over whether to award an honorary crown to

funeral oration

legal battle with Meidias

On the Crown

speech on Philip II’s expansionist strategy

Third Philippic

Detienne, Marcel

Diodorus

Diodotus

Dionysius of Halicarnassus

Dionysius I

Dionysus

Festival of

direct democracies

discourse

dissent, and democracy

documents of empire

Draco, laws of

Dreros inscription

Durkheim, Emile

economic involvement, relation between political citizenship and

economic issues, and war

economic liberalism

education

egalitarian elements, in early Greek society

Egypt

Eleusinian mysteries

Elias, Norbert

elites

civic obligations imposed on

war as prerogative of

Empedocles

empire, and democracy

Ephialtes

reforms of

Epicureans

epigraphy

epitaphioi logoi see funeral orations

Eponymous Heroes, Monument of the

equality

among fighters in war

egalitarian elements in early Greek society

and emergence of a community of ‘peers’

in the evolution of Greek democracy

and Hesiod’s epics

in Homer’s epics

and hoplite fighting

in late fifth-century democracy

erastēs

Eratosthenes

Erechtheus

ethnos

Euben, Peter

euboulia

fragility of

Eubulus

eudaimonia

eudaimonism, Plato and Aristotle’s political

eunomia (good order)

Euphiletus

Eupolis

Euripides

Andromache

Bacchae

Hippolytus

Phoenician Women

Suppliants

war plays

Eurocentrism

exclusion, and inclusion

family

farmers

festivals

competitive

Dionysia

Panathenaic

fields, intellectual

Finley, Moses

Fisher, Nick

Flaig, Egon

fleet, Athenian

Flory, Stewart

Flower, Michael

Forsdyke, Sara

Foucault, Michel

founders-legislators (aisymnētēs)

Four Hundred (400 BCE)

free non-citizens

freedom

beyond contract and exchange

and citizenship

comparison between moderns and ancients

and democracy

of and in the Polis

freedom of speech

French Revolution

funeral orations

Pericles’

generals

Geneva

Georgiades, Thrasybulos

gods

honoring of with inscriptions

invoking of in Athenian discourse

reverence and dedication to

Gomme, A.W.

Gorgias

The Encomium of Helen

Palamedes

‘Great Rhetra’

Greece, place of in history of political thought

Grethlein, Jonas

Grote, G.

gymnasia

Hagnon, General

Halliwell, S.

Hansen, Mogens

Hector

Hedrick, Charles

Hegel

The Phenomenology of Mind

Hegung der Macht

Heidegger, Martin

Hera

Heracles

Heraclitus

Hermippus

Hermocrates

Herodotus

‘Constitutional Debate’

and democracy

Histories

Hesiod

Theogony

Works and Days

heteronomy

hieropoioi

hikesia

Hipparchus

hippeis

Hippias

Hippodamus of Miletus

historical-comparative sociology

historiography

and democracy

emergence and rise of in Greece

and oratory

Hobbes, Thomas

Hodkinson, Stephen

Hölkeskamp, K.-J.

Homer

Iliad

Odyssey

Homeric epics

Homeric poems

honors, granting of

hoplites

human flourishing see eudaimonia

human rights

Hunt, Peter

Hyperbolus

Hyperides

ill-advisedness see aboulia

imaginary polis

imprisonment

inclusion, and exclusion

India

individualist liberalism

inscribed laws

inscriptions

to BCE

BCE

on the Acropolis

anti-oligarchic

and Athena

Athenian Tribute Lists

of decrees

documents of empire

emergence of non-funerary

erection in places to which the contents of the inscriptions applied

in the fourth century

function of

and hieropoioi

honoring of Athenians

honoring of gods with

and kurbeis

polētai

purpose of as seen by Athenians

instituted, distinction between instituting and

institutions

intercivilizational connections

Ionian Greeks

Isagoras

isēgoria

Isocrates

Antidosis

isonomia

Israel

Jacoby, Felix

judicial speeches

Judt, Tony

juries/jurors

payments offered to

selection of

Kant, Immanuel

Karagiannis, Nathalie

kingship

koinon

Kojève, Alexandre

Koselleck, Reinhart

kratos

kurbeis

Kyle, Donald

Lambert, S.D.

