Divided Power in Ancient Greece
Decision-Making and Institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic Polis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 14 March 2024
- ISBN 9780198883951
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages304 pages
- Size 240x160x20 mm
- Weight 574 g
- Language English 545
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Short description:
This book examines the division of power in the Ancient Greek city-states of the Classical and Hellenistic periods, revealing Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control.
MoreLong description:
How did the division of power work in Ancient Greece? This groundbreaking study reveals Ancient Greek political decision-making to be a multi-layered system of delegation and legal control. Scholars have previously examined the nature and locus of sovereignty in the Classical and Hellenistic Greek poleis through institutional, rhetorical, or ideological approaches. By concentrating on the institutional design of decree-making, Alberto Esu moves beyond unitary and hierarchical understandings of sovereignty; he presents a new view of power as divided and horizontally organized between different decision-making institutions, each one with its own discourse and expertise.
Greek political decision-making is thus seen through a new institutionalist perspective that rediscovers the normative importance of political institutions as factors shaping the collective behaviour of decision-makers. Part I explores how deliberative power in decree-making was delegated in Classical Athens, Mytilene, and Hellenistic Megalopolis. Part II examines procedures of legal control and judicial review in the Classical and Hellenistic periods. Divided power proves to be a feature of both democratic and non-democratic societies across the Ancient Greek world; Esu's analysis of its institutional manifestation transforms our understanding of political life--its discourses and norms--in the Ancient Greek city-states.
Esu focuses on two main issues of divided power: on the one hand, the delegation of power between various decision-making bodies; and, on the other, the institutions of legal control that checked the outcomes of decision-making bodies. Given the nature of the evidence, Esu relies to a significant extent on classical Athens; however, the value of the book is that it uses the evidence not in order to write an Athenocentric account, but to extend the approach to other classical andHellenistic Greek communities which offer relevant evidence: I found particularly illuminating the detailed discussions of Mytilene, Megalopolis, and Sparta.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Part I: Divided Power and Delegation
Divided Power in Athenian Decree-Making
Divided Power in Mytilene and Megalopolis: Delegation Practice beyond Athens
Part II: Divided Power and Control of Legality
Divided Power and Eunomia: Deliberative Procedures in Ancient Sparta
Divided Power in the Athenian Assembly: Adeia and Fifth-Century Deliberative Ideology
Divided Power and Judicial Review: Graph? Paranom?n in the Decision-Making of the Greek Poleis
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
