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by Marek Wecowski| 2018| 3.8| English

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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 Wecowski’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, Wecowski 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 unpredictablevotes by the citizenry. To support this hypothesis, Wecowski 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.

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Author:Marek Wecowski
Publication Year:2018
ISBN:9780198848202
Language:English
File Size:3.8
Format:PDF
Price:FREE
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