The Greek World 479-323 BC

Hornblower, Simon

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“…29 As late as 1991 he cast the Achaemenid empire in the role of a bluntly obstructive impediment to the ongoing "hellenisation" of Asia Minor and the East between the ages of Cyrus and Alexander. 30…”

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“As on a Darkling Plain”: Practitioners, Publics, Propagandists, and Ancient Historiography

McCaskie

2012

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I am a professor of the history of Africa. I have spent four decades researching and writing about the historic West African forest kingdom of Asante (or Ashanti, now in Ghana), the most richly documented and most complex state and society in all of sub-Saharan Africa. In recent years I have become intrigued by the ways in which African histories authored by academic practitioners have been subjected to an ever-rising tide of readings, and misreadings, by interested publics and partisan propagandists. This paper addresses the problematic but understudied interaction between practitioners, publics, and propagandists in the understanding of history today. However, it is not about Africa.

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“As on a Darkling Plain”: Practitioners, Publics, Propagandists, and Ancient Historiography

McCaskie

2012

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“…Furthermore, in the fourth century Gabrielsen (1994) shows that shows that trierarchs often paid others to do the actual captaining of a ship. The fourth century also witnessed the (renewed) use of mercenaries, now also in the wars between the poleis (Hornblower, 1983), which may imply that military service was not compulsory. Gabrielsen (1994) notes that conscription was only used exceptionally.…”

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Measuring institutional quality in ancient Athens

Bergh

Lyttkens

2014

Journal of Institutional Economics

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We use the Economic Freedom Index to characterise the institutions of the Athenian city-state in the fourth century BCE. It has been shown that ancient Greece witnessed improved living conditions for an extended period of time. Athens in the fourth century appears to have fared particularly well. We find that economic freedom in ancient Athens is on level with the highest ranked modern economies such as Hong Kong and Singapore. With the exception of the position of women and slaves, Athens scores high in almost every dimension of economic freedom. Trade is probably highly important even by current standards. As studies of contemporary societies suggest that institutional quality is probably an important determinant of economic growth, it may also have been one factor in the relative material success of the Athenians.JEL classification: N43, N93; O17, P52

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“…review essay on this material -Carney 1991: 179-89. On fourth-century Greek history -Hornblower 1983;and Buckler 2003. over others). 6 This was unsurprising for a man, 'who had made himself the greatest of the kings in Europe in his time ' (Diod.…”

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Tales of Philip II under the Roman Empire: aspects of monarchy and leadership in the Anecdotes, Apophthegmata, and Exempla of Philip II

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The Greek World 479-323 BC

Cited by 39 publications

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“As on a Darkling Plain”: Practitioners, Publics, Propagandists, and Ancient Historiography

“As on a Darkling Plain”: Practitioners, Publics, Propagandists, and Ancient Historiography

Measuring institutional quality in ancient Athens

Tales of Philip II under the Roman Empire: aspects of monarchy and leadership in the Anecdotes, Apophthegmata, and Exempla of Philip II

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