Politeia and Koinōnia

Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge is Professor at the Collège de France, Paris, after having been researcher at the FNRS (Belgium) and teaching at the Université de Liège. She has published many articles on ancient Greek religion and monographs, including L’Aphrodite grecque (1994), Retour à la source: Pausanias et la religion grecque (2008), Le Polythéisme grec à l’épreuve d’Hérodote (2020), and The Hera of Zeus: Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse (2022, with Gabriella Pironti).Marek Węcowski is associate Professor at the University of Warsaw. Educated in Warsaw and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales (Paris), former junior fellow at the Center of Hellenic Studies (Harvard University). He has published numerous articles on ancient Greek historiography, social and cultural history and several monographs, including The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet (2014) and Athenian Ostracism and its Original Purpose. A Prisoner’s Dilemma (2022).

• PrefaceNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Citizenship1 Was Sappho a Citizen? Social and Political Aspects of Sappho’s PoetryAndré Lardinois2 Early Greek Poetry, Social Mobility, and Solon’s Census ClassesMarek Węcowski3 Citizens as Drinkers? A Glimpse from the Countryside of the Archaic ArgolidGunnel Ekroth4 How (Not) to Be a Citizen: Subordination and Participation of the perioikoi in Hellenistic Sparta (and Elsewhere)Christel Müller5 Citizenship as the City’s Revealing Mirror: Comparative Considerations on the Content and the Historical Context of Citizenship in Athens and RomeKostas BuraselisPart 2 Historiography6 Herodotus, Thucydides, and the ‘Wheel of History’: Patterns of Historical InterpretationKurt A. Raaflaub7 Documenting the Past: Primary Sources in Fourth-century HistoriographyNino Luraghi8 Polis Patriotism and the Writing of Athenian History: Philochoros of AthensRosalind Thomas9 Athens and the French RevolutionOswyn MurrayPart 3 Participation: Politics and Beyond10 Lottery and Mixture in the Greek PolisIrad Malkin11 Elis and Pisatis: A Case Study in Political ParticipationHans-Joachim Gehrke12 Beyond the Limits of the Polis? Once Again on the Relations between Teos and AbderaMaurizio Giangiulio13 Tragedy, Tribes and the Civic Landscape in Classical AthensFrançois de Polignac14 Without DustThomas Heine Nielsen15 Women’s Work? Who Made Textiles in the Ancient Greek World?Lin Foxhall16 Xenokrateia the Athenian and her Tailor-made Divine TeamVinciane Pirenne-DelforgePart 4 Valedictory Lecture17 Sortition and DemocracyJosine Blokindex