Alternatives to Athens

• Focuses on a range of city states operating a variety of non-democratic political systems in the ancient Greek world
• Redresses the balance by showing that democratic Athens was not the model ancient Greek state

Readership: Scholars and students whose interests lie in the fields of ancient history, especially that of ancient Greece; the history of political thought; and political science.

Edited by Roger Brock, Lecturer in Classics, University of Leeds, and Stephen Hodkinson, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester

"... bibliographically updated in a sensitive way ... excellent programmatic and retrospective introduction." - The Journal of Classics Teaching

"... a cogent, wide-ranging introduction to the scope and scale of political expression in the ancient Greek world that will be warmly welcomed by ancient historians and classical scholars alike." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Roger Brock and Stephen Hodkinson: Alternatives to Athens, Introduction
1: Robin Lane Fox: Theognis - Alternative to Democracy
2: Hans Van Wees: Megara's Mafiosi
3: Nigel Spencer: Exchange and Stasis in Mytilene
4: Barbara Mitchell: Cyrene, Typical, or Atypical?
5: David Braund: Monarchy in Athenian Democracy
6: P. J. Rhodes: Oligarchies in Athens
7: N. K. Rutter: Syracusan Democracy
8: Andrew Lintott: Aristotle's Mixed Constitution
9: Kathryn Lomas: The Polis in Italy
10: Catherine Morgan: Cities and the Athenian Ethnos
11: Zosia Halina Archibald: Space Hierarchy and Community
12: J. K. Davies: The Molossian Ethnos, State, and Monarchy
13: Pierre Carlier: Homeric and Macedonian Kingship
14: Antony G. Keen: The 'Kings' of Achaemenid Lycia
15: W. G. Forrest: The Pre-polis Polis
16: Michael Arrush: Delphi and her External Relations
17: James Roy: Democracy in the Arcadian Confederacy
18: N. V. Sekunda: Federalism in West Crete