The Athenian Nation
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: May 22, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9780691048420
Subjects: Social classes; History - General History; Ancient Greece - History; History; Social stratification; Religion; Social conditions; HIS002010; HIS; Ancient Greece; Archaeology and Ancient History; Classics; European history: BCE to c 500 CE; History / Ancient / Greece; Social & cultural anthropology; Athens; Ancient - Greece; Athens (Greece); Greece
First sentence: BY ARISTOTELIAN standards, Athens was not a polis at all.
Description: "Challenging the modern assumption that ancient Athens is best understood as a polis, Edward Cohen boldly recasts our understanding of Athenian political and social life.

Cohen demonstrates that ancient sources referred to Athens not only as a polis, but also as a "nation" (ethnos), and that Athens did encompass the characteristics now used to identify a "nation." He argues that in Athens, economic, religious, sexual, and social dimensions were no less significant than political and juridical considerations and accordingly rejects prevailing scholarship's equation of Athens with its male citizen body."--BOOK JACKET.