Bibliography
Here is a list of publications related to the topic of citizenship in the ancient Greek world or to specific issues connected to it.
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- Acton P., Poiesis. Manufacturing in Classical Athens, Oxford 2014
- Adak M., Metöken als Wohltäter Athens. Untersuchungen zum sozialen Austausch zwischen ortsansässigen Fremden und der Bürgergemeinde in klassischer und hellenistischer Zeit (ca. 500-150 v. Chr.), München 2003
- Ampolo C., Il sistema della polis. Elementi costitutivi della civiltà greca, in S. Settis (ed.), I Greci. Storia, cultura, arte, società, II.1: Formazione, Torino 1996, 297-342
- Asheri D., Distribuzioni di terre nell’antica Grecia, Torino 1966
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- Bakewell, G. Lysias 12 and Lysias 31: Metics and Athenian Citizenship in the Aftermath of the Thirty, GRBS 40 (1999) 5-22
- Bates C.A., Jr., The Centrality of Politeia for Aristotle’s Politics: Aristotle’s Continuing Significance for Social and Political Science, Social Science Information 53, 2014, 139-159
- Bearzot C., Studi su Isocrate (1980-2020), Milano 2020
- Beck H., “The Laws of the Fathers” versus “The Laws of the League”: Xenophon on Federalism, Classical Philology 96.4, 2001, 355-375
- Beck H., Ethnic identity and integration in Boeotia: the evidence of the inscriptions (6th and 5th centuries BC), in N. Papazarkadas (ed.), The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia: New Finds, New Prospects, Leiden – Boston, 2014, 19-44
- Beck H. – Funke P. (eds.), Federalism in Greek antiquity, Cambridge 2015
- Beck H. – Buraselis K. – McAuley A. (eds.), Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism, Stuttgart, 2019
- Bertelli L., Il cittadino in Aristotele: criteri di inclusione/esclusione, in F. de Luise (ed.), Cittadinanza. Inclusi ed esclusi tra gli antichi e i moderni, Trento 2018, 125-163
- Blok J.H., Perikles’ Citizenship Law: A New Perspective, Historia 58.2, 2009, 141-170
- Blok J.H., Citizenship, the Citizen Body, and its Assemblies, in H. Beck (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Greek Government, Chichester 2013, 159-175
- Blok J.H., Citizenship in Classical Athens, Cambridge 2017
- Boegehold A., Perikles’ citizenship law of 451/0 B.C., in A.L. Boegehold, A.C. Scafuro (eds.), Athenian identity and civic ideology, Baltimore 1994, 57-66
- Blok J., Retracing Steps. Finding Ways into Archaic Greek Citizenship, in A. Duplouy, R. Brock (eds.), Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece, Oxford 2018, 79-101
- Blok J., The Challenge of Representative Government, Ancient and Modern, in C. Riedweg – R. Schmid – A.V. Walser (eds.), Demokratie und Populismus in der griechischen Antike und heute, Stuttgart, 2024, 55-63
- Boffo L. – Faraguna M., Le poleis e i loro archivi. Studi su pratiche documentarie, istituzioni, società nell’antichità greca, Trieste 2021
- Bouchet, Chr., Isocrate l’Athénien ou la belle hégémonie, Paris 2014
- Bueno M., Aristotle and the Citizen, Tópicos. Revista de Filosofía 54, 2018, 11-45
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- Cecchet L., Γῆς ἀναδασμός: A Real Issue in the Archaic and Classical Poleis?, in M.T. Zambianchi (ed.), Ricordo di Dino Ambaglio, Como 2009, 185-198
- Cecchet A. – Busetto L. (eds.), Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World. Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic Period to AD 212, Leiden-Boston 2017
- Collins S.D., Aristotle and the Rediscovery of Citizenship, Cambridge 2006
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- Davies J.K., The Concept of the ‘Citizen’, in S. Cataldi (ed.), Poleis e politeiai. Esperienze politiche, tradizioni letterarie, progetti costituzionali, Alessandria 2004, 19-30
- Deene, M. Naturalized citizens and social mobility in classical Athens: the case of Apollodorus, Greece & Rome 58 (2011), 159–175
- Deene, M. Seeking for honour(s)? The exploitation of philotimia and citizen benefactors in classical Athens, Revue belge de philologie et d’histoire 91.1 (2013), 69-87
- Deene, M. Let’s work together! Economic cooperation, social capital, and chances of social mobility in classical Athens, Greece & Rome 61 (2014), 152–173
- Dmitriev S., The Birth of Athenian Community. From Solon to Kleisthenes, London, New York 2018
- Dmitriev, S. Citizenship for sale? Grants of politeia for money: a reappraisal, Journal of Ancient History 11.1 (2023), 49–75
- Duplouy A., Pathways to Archaic Citizenship, in A. Duplouy, R. Brock (eds.), Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece, Oxford 2018,1-49
- Duplouy A. – Brock R. (eds.), Defining Citizenship in Archaic Greece, Oxford 2018
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- Erdas D., I nautodikai. Note su una magistratura ateniese tra cause di xenia e giurisdizione sugli emporoi, Dike 24, 2021, 33-62 <https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/Dike/article/view/18603>
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- Falco G., Polites/politis, astos, metoikos: il lessico della cittadinanza nel teatro ateniese di V secolo a. C., Hormos 16, 2024, 133-200.
