Mirko Canevaro
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Address: School of History, Classics, and Archaeology
University of Edinburgh
William Robertson Wing
Teviot Place
Edinburgh EH8 9AG
SCOTLAND
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University of Edinburgh
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Teviot Place
Edinburgh EH8 9AG
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Books by Mirko Canevaro
There is a long history of successful engagement between social science and classical studies. Social science has been a source of new and productive approaches to understanding ancient Greece, while classical Greek history and culture has been a touchstone for social theorists since the 19th century. This new collection of essays surveys the current state of the new field of ‘social science Greek history’ and demonstrates the potential of this interdisciplinary field.
Substantial bodies of work that have contributed in fundamental ways to our understanding of classical Greece and its cultural legacy were produced in 20th century, by employing methods from anthropology, sociology, and psychology. More recently, the use of quantitative methods and formal theory, drawn from contemporary political science, economics, and sociology, has led to a new understanding of ancient Greek economic and political development. Meanwhile, normative considerations, drawn from contemporary political philosophy, have led to a richer understanding of Greek political thought and Greek institutional innovations – notably including democracy and the rule of law.
Introduces a new field within classical studies
Demonstrates the value of robustly interdisciplinary scholarship
Shows the practical value of social science for ancient history
Highlights the importance of Greek case studies for social science
Contributors include Sara Forsdyke, David Lewis, Robert Fleck and Andrew Hanssen
Co-edited with Benjamin Gray, Oxford University Press, 2018
The essays collected here encompass historical, philosophical, and literary approaches to the various Hellenistic responses to and adaptations of Classical Athenian politics. They survey the complex processes through which Athenian democratic ideals of equality, freedom, and civic virtue were emphasized, challenged, blunted, or reshaped in different Hellenistic contexts and genres. They also consider the reception, in the changed political circumstances, of Classical Athenian non- and anti-democratic political thought. This makes it possible to investigate how competing Classical Athenian ideas about the value or shortcomings of democracy and civic community continued to echo through new political debates in Hellenistic cities and schools. Looking ahead to the Roman Imperial period, the volume also explores to what extent those who idealized Classical Athens as a symbol of cultural and intellectual excellence drew on, or forgot, its legacy of democracy and vigorous political debate. By addressing these different questions it not only tracks changes in practices and conceptions of politics and the city in the Hellenistic world, but also examines developing approaches to culture, rhetoric, history, ethics, and philosophy, and especially their relationships with politics.
Examining the documents found in Demosthenes' On the Crown, Against Meidias, Against Aristocrates, Against Timocrates, and Apollodorus' Against Neaera, the core of the volume provides a guide for the reliability of the individual documents, and advances new interpretations of important Athenian laws, such as homicide regulations, legislative procedures, laws on theft, seduction, naturalization, and outlawry. I argue that some of the documents have been inserted into the speeches in an Athenian environment at the beginning of the third century BC and are therefore reliable, while many others are later forgeries. These are early products of the tradition of historical declamations and progymnasmata, and could be used as evidence of Hellenistic oratory and rhetorical education."
Papers by Mirko Canevaro
homicide law (IG I3 104). Previous editions starting with Köhler have restored the lacunas in the text with phrases from a document inserted into the text of the Demosthenic speech Against Macartatus (43.57-58). The second section of this essay shows that the document is a forgery containing several mistakes about Athenian law and legal procedure and a form of the word phrater not found until the Hellenistic period.
The third part examines the procedure of examining (dokimasia) the laws, which led to the republication of Draco’s homicide law and shows that the procedure did not revise laws but either accepted them without changes or annulled them. The fourth part proposes new restorations in lines 13-16 and lines 18-23. The fourth part proposes several possible restorations for line 11 and explains why Draco’s homicide law did not contain a rule about intentional homicide. The sixth part places the law in the context of long-term developments in Greek Law during the Archaic period and shows why there is no reason to connect the law with the suppression of Cylon’s conspiracy. The article shows that the text of the law used by Gagarin, Phillips, Pepe, Schmitz, Thür, Osborne and Rhodes is not reliable.
