Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Subject -- Limitation of the Subject: Quantity of Evidence and Chronology -- Ancient Sources for the Associations of Classical Athens -- Secondary Literature on the Associations of Classical Athens -- 1 "Associations," Solon's Law, and the Democracy -- The Definition of "Association -- Solon's Law on Associations -- Democracy and Associations -- 2 The Demes: Definitions and Membership -- The Deme as "Natural Community -- The Disposition of the Deme: People or Territory? -- The Territorial Deme -- 3 The Isolation of the Demes -- Pankleon, Dekeleia, and the Isolation of the Rural Demes -- The Extra-Urban Deme as Independent Administrative Center -- Determinants of the Isolation of the Extra-Urban Demes: General Considerations and an Hypothesis -- Testing the Hypothesis: Documents of the Demes -- Testing the Hypothesis: The Demes in Comedy -- Deme versus Deme Relations -- 4 The Demes: Expansion and Decline -- The Women of the Demotai -- The Rise of the Territorial Deme -- The Decline of the Constitutional Deme -- 5 The Phylai: Disposition, Meetings, and Solidarity -- Introduction -- The Disposition of the Phyle Organization -- The Agorai: Location, Schedule, Agenda, and Purpose -- The Solidarity of the Phyle as Association -- Postscriptum -- 6 The Phylai: Instruments of Representation? -- The Officers of the Internally Organized Phylai -- The Proposers of the Decrees -- The Honorands of the Decrees -- The Phyle Association as Instrument of Representation -- 7 The Phratries -- The Public Role of the Phratries -- Regional Distribution and Relation to the Urban Center -- The Relations of the Phratries and the Demes -- Subdivisions of the Phratry and Social Differentiation -- 8 "Clubs," Schools, Regional, and Cultic Associations -- Classical Athenian "Voluntary" Associations.

Clubs -- Philosophical Schools -- Regional Associations -- Genê -- Orgeones -- 9 The Organization of the Cretan City in Plato's Laws -- Introduction -- The Public Organization: Components and Disposition -- The Public Organization: External or Statewide Functions -- The Public Organization: Internal or Associational Functions -- The Syssitia -- Conclusion: The City of the Laws and Associations -- 10 Government and Associations: "The Response to Democracy -- Appendix 1. Post-Macedonian Associations at Athens -- Appendix 2. Solon's Law on Associations -- Appendix 3. Documents of the Internally Organized Phylai -- Bibliography -- Select Literary Passages -- Select Inscriptions -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X.

A study of the associations of ancient Athens under the classical democracy, in light of their relations to the central government. Associations of all types emerge as similar instances of Aristolian koinoniai, each acquiring a distinctive character in response to features of the democracy.

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