Lanni, Adriaan

Late Bronze Age crisis

law(s)

public display of

see also legal system

leadership, shift in

League of Corinth

Lefort, Claude

legal system

and amateurism

arguments based on extra-statutory norms

and citizenship

court speeches

court verdicts

and democracy in classical Athens

early history

enforcement of norms by courts

forms of punishment

high frequency of litigation

juries/jurors

and magistrates

mechanisms limiting false testimony

organization and working of courts

private cases

prosecutions

public order and popular courts

sentencing

small claims

and statutory argumentation

steps in bringing suit before a court

under-enforcement of statutes

and victimless offences

Leo

Lesbos

Lévi-Strauss, Claude

liberal society

liberty see freedom

linguistic turn

literary rhetoric

liturgy system

‘live as you like’ principle

Lloyd, Geoffrey

logographoi

Loraux, Nicole

lot

Lycurgus

Lydian kingdom

Lysander

Lysianic rhetoric

Lysias

Against Philon

For the Invalid

For Mantiheus

funeral oration and review of the Athenian past

On the Death of Eratosthenes

Macedonia/Macedonians

Madison, James

magistrates

selection of

majority principle

Malkin, Irad

Mannheim, Karl

Mantinea, battle of (362 BCE)

Mantitheus

Marathon, battle of

marginal groups

Marinatos, Nanno

Marincola, J.

market society

marriage laws

Marx, Karl

mass mobilization

Megara/Megarains

Megarian Decree

Meidias

Meier, Christian

Meier, Mischa

Melanthius

Meletus

Melian dialogue

mercenaries

Mesopotamia

Messenia

metics

Meuli, K.

Meyer, Elizabeth

micro-history

military determinism

Mill, John Stuart

Miltiades

Minoans

misthophoria (pay for public service)

misthos

mixed constitution, theory of

moderns, liberty of compared to the ancients

Momigliano, Arnaldo

monarchy

monotheism

Monument of the Eponymous Heroes

monuments, connection with democracy

Morichides’ decree (BCE)

Morris, Ian

Mossé, Claude

Murray, Oswyn

Mycenaeans

Mysteries, affair of see Eleusinian mysteries

Mytilene/Mytilenians

Naquet, Pierre Vidal

Near East

cultural borrowings from

needle’s eye metaphor

Nicias

Nicolaüs

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Beyond Good and Evil

The Birth of Tragedy

‘The Greek State’

Human-All-too-Human

Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks

‘Richard Wagner in Bayreuth’

‘Schopenhauer as Educator’

Science and Wisdom in Conflict

on slaves

on tyranny

The Use and Misuse of History for Life

Zarathustra

Nightingale, Andrea

Ober, Josiah

Political Dissent in Democratic Athens

Odysseus

Oedipus

‘Old Oligarch’

oligarchy/oligarchs see also Thirty Tyrants

Olympia

opposites, Greek use of

oracles see also Delphi oracle

oratory/orators

competition between orators

criticism of by Thucydides

funeral orations see funeral orations

and Herodotus’ History

and historiography

and Platonic dialogues

and power

promoting of democratic ideology

and relationship between democracy and historiography

speech duel at Plataea

Osborne, Robin

ostracism

Ostwald, Martin

Paine, Thomas

Palmer, R.R.

Panathenaic festival

Parker, Robert, Polytheism and Society at Athens

Parthenon

frieze

participatory democracy

Peisistratus

peitho

Pelasgus, King

Peloponnesian War

collisions between rich and poor

depicted in Aristophanes’ Acharnians

end of (404 BCE)

Thucydides’ history of see Thucydides

losses

Pericles

criticism of by Cratinus

funeral oration

and Megarian Decree

reforms of

speech to Athenian assembly (431 BCE)

Thucydides’

on value of democracy

war strategy against Sparta

Persian wars

Phaeacians

phalanx

Philip of Macedon

Philon

philosophy

and politics

and tragedy

see also political philosophy

Phocion

Phoenicians

city-states of

Phrynichus

phylai

Plataea, battle of

Plataea, speech duel at

Plato

Apology of Socrates

and civic education

Crito

and democracy

emphasis on ‘rule of knowledge’

Gorgias

Laches

Laws

Phaedrus

political eudaimonism of

Protagoras

Republic

and sophists

Platonius

plēthos

Plutarch, Solon

Pnyx

Pocock, J.G.A.

poetry, political

poets

pōlētai

polis

formative period

freedom of and in the

origins

tyranny and tragedy in Nietzsche’s understanding of the Greek

politeia

politeuomenoi

political

cultural extensions of the

emergence of the

in the evolution of Greek democracy

in late fifth-century democracy

and politics

and religion

transformation of

ways in which to understand

political class

political elite

political field

political imaginary

political liberalism

political philosophy

and democracy

differences between Athenian democracy and Platonic

gap between Athenian democratic thought and

and Lysias’ review of the Athenian past

Platonic turn

political eudaimonism of Plato and Aristotle

and Socratic self-examination

and sophists

political rationality

political reflection

political revolution

political sphere

Greek tragedy and the democratic

political thought

politicized citizen

politics

and philosophy

and the political

and religion

Polybius

polycentrism

polytheism

postcolonial studies

Potidaea, siege of

power, tripartite division of

priestesses

private sphere

Prodicus

professionalization

property ownership

Protagoras

on civic virtue

and democracy

Plato’s dialogue on

Pseudo-Xenophon

Constitution of the Athenians

public debate see debates/debating

public order, and Athenian public courts

public speeches

equality of

punishment, forms of

Putney debates (1647)

