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Population and Economy in Classical Athens

Cambridge Classical Studies

By (author) Ben Akrigg
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Published: 28th Mar 2019
Dimensions: w 140mm h 216mm d 17mm
Weight: 479g
ISBN-10: 1107027098
ISBN-13: 9781107027091
Barcode No: 9781107027091
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This is the first comprehensive account of the population of classical Athens for almost a century. The methodology of earlier scholars has been criticised in general terms but their conclusions have not been seriously challenged. Ben Akrigg reviews and assesses those methodologies and conclusions for the first time and thereby sets the historical demography of Athens on a firm footing. The main focus is on the economic impact of that demography, but new conclusions are presented which have profound implications for our understanding of Athenian society and culture. The book establishes that the Athenian population grew very large in the fifth century BC, before falling dramatically in the final three decades of that century. These changes had important immediate consequences but the city of the fourth century was shaped in fundamental ways by the demographic upheavals of its past.

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'Akrigg's work is the latest and among the best ... This is [a] first-rate book by an able scholar.' J. A. S. Evans, Choice