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Greek History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 September 2018

Kostas Vlassopoulos
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This is a particularly rich crop of books on Greek history. I commence with two important volumes on citizenship in archaic and classical Greece. Traditional narratives of Greek citizenship are based on three assumptions: that citizenship is a legal status primarily linked to political rights; that there was a trajectory from the primitive forms of archaic citizenship to the developed and institutionalized classical citizenship; and that the history of citizenship is closely linked to a wider Whig narrative of movement from the aristocratic politics of archaic Greece to classical Athenian democracy.

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Greece & Rome , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , October 2018 , pp. 253 - 259
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Copyright © The Classical Association 2018 

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