The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective 9781350289208

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Автор: Richard A. Billows
Название: The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective
ISBN: 9781350289208
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
Классификация:

История Древнего мира: до 500 гг. н.э.

Военная история

Политическая система: демократия

Политэкономия

ISBN-10: 1350289205
Обложка/Формат: Hardback
Страницы: 288
Вес: 0.44 кг.
Дата издания: 12.01.2023
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 4 bw illus
Размер: 157 x 235 x 12
Читательская аудитория: Professional & vocational
Ключевые слова: Ancient history: to c 500 CE,Military history,Political economy,Political structures: democracy, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece,LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical,POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy,SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: This book presents a powerful new argument for how and why the Greek city-states, including their distinctive society and culture, came to be - and why they had the highly unusual and influential form they took. After reviewing early city-state formation, and the economic underpinnings of city-state society, three key chapters examine the way the Greeks developed their unique society. The spear, scroll and pebble encapsulate the books core ideas. The Spear: city-state Greeks developed a citizen-militia military system that gave relatively equal importance to each citizen-warrior, thereby emboldening the citizen-warriors to demand political rights. The Pebble: the resultant growth of collective political systems of oligarchy and democracy led to thousands of citizens forming the sovereign element of the state; they made political decisions through communal debate and voting. The Scroll: in order for such systems to function, a shared information base had to be created, and this was done by setting up public notices of laws, proposed policies, public meeting agendas, and a host of other information. To access this information, these military and political citizens had to be able to read. Billows examines the spread of schools and literacy throughout the Greek world, showing that the male city-state Greeks formed the worlds first-known mass literate society. He concludes by showing that it was the mass-literate nature of the Greek city-state society that explains the remarkable and influential culture the classical Greeks produced.

The Spear, the Scroll, and the Pebble: How the Greek City-State Developed as a Male Warrior-Citizen Collective, Richard A. Billows