- Falco G., Voices across boundaries: Citizenship, Language and Ethnicity in Classical Athens and Hellenistic-Roman Delos, currently under review at Erga-Logoi.
- Fantasia U., Carusi C., Revisioni e controlli delle liste dei cittadini: la diapsephisis ateniese del 346/5 a.C., in S. Cataldi (ed.), Poleis e politeiai. Esperienze politiche, tradizioni letterarie, progetti costituzionali, Alessandria 2004, 217-227
- Faraguna M., Citizen Registers in Archaic Greece: The Evidence Reconsidered, in A. Matthaiou, N. Papazarkadas (eds.), AXON. Studies in Honor of Ronald S. Stroud, II, Athenai 2015, 649-667
- Faraguna M., Un filosofo al potere? Demetrio Falereo tra democrazia e tirannide, MedAnt 19, 2016, 35-63
- Faraguna M. – S. Segenni (eds.), Forme e modalità di gestione amministrativa nel mondo greco e romano: terra, cave, miniere, Milano 2020
- Faraguna M., Citizenship in the Greek polis: an institutional approach, in M. Canevaro, M. Barbato, A. Esu (eds.), New Approaches to Greek Istitutional History, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, c.d.s. 2023
- Farenga V., Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece: Individuals Performing Justice and the Law, Cambridge 2006
- Farioli M., Les liaisons dangereuses. Postmodernismo e femminismo mainstream in alcune tendenze attuali della storia antica, IncAnt 18, 2020, 51-78
- Fawcett, P. “When I Squeeze You with Eisphorai”: Taxes and Tax Policy in Classical Athens, Hesperia 85.1 (2016), 153-199
- Filonik J., A Civic Style: The Use of μετέχειν Metaphors in Athenian Oratory, Trends in Classics 14.2, 2022, 255-270
- Filonik J., Sharing in the Polis. Conceptualizing Classical Greek Citizenship, in J. Filonik, Chr. Plastow, R. Zelnick-Abramovitz (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity. Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean, London 2023, 264-280
- Filonik J., Plastow C., Zelnick-Abramovitz R. (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean, London 2023
- Fioretos K.O., Falleti T.G., Sheingate A.D. (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Historical Institutionalism, Oxford 2016
- Forster F.R., Die Polis im Wandel: Ehrendekrete fur eigene Burger im Kontext der hellenistischen Polisgesellschaft, Göttingen 2018
- Frank T., Representative government in the ancient polities, The Classical Journal 14.9, 1919, 533-549
- Fröhlich P., La citoyenneté grecque entre Aristote et les modernes, CCG 27, 2016, 91-136
- Fröhlich P. – Müller Chr. (eds.), Citoyenneté et participation à la basse époque hellénistique, Paris-Genève 2005
- Futo Kennedy, R. Immigrant Women in Athens. Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City, New York 2014
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- Gallo L., I cittadini «passivi» nelle poleis greche, in S. Cataldi (ed.), Poleis e politeiai. Esperienze politiche, tradizioni letterarie, progetti costituzionali, Alessandria 2004, 217-227
- Gauthier, P. Symbola: les étrangers et la justice dans les cités grecques, Nancy 1972
- Gauthier, P. Les ξένοι dans les textes athéniens de la seconde moitié du Ve s. av. J.-C., Revue des Études Grecques 84 (1971), 44-79
- Giangiulio M., Looking for Citizenship in Archaic Greece. Methodological and Historical Problems, in L. Cecchet, A. Busetto (eds.), Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World. Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic Period to A.D. 212, Leiden-Boston 2017, 33-49
- Gagarin M., Women in Athenian courts, Dike 1, 1998, 39-52
- Gray B., From Exile of Citizens to Deportation of Non-citizens: Ancient Greece as a Mirror to Illuminate a Modern Transition, Citizenship Studies 15.5, 2011, 565-582
