Stasis : the nature, frequency, and intensity of political violence in ancient Greece
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the nature, frequency, and intensity of violent political conflict (stasis) in the c. 1,100 city-states (poleis) inhabited by the ancient Greeks between 500 and 301 BCE. Against existing scholarship, which conflates stasis with modern analogs like civil war, revolution, and internal war, I highlight the many ways in which stasis was a historically distinctive concept. I show that most poleis experienced stasis at an average rate of more than once per decade and that most staseis produced fewer than a dozen casualties. I also introduce new methods and new tools to overcome three of the most significant obstacles that face attempts to study Greek history on a panhellenic scale: the scarcity, ambiguity, and deep biases of the evidentiary record.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2018; ©2018 |
| Publication date | 2018; 2018 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Arcenas, Scott Lawin |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Morris, Ian, 1960- |
| Thesis advisor | Scheidel, Walter, 1966- |
| Degree committee member | Morris, Ian, 1960- |
| Degree committee member | Scheidel, Walter, 1966- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Scott Lawin Arcenas. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2018. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2018 by Scott Lawin Arcenas
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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