Oxford University Press
Drawing Lots : From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece
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9780197753477
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9780197753477
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$165.39
Drawing Lots : From Egalitarianism to Democracy in Ancient Greece
$165.39
This book offers the first comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central, ubiquitous institution of ancient Greek society. Led by an egalitarian mindset, Greeks drew lots as a matter of course to distribute inheritance, booty, sacrificial meat, and lands, to mix groups, select individuals, and set turns. Lot-oracles were used for divination; otherwise, the gods guarded the justice of the procedure but rarely determined the outcome. When drawing lots was gradually applied to polis governance, classical Athens made sortition the basis of the first democracy in human history. A Greek innovation, drawing lots for governance inspires new democratic politics today.
| Author: Irad Malkin, Professor Emeritus of Ancient Greek History Irad Malkin, Josine Blok, Professor Emeritus of Ancient History and Classical Civilization Josine Blok |
| Publisher: Oxford University Press |
| Publication Date: May 21, 2024 |
| Number of Pages: 537 pages |
| Language: English |
| Binding: Hardcover |
| ISBN-10: 0197753477 |
| ISBN-13: 9780197753477 |
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