The Athenian Constitution
by Aristotle
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This is an up-to-date edition of the Athenian Constitution which was written in the school of Aristotle in the fourth century B.C., by a scholar who has been engaged with this text throughout his working life.Tags
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It has been a while now since I read Herodotus and Thucydides, and reading the Athenian Constitution was welcome opportunity to reengage with the stories of interesting Greek characters and political figures like Solon, Pisistratus, Cleisthene, Aristides, Pericles, Themistocles. The author of the Athenian Constitution (who was almost certainly not Aristotle himself, but likely a pupil) has a notable bias for the aristocratic agenda in his historical accounts, but also appears to draw from sources now lost to us.
Even more interesting is the author's account of the contemporary political bureaucracy of his day. There are not many other documents in the world that so explicitly discuss how an urban centre circa 325 BCE is organized: from show more who fixes the roads and repairs the temples, to who makes sure that the women who are hired for playing flutes at parties are not overpaid (i.e. price-fixing the market to keep the cost of entertainment low and women poor/ socially dependent). This is a glimpse into another world, where power, economics, and social stratification is both bizarrely different and sometimes unsettlingly familiar. show less
Even more interesting is the author's account of the contemporary political bureaucracy of his day. There are not many other documents in the world that so explicitly discuss how an urban centre circa 325 BCE is organized: from show more who fixes the roads and repairs the temples, to who makes sure that the women who are hired for playing flutes at parties are not overpaid (i.e. price-fixing the market to keep the cost of entertainment low and women poor/ socially dependent). This is a glimpse into another world, where power, economics, and social stratification is both bizarrely different and sometimes unsettlingly familiar. show less
Antik Atina'da demokrasinin gelişim sürecini bize aktarmasıyla çok faydalı bir eser.
Aristoteles'in Atinalıların Devleti adlı eseri, antik dünyanın en gelişmiş demokrasi deneyimlerinden biri olan Atina’nın siyasal evrimini ve idari işleyişini inceleyen teknik bir "devlet anatomisi" çalışmasıdır. Kitap, Atina devlet yapısının tarihsel kökenlerini, Draco'dan başlayarak Solon reformları ve Kleisthenes’in demokratik hamleleri üzerinden kronolojik olarak analiz ederken; ikinci bölümde devlet memuriyetleri, mahkemeler, halk meclisi ve mali sistem gibi kurumların günlük işleyişini detaylı bir rapor titizliğiyle ortaya koyar. Aristoteles bu eserinde, demokrasinin sadece ideal bir yönetim biçimi değil, yasalar, bürokratik mekanizmalar ve yurttaş katılımı ile hayatta kalan "yaşayan bir show more sistem" olduğunu kanıtlayarak, günümüz siyaset bilimi ve hukuk felsefesi için devlet yönetiminin kurumsal temellerini belirleyen en temel referans kaynaklarından birini oluşturur. show less
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- Canonical title
- The Athenian Constitution
- Original title
- αθηναίων πολιτεία
- Original publication date
- 450-350 BCE
- People/Characters
- Pericles; Pisistratus; Solon
- Important places
- Athens, Greece
- First words
- ... the prosecutor being Myron, and the jurors men qualified by good birth and swearing an oath over sacred victims.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)When the jurors have completed the trials prescribed by the laws, they receive their stipend, each in the division to which he is assigned by lot.
- Original language
- Ancient Greek
- Canonical DDC/MDS
- 320.9385
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- Politics and Government, Philosophy, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
- DDC/MDS
- 320.9385 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political situation and conditions Ancient World Greece to 323 Attica to 323
- LCC
- JC71 .A41 .R48 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Ancient state
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