The Fifth-Century Athenian Empire: A Balance Sheet

Finley, Μ. I.

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“…Finley had established his ‘antiquarian’ credentials with the publication of his doctoral thesis, Studies in Land and Credit in Ancient Athens, 500–200 BC (). Since then his theoretically informed and path‐breakingstudies of Homeric Greece and Athenian slavery had developed and deepened the basis for a socio‐economichistory of Athens (Finley ). Thus to have joined up DAM with the economic foundations of ancient democracy was an obvious option.…”

Section: The Ancient Economy In the Age Of Extremesmentioning

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Between Utopia and Dystopia: Moses Finley and the Athenian Democracy Versus Moses Finley and the Ancient Economy

Nafissi

2015

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

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Modern scholarly accounts of ancient Greece and more particularly the research programme which broadly frames Moses Finley's contributions are generally traced to George Grote's politically anchored History of Greece and re-evaluationof Athenian democracy. However, notwithstanding their far-reachinginfluence, Finley's writings display an exceptional complexity that has invited a wide spectrum of contradictory interpretations and evaluations. This article extends my previous study of Finley's Athens by locating and exploring an unresolved and still significant debate that he held with himself through the major political and economic writings of his last period (1973–85). It thereby discloses the normative, theoretical, and empirical demands that, on the one hand, informed his account of ‘the ancient economy’ and necessitated its overall incoherence, and, on the other, allowed for a coherently normative account of ‘ancient politics’. In the process, some notable claims about Finley's work and politics are clarified, and it is shown why ‘Finley's ghost is [still] everywhere’ even though the short twentieth century that spanned his life, posed its major questions and set the context and constraints of his answers, has long been over.

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Section: The Ancient Economy In the Age Of Extremesmentioning

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Between Utopia and Dystopia: Moses Finley and the Athenian Democracy Versus Moses Finley and the Ancient Economy

Nafissi

2015

Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies

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“…30 The 29 See Morris,. For the continuation of the democracy into the fourth century without the archê, see Finley;Galpin;Markle 1985;Meiggs, 255-72;and Ober 1989, 23-24. consequences of continuing to seek state-building opportunities were disastrous, as evidenced by the Sicilian Expedition 7.15 and 48), although Athenian naval power still was sufficient for maintenance of naval supremacy in the Aegean until the loss of the ships at Aegospotami in 405.…”

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“…See also Berve, ii.445;Dell 1963 andHammond 1981;and Hammond and Griffith 1979, 14-31, 395-404, and 650-56. 35 For the army see Anson;Bosworth 1971 and1973;Burke 1983;Griffith 1980;Hammond 1980Hammond , (1989Hammond ) 95, and 1992Hammond and Griffith, 148;Markle 1977 and1978;Ps.-Arist. Oec.…”

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The Logic of Opportunity: Philip II, Demosthenes, and the Charismatic Imagination

Butler¹

2010

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Demosthenes' characterization of Philip II of Macedon as a charismatic leader and talented opportunist has framed the historical narrative of the fourth century BCE in terms of what Philip did right and the Greek poleis did wrong. An analysis of Philip's early campaigns, drawing on sociological approaches to the study of opportunity, suggests that his "charismatic imagination" was his open-ended, high-risk, and relentless pursuit of new opportunities for growth. Examination of the opportunities open to the Athenians and the Macedonians helps reframe the debate in terms of the overarching constraints affecting the strategic decisions of both states.

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“…62 After the removal of the League treasury to Athens in 454, it became an offensive military alliance that imposed tribute and compulsory military service on other member cities, determined their foreign policy, and confiscated their lands in the event of noncompliance. 63 In other words, the Achaemenid Empire moved into its 'mature', non-expansive phase 64 because the rise of the Athenian Empire signified the appearance of imitators, betokening the end of that hegemony, and the beginning of a new anarchic phase.…”

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The Iron Age World‐System

Stremlin

2008

History Compass

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This article aims to construct an overview of the Near Eastern Iron Age world‐system (1150–200 bce). Utilizing Giovanni Arrighi's conceptualization of the modern world‐system, it argues that in contrast to civilizational empires and loosely integrated ecumenes, the Iron Age system exhibited many of the same features – a long‐term transformational logic, alternating cycles of hegemony, anarchy and chaos, and the increasing size of the containers of power. To this end, it examines the organization of the Iron Age system by commercially and maritime‐oriented Phoenician city‐states; its consolidation as a system of territorial states under the hegemony of the Neo‐Assyrian Empire; its apex under the Achaemenid Empire, which constructed a territorial empire that covered the entire Near Eastern heartland of this system; its final phase in the form of a Hellenistic condominium of kingdoms that were linked by knowledge networks; and its ultimate dissolution with the rise of a Eurasian trading ecumene, and of new durable civilizations that formed in the Mediterranean and on the Iranian Plateau and effected a core‐shift away from the Near East.

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The Fifth-Century Athenian Empire: A Balance Sheet

Cited by 41 publications

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Between Utopia and Dystopia: Moses Finley and the Athenian Democracy Versus Moses Finley and the Ancient Economy

Between Utopia and Dystopia: Moses Finley and the Athenian Democracy Versus Moses Finley and the Ancient Economy

The Logic of Opportunity: Philip II, Demosthenes, and the Charismatic Imagination

The Iron Age World‐System

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