The Power of Individual and Community in Ancient Athens and Beyond

The pioneering ideas of John Kenyon Davies, one of the most significant Ancient Historians of the past half century, are celebrated in this collection. A distinguished cast of contributors, including Alain Bresson, Nick Fisher, Edward Harris, John Prag, Robin Osborne, and Sally Humphreys, focus on the nexus of socio-political and economic problems that have preoccupied Davies since the publication of his defining work Athenian Propertied Families in 1971. The scope of Davies’s interest has ranged widely in conceptual, chronological, and geographical terms, and the essays here reflect many of his long-term concerns with the writing of Greek history, its methods and materials.