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POLIS & POLITICS
Studies in Ancient Greek History
Presented to Mogens Herman Hansen
on his Sixtieth Birthday, August 20, 2000
Edited by
Pernille Flensted-Fensen
Thomas Heine Nielsen
Lene Rubinstein
MUSEUM TUSCULANUM PRESS
UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN
2000
Polis & Politics
© Museum Tusculanum Press 2000
Cover design by Henrik Maribo
Composition by Ole Klitgaard
Printed in Denmark by AKA Print, Aarhus
ISBN 87 7289 628 0
Cover: The abduction of Helen, after a drawing by Mr. Gillieron, published by S.A.
Koumanoudis in Ephemeris Archaiologike 1884 [1885] figs. 5 Aa & Bb, of the relief on
a late-third-century BC Megarian bowl from Tanagra (Athens, National Museum
2104). On the back cover: Theseus and Peirithoos taking Helen by force toward the city
of Korinth. On the front cover: Helen, now more docile, travelling with Theseus and
Peirithoos from the city of Korinth to the city of Athens; both cities are shown with
freestanding circuit wall rendered in perspective with city buildings rising above. See
further K. Weitzmann, Ancient Book Illumination (Cambridge, Mass. 1959) 43 & fig.
48; L. Kahil, LIMC 4 (s.v. Helene, no. 47) 509-10, 561.
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Contents
Acknowledgements ....................................,...
Introductory Flourish
JOHN CROOK ...........................................
The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
MOGENS HERMAN HANSEN ..............................
Conventions ...... 0.0... eee eee νιν eee eee ee een nn
PART ONE: THE POLIS
1. Physical Aspects of the Polis
A Decade of Demography. Recent Trends in the Study of Greek and
Roman Populations
MARK GOLDEN ............................,,,..,,......
Walls and the Polis
JOHN McK. CAMPI .....................,.,.,,,.,,4.4,8..
Gortyn. The First Seven Hundred Years (Part D)
PAULA PERLMAN ............................,..,..4....
Ergasteria in the Western Greek World
TOBIAS FISCHER-HANSEN ................................
Grenzfestungen und Verkehrsverbindungen in Nordost-Attika.
Zur Bedeutung der attisch-boiotischen Grenzregion um Dekeleia
PETER FUNKE .... 0.0... ccc ccc eee eee
The Frontier between Arkadia and Elis in Classical Antiquity
JAMES ROY 2.0.0ee .eee .eee e.te e ee
2. Community Aspects of the Polts
Ethnos, Phyle, Polis. Gemäßigt unorthodoxe Vermutungen
HANS-JOACHIM GEHRKE ................................ 159
The Synoikized Polis of Rhodes
VINCENT GABRIELSEN ................................. 177
Private Needs and Polis Acceptance. Purification at Selinous
WALTER BURKERT .......................,s.s....,. 207
An Altar for Herakles
MICHAEL H. JAMESON 1... 0.0002. ce 217
The Meaning of Polts in Thucydides 2.16.2. A Note
J.-E. SKYDSGAARD ............................,...,..... 229
What is Greek about the Pois?
OSWYN MURRAY ....0..0: .νιν .e.e .eee 0eee. ee.e t eas 231
PART TWO: POLITICS IN THE POLIS
1. Political Ideology: Democracy and Oligarchy
Zeus Eleutherios, Dionysos the Liberator, and the Athenian Tyrannicides.
Anachronistic Uses of Fifth-Century Political Concepts
KURT A. RAAFLAUB .................................... 249
Naked Democracy
STEPHEN G. MILLER ..............,...........,......,. 277
Argos. Une autre démocratie
MARCEL PIERART ......0.. Cocos ccc cee eee cece eee eee 297
Democracy, Kimon, and the Evolution of Athenian Naval Tactics
in the Fifth Century BC
BARRY 5. STRAUSS ...0.. 0... ccee e tee 315
Epigraphic Writing and the Democratic Restoration of 307
CHARLES W. HEDRICK ...,......,....................... 327
PAUL C. MILLETT .... 2... ce eee ee ee ses 337
The Old Oligarch (Pseudo-Xenophon’s Athenaion Politeia) and Thucydides.
A Fourth-Century Date for the Old Oligarch?
SIMON HORNBLOWER ........... ΝΕ ere 363
MARTIN OSTWALD .........................4.44444.4... 385
Boiotian Swine F(or)ever? The Boiotian Superstate 395 BC
PAUL CARTLEDGE ....................,........,......, 397
2. Practical Politics
“Juges des mains” dans les cités hellénistiques
PHILIPPE GAUTHIER ................................... 421
The Phantom Synedrion of the Boiotian Confederacy 378-335 BC
JOHN BUCKLER ........................................ 431
Back to Kleisthenic Chronology
E. BADIAN ......... siseεν νυν eens 447
Who Ran Democratic Athens?
