The Hellenistic reception of Classical Athenian democracy and political thought
- Submitting institution
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Birkbeck College
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 1057
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- ISBN
- 9780198748472
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- January
- Year of publication
- 2018
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- 29 - Classics
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This volume originated in a conference in Edinburgh in 2013 on the same theme funded by the Classical Association of Scotland and also co-organised by Gray and Canevaro. Gray proposed the topic as a point of intersection between his and Canevaro’s research when they were both Chancellor’s Fellows in Classics at the University of Edinburgh. Gray was then responsible for 50% of the conference organisation, book proposal to OUP, soliciting of new chapters to enhance the range, writing of the introduction, and editing of the whole. The volume seeks to survey the complex and varied reception of Classical Athenian political thought and ideology across regions and genres in the Hellenistic world, with a focus on the co-opting and re-invention of democratic and anti-democratic ideals. Gray took particular responsibility for part II (containing 7 of the 13 chapters), on the later Hellenistic and early Roman period, which is the focus of his current research and was the subject of his Humboldt research fellowship in Berlin in 2016–2018, during which work on this volume was completed. Gray’s own substantial chapter (16,000 words) is central to part II and to the volume as a whole: it seeks to link together the reception of Classical Athens in Hellenistic epigraphy, historiography and philosophy, which are treated separately in other chapters. The co-written editors’ introduction (7000 words) also connects together the topics of the different chapters and explains the significance of the volume, as well as the avenues it opens for further research. We are asking that Gray’s individual article be assessed alongside his overall editorial work as well as the co-written introduction.
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