List of tables List of figures Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction 2. Ritualised friendship 3. Encounter and initiation 4. The circulation of resources 5. Obligations: heroic and civic Conclusion Appendixes Bibliography Indexes.

The idea of a purely civic nationalism has attracted Western scholars, most of whom rightly disdain the myths that sustain ethnonationalist theories of political community. Civic nationalism is particularly attractive to many Americans, whose peculiar national heritage encourages the delusion that their mutual association is based solely on consciously chosen principles. But this idea misrepresents political reality as surely as the ethnonationalist myths it is designed to combat. And propagating a new political myth is an especially inappropriate way of defending the legacy of Enlightenment liberalism from the dangers posed by the growth of nationalist political passions.

Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City

The myth of the civic nation

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Reconstructing Israel: Restoration Eschatology in Early Judaism and Paul's Gentile Mission

Roman society of the early empire presents a confusing and ambiguous image that we cannot easily situate in unidirectional accounts of European economic history. Clearly, public monuments in marble or other precious stone, military security, the urban food supply, roads, aqueducts and gladiatorial games testify to public consumption on a grand scale. On the other hand, the signs of poverty, misery, and destitution are no less obvious. Many inhabitants of the Roman empire only eked out a meager living, their skeletons grim testimonies to malnutrition and disease. Growth occurred because the wealth of the elite may have been a sign of effective exploitation of the poor. Roman National Income was indeed larger than that of any preindustrial European state. One of the requirements for an economy is to provide enough subsistence for its population to survive. The economic and social achievements of pre-industrial societies can be measured if standard of living of the masses exceeds bare subsistence levels.

The early Roman Empire: consumption

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1. Introduction 2. Athens and its legal system 3. Relevance in the popular courts 4. The homicide courts 5. Legal insecurity in Athens 6. Maritime cases 7. Conclusions.

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Ritualised Friendship and the Greek City

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Essence of diplomacy

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