- Gray B., Citizenship as Barrier and Opportunity for Ancient Greek and Modern Refugees, Humanities 7.3, 2018, 72, https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/7/3/72
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- Heller A., Pont A.-V. (eds), Patrie d’origine et patries électives. Les citoyennetés multiples dans le monde grec d’époque romaine, Bordeaux 2012
- Henry, A.S. Honours and Privileges in Athenian Decrees, Hildesheim 1983
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- K. Kapparis, Immigration and Citizenchip Procedures in Athenian Law, RIDA, s. 3, 52, 2005, 71-113
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- Larsen J.A.O., Representative Government in Greek and Roman History, Berkeley – Los Angeles 1976
- Larsen J.A.O., Greek Federal States: Their Institutions and History, Oxford 1968
- Lasagni C., Politeia in Greek Federal States, in L. Cecchet – A. Busetto (eds.), Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World. Aspects of Citizenship from the Archaic Period to AD 212, Leiden-Boston, 2017, 78-109
- Lasagni C., Le realtà locali nel mondo greco. Ricerche su poleis ed ethne della Grecia occidentale, Alessandria 2019
- Leão, D., Rhodes, P.J., The Laws of Solon. A New Edition with Introduction, Translation and Commentary, London 2015
- Lévy É., Cité et citoyen dans la Politique d’Aristote, Ktèma 5, 1980, 223-248
- Liddel P., Decrees of Fourth-Century Athens (403/2-322/1 BC), I-II, Cambridge 2020
- Luppa, F. Die ansässigen Fremden im klassischen Athen, Stuttgart 2023
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- Mackil E., Property Claims and State Formation in the Archaic Greek World, in C. Ando, S. Richardson (eds.), Ancient States and Infrastructural Power. Europe, Asia and America, Philadelphia 2017, 63-90
- Mackil, Property Security and its Limits in Classical Greece, in M. Canevaro, A. Erskine, B. Gray, J. Ober (eds.), Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science, Edinburgh 2018, 315-343
- Meyer, E.A. Metics and the Athenian Phialai Inscriptions, Stuttgart 2010
- Miller J., Epigraphical Evidence for Citizenship in Third-Century B.C. Athens, ZPE 191, 2014, pp. 141-150
- Moggi M., L. Bertelli (eds.), Aristotele, la Politica, Libri 1-8, Roma 2011-2022
- Müller Ch., De l’époque classique à l’époque hellénistique: la citoyenneté des Grecs, une citoyenneté en mutation? Réflexions sur la question de l’appartenance multiple, Studi ellenistici 29, 2015, 355-369
- Müller Ch., How (Not) to Be a Citizen: Subordination and Participation of the Perioikoi in Hellenistic Sparta (and Elsewhere), in V. Pirenne-Delforge, M. Weçowski (eds.), Politeia and Koinonia. Studies in Ancient Greek History in Honour of Josine Blok, Leiden-Boston 2023, 65-88
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- Niku, M. Aspects of the Taxation of Foreign Residents in Hellenistic Athens, Arctos 36 (2002), 80–85
- Niku, M. When and why did the Athenian metoikia system disappear?, Arctos 38 (2004), 75–93
- Niku M., The Official Status of the Foreign Residents in Athens, 322-120 B.C., Helsinki 2007
- Niku, M., Spheres of Interaction and Cooperation between Citizens and Foreigners in the Religious Life of Hellenistic Athens, in S. Katajala-Peltomaa & V. Vuolanto (eds.), Religious Participation in Ancient and Medieval Societies, Rome 2013, 51–64
O
- Oliver G.J., Citizenship: inscribed honours for individuals in Classical and Hellenistic Athens, in J.-Ch. Couvenhes, S. Milanezi (eds.), Individus, groupes et politique à Athènes de Solon à Mithridate, Tours 2007, 273-292 <http://books.openedition.org/pufr/2899>.