There is a long history of successful engagement between social science and classical studies. Social science has been a source of new and productive approaches to understanding ancient Greece, while classical Greek history and culture has been a touchstone for social theorists since the 19th century. This new collection of essays surveys the current state of the new field of ‘social science Greek history’ and demonstrates the potential of this interdisciplinary field.
Substantial bodies of work that have contributed in fundamental ways to our understanding of classical Greece and its cultural legacy were produced in 20th century, by employing methods from anthropology, sociology, and psychology. More recently, the use of quantitative methods and formal theory, drawn from contemporary political science, economics, and sociology, has led to a new understanding of ancient Greek economic and political development. Meanwhile, normative considerations, drawn from contemporary political philosophy, have led to a richer understanding of Greek political thought and Greek institutional innovations – notably including democracy and the rule of law.
Introduces a new field within classical studies
Demonstrates the value of robustly interdisciplinary scholarship
Shows the practical value of social science for ancient history
Highlights the importance of Greek case studies for social science
Contributors include Sara Forsdyke, David Lewis, Robert Fleck and Andrew Hanssen
Co-edited with Benjamin Gray, Oxford University Press, 2018
The essays collected here encompass historical, philosophical, and literary approaches to the various Hellenistic responses to and adaptations of Classical Athenian politics. They survey the complex processes through which Athenian democratic ideals of equality, freedom, and civic virtue were emphasized, challenged, blunted, or reshaped in different Hellenistic contexts and genres. They also consider the reception, in the changed political circumstances, of Classical Athenian non- and anti-democratic political thought. This makes it possible to investigate how competing Classical Athenian ideas about the value or shortcomings of democracy and civic community continued to echo through new political debates in Hellenistic cities and schools. Looking ahead to the Roman Imperial period, the volume also explores to what extent those who idealized Classical Athens as a symbol of cultural and intellectual excellence drew on, or forgot, its legacy of democracy and vigorous political debate. By addressing these different questions it not only tracks changes in practices and conceptions of politics and the city in the Hellenistic world, but also examines developing approaches to culture, rhetoric, history, ethics, and philosophy, and especially their relationships with politics.
Examining the documents found in Demosthenes' On the Crown, Against Meidias, Against Aristocrates, Against Timocrates, and Apollodorus' Against Neaera, the core of the volume provides a guide for the reliability of the individual documents, and advances new interpretations of important Athenian laws, such as homicide regulations, legislative procedures, laws on theft, seduction, naturalization, and outlawry. I argue that some of the documents have been inserted into the speeches in an Athenian environment at the beginning of the third century BC and are therefore reliable, while many others are later forgeries. These are early products of the tradition of historical declamations and progymnasmata, and could be used as evidence of Hellenistic oratory and rhetorical education."
homicide law (IG I3 104). Previous editions starting with Köhler have restored the lacunas in the text with phrases from a document inserted into the text of the Demosthenic speech Against Macartatus (43.57-58). The second section of this essay shows that the document is a forgery containing several mistakes about Athenian law and legal procedure and a form of the word phrater not found until the Hellenistic period.
The third part examines the procedure of examining (dokimasia) the laws, which led to the republication of Draco’s homicide law and shows that the procedure did not revise laws but either accepted them without changes or annulled them. The fourth part proposes new restorations in lines 13-16 and lines 18-23. The fourth part proposes several possible restorations for line 11 and explains why Draco’s homicide law did not contain a rule about intentional homicide. The sixth part places the law in the context of long-term developments in Greek Law during the Archaic period and shows why there is no reason to connect the law with the suppression of Cylon’s conspiracy. The article shows that the text of the law used by Gagarin, Phillips, Pepe, Schmitz, Thür, Osborne and Rhodes is not reliable.
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This five-year project will run from 2018 to 2022.