The Hellenistic Reception of Classical Athenian Democracy and Political Thought
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The Hellenistic reception of Classical Athenian democracy and politics is comprehensively explored in this collection of essays, which span historical, philosophical, and literary approaches to the various ways in which Classical Athenian civic life and thought were emphasized, challenged, blunted, or reshaped in the Hellenistic world.

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The Hellenistic reception of Classical Athenian democracy and politics is comprehensively explored in this collection of essays, which span historical, philosophical, and literary approaches to the various ways in which Classical Athenian civic life and thought were emphasized, challenged, blunted, or reshaped in the Hellenistic world.
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Mirko Canevaro is Reader in Greek History at the University of Edinburgh. Winner of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2015, in 2017 he was awarded the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Thomas Reid Medal for Excellence in Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in recognition of his research on Greek politics and law. Among his main publications are The Documents in the Attic Orators: Laws and Decrees in the Public Speeches of the Demosthenic Corpus (OUP, 2013) and Demostene, 'Contro Leptine'. Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento Storico (De Gruyter, 2016), and he is the co-editor with Edward M. Harris of The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Law. Benjamin Gray is Lecturer in Ancient History at Birkbeck, University of London, and is also currently an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Humboldt-Universität, Berlin. His research interests focus primarily on the ancient Greek city-state, particularly on the development of the Greek city and its ideals in the later Classical and post-Classical periods, and on ancient Greek political and ethical thought. He is the author of Stasis and Stability: Exile, the Polis, and Political Thought, c. 404-146 BC (OUP, 2015).