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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2025

Vincent Azoulay  and
Paulin Ismard
Translated by
Lorna Coing
Preface by
Robin Osborne
Vincent Azoulay
Affiliation:
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
Paulin Ismard
Affiliation:
Université d'Aix-Marseille
Lorna Coing
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge
Robin Osborne
Affiliation:
University of Cambridge

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Athens, 403 BC
A Democracy in Crisis?
 , pp. ix - xi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2025

Contents

  1. List of Figures

  2. Foreword

  3. Acknowledgments

  4. Chronology

  5. Introduction: Toward a Choral History

    1. On the Twelfth Day of Boedromion

    2. The City in Chorus(es)

    3. The Chorus, an ‘Absolute Metaphor’

    4. At the Heart of Civic Life

    5. Chorus and Social Hierarchies

    6. The Chorus Put to the Test of Civil War

    7. A Choral History: Contemporary Theorization

    8. Plurality, Polyphony, Dissonance

    9. Dividing Athenian Society Differently

    10. Rethinking Collectives through the Chorus’ Lens

  6. 1Critias and the Oligarchs

    1. Incomparable Critias?

    2. The Untraceable Leader

    3. The Banality of Evil

    4. Generation War

    5. The Fracture of Exile

    6. Critias, Champion of Oligarchic Radicality

    7. A Musical Politics

    8. Deadly Friendships

    9. A Political Praise of Fear

    10. The Unified Chorus: A Joyful Purification

    11. The Fractured Chorus: Extending the Domain of Fear

    12. The Frightened Chorus: The Terrorist Climax

    13. After the Thirty

  7. 2Thrasybulus and the Democratic Resistance

    1. An Illustrious Unknown

    2. Samos, 411: A Political Experiment

    3. Fortunes and Misfortunes of a Condottiere

    4. The Hundred Heroes of Phyle

    5. The Enlarged Chorus of Piraeus

    6. To the Slaves: The Promise of Thrasybulus

    7. The City and Its Borders: Back to Order

  8. 3Archinus or the Victory of the ?Moderates?

    1. Archinus’ Reconciled Athens

    2. The Half-Chorus of the Oligarchs Rallied to Democracy

    3. The Half-Chorus of the ‘Moderate’ Democrats

    4. An Illusory Reconciliation

    5. History Rewritten: The Winner’s Version

  9. 4Socrates and the Voices of Neutrality

    1. Negative Neutrality: In Exile

    2. Positive Neutrality: In the City

    3. Radical Neutrality: Elusive Socrates

    4. The Divided City and Its Backstage

  10. 5Lysimache: The Priestess of Athena and Her Doubles

    1. The Guardian of an Immutable Ritual?

    2. The Priestess on Stage

    3. Female Chorality: The Servants of Athena

    4. Myrrhine, Athena’s Other Priestess

    5. Syeris, the Subordinate Double of Lysimache

    6. ‘All of the Lysimachai!’

    7. Lysimache’s Dream: The Unacknowledged Community

  11. 6Eutherus and the Precarious Workers

    1. A Scene of Rural Life: The Olive Tree of Discord

    2. Elusive Men: Free Employees

    3. The Intermittent Chorus

    4. The Impossible Union of Wage Workers

    5. Friendship as a Mask for Subjection

  12. 7Hegeso or the Family Torn Asunder

    1. The Domestic Chorus: The Oikos of Ischomachus

    2. A Disputed Heritage

    3. A Political Trial?

    4. The City of the Dead: The Blended Family

    5. Hegeso, the Seated Woman

  13. 8Gerys and the World of the Merchant Agora

    1. Slave Names

    2. An Exemplary Greengrocer

    3. If Dying Is a Beautiful Thing …

    4. Men and Women of the Agora

    5. The Thracian Chorus of Mounychia

  14. 9Nicomachus and the Servants of the City

    1. Aeschylus in the Underworld: Chorus and Anti-Chorus

    2. Nicomachus, Scribe and Administrator

    3. Politics and Its Borders

    4. A Chorus of Bureaucrats

    5. Beyond Freedom and Slavery

  15. 10Lysias, a Multifaceted Man

    1. An Uncertain Date of Birth

    2. A Model Metic?

    3. An Equivocal Democrat

    4. The Paradoxes of Logography

    5. A Family Epic

    6. A Very Small and Rich World

    7. Shared Suffering: A Chorus of Exiles?

    8. The Discreet Charm of the Oligarchy

    9. The Civil War or the Great Simplification

  16. Conclusion: The City in Chorus

    1. The Philosophical Fantasy

    2. Democratic Polyphony

    3. Aristotle, or the Choral City

    4. Back to the Event

    5. Of Stasis as Arrythmia

    6. Extension of the Domain of Civil War?

    7. A Change of Pace? Athens after 403

    8. Aristion’s Last Dance

  17. Bibliography

  18. Index

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