Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose
A Prisoner's Dilemma
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 5 December 2022
- ISBN 9780198848202
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages316 pages
- Size 224x143x23 mm
- Weight 494 g
- Language English 260
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Short description:
Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose analyses the ancient Greek practice of ostracism, through an examination of newly discovered archaeological evidence, a reconstruction of the legal procedure, and an account of its origins.
MoreLong description:
Ostracism is by far the most emblematic institution of ancient Athenian democracy. This volume offers a reassessment of recently found ostraka (or potsherds, on which the names of the 'candidates' for exile were inscribed by citizens) from several Greek cities outside Athens, a thorough reconstruction of the history and of the procedure of ostracism in Athens, and a comprehensive account of the political circumstances of the introduction of the law on ostracism by Cleisthenes in 508/507 BCE. Marek W--cowski's original study focuses not only on the final stage, the day of the vote, but on the entire operation and procedure of ostracisation. Tracing the logic of the political play in Athens between the opening and final stages of ostracism, W--cowski argues that Athenian ostracism was a mechanism devised to impose compromise on the main players in Athenian political life, thereby avoiding the punishment of political elites by exile of leading politicians resulting from unpredictable votes by the citizenry. To support this hypothesis, W--cowski turns to the theory of the 'evolution of cooperation' as formulated by the American mathematician and political scientist Robert Axelrod based on the iterated prisoner's dilemma in game theory, applied as a probabilistic analogy to the dynamics of Athenian political life under democracy.
This is an impressive work of great diligence and serious scholarship which will undoubtedly receive much fuller consideration in the appropriate journals. Notably, the evidence is well and fully presented, and the editor is to be commended upon his even handed assessment of the many disputed issues.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Key Issues in the Study of Athenian Ostracism
Ostracism before Ostracism?
Towards a Reconstruction of Ostracism in Athens: The Facts
Towards a Reconstruction of Ostracism in Athens: The Procedures
Part II: Towards an Interpretation of the Original Aims of Athenian Ostracism
The Historical Context of the Cleisthenian Law about Ostracism
The Prisoner's Dilemma: Ostracism and Competition among Athenian Political --lites
Epilogue and Conclusions: The Decline and Fall of Athenian Ostracism
