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Was the Athenian democracy anarchic, given to domestic violence and hence unstable, as claimed by some scholars, or was it a stable, well-ordered, social system, provided with in-built mechanisms to overcome crisis? Various aspects of this question, central to the understanding of the Athenian democracy, are investigated in this volume by a team of distinguished experts. The often surprising answers they provide should be of interest to specialists as well as laymen. The volume is dedicated to the memory of the late Professor Alexander Fuks.

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"Die sauber dokumentierten und anregenden Beiträge laden zum Weiterdenken ein [...]. Offenheit der Argumente und verlässliche Information machen die Stärke dieses lesenswerten Bandes aus." Hans Kloft Historische Zeitschrift 297, 2013/2

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Herman, Gabriel
Gabriel Herman is Professor of Ancient History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He obtained his Ph.D. at Cambridge under the supervision of the late Professor M. I. Finley, whose approaches he follows. He has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College, Cambridge; the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; and the Institute for the Research in the Humanities, Madison.

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