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Subject(s)

• Democracy and architecture—Greece—Athens [Browse]
• Architecture and society—Greece—Athens—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Architecture—Greece—Athens [Browse]
• Athens (Greece)—Politics and government [Browse]
• Athens (Greece)—Buildings, structures, etc [Browse]

Series

Oxford scholarship online. [More in this series]

Summary note

What does it look like to transform your political system from a tyranny to a democracy? This book takes a deep dive into the built environment of ancient Athens during a period of transition in order to answer this question, illuminating the close relationship between politics and architecture.

Notes

Previously issued in print: 2020.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Target audience

Specialized.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 20, 2021).

Contents

• The Akropolis: Monuments and Military Dominance
• The Agora: Form, Function, and Ideology
• The Astu: The Architectural Matrix of the Polis
• The Demes: Delineation and Interconnectivity
• Buildings and Democracy
• Appendix I: Building Chronology in Athens and Attika, 508/7 - 480/79 B.C.E.
• Appendix II: IG I3 4B, The Hekatompedon Decree: Text, Translation, and Brief Commentary
• Appendix III: Dating the Old Bouleuterion and Stoa Basileios.

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ISBN

• 0-19-008360-3
• 0-19-008358-1
• 0-19-008359-X

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