Mass and Elite in the Greek and Roman Worlds From Sparta to Late Antiquity

Preface: Richard Evans (University of South Africa)

Acknowledgements

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1: Josiah Ober (Stanford University)

Mass and Elite Revisited

Chapter 2: Matthew Trundle (University of Auckland)

Coinage and Democracy: Economic Redistribution as the Basis of Democratic Athens

Chapter 3: Luca Sansone di Campobianco (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban)

The frame of mind of εὐταξία

Chapter 4: Philip Bosman (University of South Africa)

Ancient Cynicism: For the Elite or for the Masses?

Chapter 5: Richard Evans (University of South Africa)

Livy on Mass and Elite Interaction in Syracuse in 214 BC: Libertas, Multitudo, Uxores

Chapter 6: Loonis Logghe (University of Ghent)

Plebeian Agency in the Later Roman Republic

Chapter 7: Suzanne Sharland (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban)

Mass and Elite in the poetry of Horace: Populating Satire 1.6

Chapter 8: Lisa Marie Mignone (Brown University)

Living in Republican Rome: Shanty Metropolis

Chapter 9: Clifford Ando (University of Chicago)

City, village, sacrifice: The political economy of religion in the early Roman Empire

Chapter 10: John Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban)

Crowds and Power: The Misopogon of the Emperor Julian and Aethiopica of Heliodorus

Chapter 11: Hartmut Ziche (University of the Antilles/Johannesburg)

From Mass to Elite in the Later Roman Empire

Chapter 12: Nicholas Baker-Brian (Cardiff University)

Mass and Elite in Late Antique Religion: The Case of Manichaeism

Biography

Richard Evans has taught at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, and the University of Cardiff, UK. His research has focussed on the political and military history of Greece and Rome, and the ancient topography of Sicily and Magna Graecia. His publications include histories of Syracuse (2009 and 2016) and Pergamum (2012), a political biography of Gaius Marius (1994), a study of Roman imperialism in the eastern Mediterranean (2011) and studies of significant battles and sieges of antiquity (2013 and 2015). He is currently Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Biblical and Ancient Studies at the University of South Africa.

"The variety and broad range of topics that are being covered in this stimulating and interesting volume demonstrate the enormous diversity of research on masses and elites. On the one hand, the volume brings out the opportunities for multi-disciplinary approaches while on the other hand the classical philological approach via the ancient sources shows its vitality and continues to be necessary. On the whole, the volume presents various initial steps towards new interpretations and points to new avenues for future research, for which it deserves our close scholarly attention."

- Daniëlle​ Slootjes, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2018