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The Project

The concept of citizenship (politeia) is one of the notions underlying political institutions and society in the Greek world which, also owing to the stimuli of contemporary reality, has attracted sustained scholarly interest in recent years. Is citizenship defined in purely legalistic terms as the enjoyment of political rights, as Aristotle argued in Politics, book 3? Or does it entail the sharing of a system of values that is more complex and effectively reduces, if not minimizes, the importance of merely legal barriers?

Databases

Texts and documents

Here you will find a selection of literary, epigraphic, papyrological, and numismatic sources related to citizenship in the Greek world.

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The lexicon of citizenship

Here you will find the entries related to the vocabulary of citizenship in Greek literary, epigraphic, and papyrological sources.

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Bibliography

Here you will find a collection of publications related to the topic of citizenship in the ancient Greek world, as well as to specific issues connected to it.

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Conferences, Workshops, Training Activities

Training activities, Training activities

The Greeks, the polis, and the idea of citizenship

Michele Faraguna History in the Classroom: Learning Pathways for the First Two Years of Upper Secondary School Università degli studi di Parma

Conference

‘Sharing in the polis’. Citizenship and forms of civic participation in the Greek world

International conference PRIN 2020 – ‘Sharing in the community’: citizenship and society in the Greek world (VII-II century BC) – 16–18 June 2025 Aula 113 – Via Festa del Perdono,...

Conference

Presentation of the PRIN project Land and Citizenship at the Departmental Research Conference, University of Milan

Michele Faraguna, Donatella Erdas ‘Sharing in the community’: citizenship and society in the Greek world (VII-II century BC): prospettive e risultati della ricerca Third Research Day – Department of Literary,...