On the political sociology of the imperial Greek city

A Zuiderhoek - Greek, roman, and Byzantine studies, 2008 - grbs.library.duke.edu
Greek, roman, and Byzantine studies, 2008grbs.library.duke.edu
… Given this state of things, simply to engage in a labelling exercise and describe these
political communities either as “oligarchic” (still the majority position among scholars, see
below) or “democratic” is to misrepresent the situation. To develop a deeper understanding of
imperial Greek civic politics, as far as the fragmentary evidence allows, we should rather focus
on relations between the various socio-political groupings within the poleis, and on the political
… Surely, as we saw, the imperial Greek cities had oligarchic elites, supported, to some …
Abstract
Elements of oligarchy, democracy, and hierarchy coexisted in the polis of Roman times, and the survival of the democratic element may reflect the prospering of small businessmen with their own political interests.
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