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Index
Cover Page
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface
Introduction
I. The Myth of the Idle Mob
Before the Myth: Athens, the Industrious ‘Mechanic Commonwealth’
The Turning-Point: Mitford and the Idle, Turbulent Multitude
After Mitford
Boeckh and the Political Economy of Indolence
Burckhardt and the Greek ‘Contempt’ for Labour
Fustel de Coulanges and the Thwarted Bourgeois-Liberal Republic of Athens
An Inversion of the Idle Mob: Marxism and the ‘Slave Mode of Production’
II. Slavery and the Peasant-Citizen
The Limits of Plausibility: Some Reflections on the Number and Location of Slaves in Athens
Linguistic and Conceptual Ambiguities in the Evidence on Slavery
Agricultural Slavery and the Peasant-Citizen
Ste Croix and the Debate on Agricultural Slavery
III. The Polis and the Peasant-Citizen
The Liberation of Labour: From ‘Redistributive’ Kingdom to Tribute-Free Polis
Kings and Landlords, Subjects and Citizens: From the Fall of the Mycenaean Kingdoms to the Reforms of Solon
Landlords and Peasants from Solon to Cleisthenes
Village and State in Democratic Athens
Town and Country in Attica
The Nexus of Freedom and Slavery in Democratic Athens
The Smallholders’ Regime and the Subordination of Women
The Dynamic Contradictions of the Peasant Regime
Democracy and Empire
IV. Athenian Democracy: A Peasant Culture?
The Greek Concept of Freedom
The Athenian Attitude to Labour
Rulers and Producers: The Philosophical Subversion of Athenian Democracy
Technological Stagnation?
The Cultural Vitality of Athens: A Contradiction Between ‘Base’ and ‘Superstructure’?
Appendix I: Textual Evidence Concerning Slavery
Appendix II: Some Considerations on the Evidence for Tenancy
Notes
Index
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