Pylos, battle of

Raaflaub, Kurt

racial prejudice

Rawls, John

Reden, Sitta von

reflexivity, and rhetoric

religion

choosing of religious figures

and Cleisthenes’ reforms

cults

and demes

and democracy

and gods see gods

impact of democratic way of life on

and the political

and politics

and polytheism

polytheism and absence of victimization of particular cultural groups

and sacrifice

‘weakness’ of Greek

religious buildings

religious festivals see festivals

religious imaginary

Renaissance

representation

and action

and practice

representative democracies

republic/republicanism

rhetoric

Aristotle on aim of

Athens as center of rhetorical activity

categories of speeches

of crisis

of democratic characterization

and Demosthenes’ One Crown

as instrument of political communication

and Isocrates’ Antidosis

literary

and Lysias

and Plato’s Apology for Socrates

political

and politics in democratic Athens

purpose of

and sophists

stages in evolution of

Thucydides’ use of literary

training in

use of by critics of democracy

Rhetoric for Alexander

Rhetra

Rhodes, Peter

rich

riddle, and the oracle

rights

Rome, ancient

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques

Discourse on the Origins of Inequality

Ruge, Arnold

Russian Revolution

sacrifice

Salaminioi

Salamis, battle of (480 BCE)

Samian War

Samos

sanctuaries

objects found dedicated in

Schemeil, Yves

Schmitt, Carl

School of Hellas

Schumpeterian model

Second Athenian Confederation

Second Athenian League

self-examination, Socratic

self-government

Sicilian expedition

Sicily

Simonides

size/space issue

Skinner, Quentin

slavery/slaves

Smith, Adam

social action

Social War

Socrates

invocation of the ‘examined life’

philosophical discourse as form of political discourse

trial and execution of

view of democratic politics

Socratic self-examination

Solon

reforms and legislation of

Sommerstein, A.H.

sophists

and democracy

and Plato

see also Protagoras

Sophocles

Antigone

Philoctetes

Sophoclean tragedy

Sparta/Spartans

and Messenian crisis

relationship with Athens

and religion

and Rhetra

wars with Athens see also Peloponnesian War

speeches

court

public see public speeches

see also oratory/orators; rhetoric

sport facilities

stability, and change in democracy

stasis

efforts to overcome

Solon’s law on

statues

stelae

Stoicism

Strauss, Leo

Strong, Tracy

suffrage, introduction of universal

Syme, Ronald

Syracuse

Syrakosios’ decree (415 BCE)

Tegeans, speech duel with Athenians at Plataea

Telecleides

temples

Themistocles

Theophrastus

Thersites

Theseus

thetes

Thetis

Thirty Tyrants

Thrasybulus

Thrasymachus of Chalcedon

Thucydides

Corcyrean disaster account

criticism of oratory

and democracy

History of the Peloponnesian War

use of literary rhetoric

Thudippus Decree

timocratic system

Timotheus

Tocqueville, Alexis de

Democracy in America

Tolmides

tragedy, Greek

and acting too swiftly

Attic

contrast between aboulia and euboulia

and democracy

factors contributing to emergence

and festival of Dionysus

origin and political function of

and philosophy

Sophoclean

and tyranny in Nietzsche

tribal divisions

trierarchy

Tritle, Lawrence

Twain, Mark

Tyrannicides, The (statue)

tyrannis

tyranny

archaic

and tragedy in Nietzsche

see also Thirty Tyrants

tyranny of the majority

United States

Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

van Wees, Hans

Vernant, Jean-Pierre

Versnel, Henk

Vidal-Naquet, Pierre

virtue

civic

and Lysias’ funeral oration

virtue politics

voting by show of hands (cheirotonia)

Wagner, Peter

Wagner, Richard

Wallace, Saro

Walzer, Michael

war

casualties of

democratic decisions about

and democracy

economic issues

emergence of the trierachy

equality among fighters

generals

impact of

memorializing of dead

mustering of troops for campaign

profiting from by poorer Athenians and hoplites

as stressor

trial and execution of the Arginusae six

veterans

war dead, public funeral for

war orphans

war-wounded

Weber, Max

Weil, Simone

women

equality of

restrictions on freedom of movement and lifestyle

role of in community

World War I

worship, rituals of

Xenophanes of Colophon

Xenophon

Memorabilia

On Revenues

Xeres, King

Yunis, Harvey

Zeus

zōion politikon