P.J. RHODES .,..........................4.. eee. 465
EDWARD M. HARRIS ..................,................. 479
Philinos and the Athenian Archons of the 250s BC
MICHAEL J. OSBORNE ......................40ce..... 507
3. Athenian Law
Auswahl und Bewertung von dramatischen Aufführungen
in der athenischen Demokratie
WOLFGANG SCHULLER & MARTIN DREHER ............... 523
Living Freely as a Slave of the Law. Notes on Why Sokrates Lives in Athens
JOSIAH OBER .....................................,.... 541
Just Rituals. Why the Rigmarole of Fourth-Century Athenian Lawcourts?
VICTOR BERS .......................................... 553
The Length of Trials for Public Offences in Athens
DOUGLAS M. MacDOWELL .....,.,.........,..,,..,....., 563
The Basileus in Athenian Homicide Law
MICHAEL GAGARIN ......se.s ..ee. .ee eee 569
“Investigations and Reports” by the Areopagos Council
and Demosthenes’ Areopagos Decree
ROBERT W. WALLACE ....................,...,....4,..4 581
At Home. Lysias 1.23
ALAN L. BOEGEHOLD .................,....,,,.,,,,...... 597
The Location of Inscribed Laws in Fourth-Century Athens.
IG II? 244, on Rebuilding the Walls of Peiraieus (337/6 BC)
M.B. RICHARDSON ...............,.....,...,,.,..,..... 601
Bibliographia Hanseniana .................................. 617
Tabula Gratulatoria ...................................... 631
Acknowledgements
This volume is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on
his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant
contribution to the field of Greek history over the past thirty-two years. For
that reason the first person whom we, the editorial team, should like to include
in our acknowledgement is the honorand himself. As his former students and
present colleagues, all three of us have experienced Mogens’ approachability
and enthusiasm at close quarters. Even while still undergraduates we knew that
a knock at his door would never be resented, and that he would always be
ready to answer our questions, be they trivial or intricate. As a colleague and
director of the Copenhagen Polis Centre he is providing a stimulating working
environment, which is also full of personal warmth. One thing is certain:
working with Mogens on a daily basis may be a breath-taking experience at
umes; but it is never dull.
Above all, we should like to thank Mogens for being not only an inspiring
teacher, scholar and colleague but also a generous and faithful friend, who is
always there for those who need him. Thus we offer him this Festschnft as a
small token of our appreciation of his kindness and unfailing loyalty as a friend.
The themes of the present volume, Polis and Politics, represent Mogens’ two
main areas of research; and the wide range of questions addressed by the
individual chapters is in itself a testimony to the range of Mogens’ own scholar-
ship. Moreover, the number of participants in this project reflects Mogens’
qualities as a colleague who, throughout his career, has managed to combine
a high level of professional activity with an outstanding willingness to help and
to collaborate with others. Mogens’ own kindness and generosity is un-
doubtedly one important reason why we as editors have been met with a
similar warmth, kindness, and helpful attitude from all the persons who have
agreed to contribute to the Festschnft in his honour. All have been very
receptive to suggestions from our referees; and we should like to express our
gratitude to all the authors, whose collaborative spirit and patience have made
the job of editing this Festschrift a very pleasurable one.
Numerous people have offered us invaluable assistance at various stages of
the editorial process. We owe our greatest debt to Prof. T.V. Buttrey, Prof. P.J.
Rhodes and Dr. M.B. Richardson for their generous support, without which
this project could hardly have succeeded. We have also drawn extensively on
the expertise of the following scholars: Prof. A.L. Boegehold, Prof. J. Buckler,
Prof. J.M. Camp, Prof. C. Carey, Prof. P.A. Cartledge, Prof. J.A. Crook,
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forskningslektor, mag. art. T. Fischer-Hansen, cand. phil. R. Frederiksen, Dr.
V. Gabrielsen, Prof. M. Golden, Prof. C. Habicht, Prof. W.V. Harris, Prof. S.
Hornblower, Dr. S. Isager, Prof. R.P. Legon, Prof. D.M. MacDowell, Prof.
J. Ober, Dr. G.J. Oliver, Prof. R.C.T. Parker, Prof. K.A. Raaflaub, Dr. J. Roy,
Prof. M. Schofield and lektor, cand. mag. G. Tortzen. We thank them all for
their help.
We should also like to thank Museum Tusculanum Press, and in particular
Marianne Alenius and Ole Klitgaard. This volume would not have come into
being, had it not been for the enthusiasm that they have shown right from the
beginning. Finally, we gratefully acknowledge the financial assistance given by
the Krista & Viggo Petersens Fond; the Tuborg Foundation; and a Foundation
which has made an anonymous grant.
P.F.-].
T.H.N.
L.R.