- Osborne, M.J. Naturalization in Athens, Brussels 1981-1983
- Ostwald M., Shares and rights: ‘citizenship’ Greek style and American style, in J. Ober – C. Hedrick (eds.), Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern, Princeton, 1996, 49-61
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- Pecirka J., The formula for the grant of enktesis in Attic inscriptions, Prague 1966
- Pirenne-Delforge V. – Węcowski M., Politeia and Koinōnia. Studies in Ancient Greek History in Honour of Josine Blok, Leiden-Boston 2023
- Poddighe E., Nel segno di Antipatro. L’eclissi della democrazia ateniese dal 323/2 al 319/8 a.C., Roma 2002.
- Poddighe E., Aristotele, Atene e le metamorfosi dell’idea democratica: da Solone a Pericle (594-451 a.C.), Roma 2014.
- Poddighe E., Aristotele e il synoran. La visione globale tra politica e storia, tra retorica e diritto, Milano 2020.
- Poddighe E., Politica e democrazia nella riflessione di Aristotele sulla cittadinanza. Il contributo di Leo Strauss”, in M. García Sánchez, L. Sancho Rocher (eds.), La democracia griega y sus intérpretes in la tradición occidental, Madrid 2023, 471-504.
- Poddighe E., A Reading on Xenophon’s Hiero (2.8-16; 6.7-10): Citizens and War in the Tyrant’s Discourse, in M. Garcia Sanchez (ed.), Jenofonte, Historiador y Filósofo, Monografico I. Araucaria, 57 (2024), 245-267 <https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/araucaria>.
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- Poddighe, E. “Alessandro, Aristotele e l’unità dell’impero: per uno stato dell’arte fra ricezione di Alessandro e critica aristotelica” in F. Piccioni, E. Poddighe, T. Pontillo (eds.), La ricezione dell’ultimo Alessandro. Mirabilia e violenza al di qua e al di là dell’Indo, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, De Gruyter, Berlin, Boston 2024, 3-25.
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- Rhodes P.J., Bastards as Athenian Citizens, The Classical Quarterly 28.1, 1978, 89-92
- Rhodes P.J., Civic Ideology and Citizenship, in R.K. Balot (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought, Malden (Mass.), 2009, 57-69
- Rhodes P.J., Greek Citizenship, in J. Filonik – C. Plastow – R. Zelnick-Abramovitz (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity. Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean, London, 2023, 36-47
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- Rizakis A.D., L’expérience de l’organisation inter civique et supra civique dans la Confédération achéenne, in M. Lombardo (ed.), Forme sovrapoleiche e interpoleiche di organizzazione nel mondo greco antico: atti del Convegno Internazionale, Lecce, 17-20 Settembre 2008, Galatina, 2008, 274-292
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- Rizakis A.D., Achaians and Lykians: A Comparison of Federal Institutions, in H. Beck – K. Buraselis – A. McAuley (eds.), Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism, Stuttgart, 2019, 219-242
- Rocchi L., Identity, Status, and ‘dishonour’: Was Atimia Relevant only to Citizens?, in J. Filonik – C. Plastow – R. Zelnick-Abramovitz (eds.), Citizenship in Antiquity. Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean, London, 2023, 327-340
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- Saba S., Isopoliteia in Hellenistic Times, Leiden-Boston 2020
- Savalli-Lestrade I., Collections de citoyennetés et internationalisation des élites civiques dans l’Asie Mineure hellénistique, in A. Heller – A.-V. Pont (eds.), Patrie d’origine et patries électives: les citoyennetés multiples dans le monde grec d’époque romaine. Actes du colloque international de Tours, 6-7 novembre 2009, Bordeaux, 2012, 39-59.
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- Taylor C., Vlassopoulos K. (eds.), Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World, Oxford 2015
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- Valente, M. L’imposta del metoikion ad Atene: uno strumento per il controllo dell’immigrazione?, Historika 11 (2021), 95–114
- Vlassopoulos K., Free Spaces: Identity, Experience, and Democracy, CQ 57, 2007, 33-52
- Vlassopoulos K., Slavery, Freedom and Citizenship in Classical Athens: beyond a Legalistic Approach, European Review of History 16, 2009, 347-364
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- Whitehead D., The Ideology of the Athenian Metic, Cambridge 1977
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- Whitehead D., Norms of Citizenship in Ancient Greece,in A. Molho, K. Raaflaub, J. Emlen (eds.), City States in Classical Antiquity and Medieval Italy, Stuttgart 1991, 135-154
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