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"Sharing in the polis". Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World

Donatella Erdas(editor)

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Title	"Sharing in the polis". Citizenship and Forms of Civic Participation in the Greek World
Contributor	Donatella Erdas(editor)
Landing page	https://libri.unimi.it/index.php/milanoup/catalog/book/292
License	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Copyright	The Author(s)
Publisher	Milano University Press
Publication place	Milano
Published on	2026-05-14
Long abstract	This volume assembles nineteen contributions on citizenship and civic participation in the Greek world from the Archaic to the Roman period. It engages citizenship not as a fixed category, but as a set of institutional frameworks, practices and narratives, exploring how sharing in the political community was articulated and experienced. The volume pursues both a vertical perspective with reference to the development of the concept of citizenship and a horizontal perspective through a comparative investigation of the notion of politeia in Greek cities and federal states. The aim is to bring into the discourse different strands of scholarship through the combined use of literary and epigraphic evidence and foster a multifaceted reconstruction of civic practices across regions and time, tracing long-term developments as well as institutional diversity. Within this framework, the essays engage with fundamental questions of inclusion, exclusion, and political belonging. The volume is complemented by a “lexicon of citizenship”.
Language	English (Original)
Keywords	Polis federal states Greek citizenship institutions society

Contents

Introduction

Aristotle on Citizenship as Sharing (Koinōnein) in the Political Community: A Matter of Degree?

Towards a Unified Theory of Greek Citizenship as Timē: Worth, Rights, Social Performance, and Political Participation

Sharing in the Polis: Greek Terms for Equality and Fairness

Isos kai Homoios in Greek Citizenship

The Proper Share: The Language of Citizenship, Participation, and Enfranchisement in Classical Greece

Sōphrōn Eunomia: Why It (Supposedly) Paid to Belong to an Oligarchic Community in Classical Greece

Plato’s Myths of Autochthony and the Debate over Citizenship and Political Participation in Fourth-Century Athens

Motherhood and Citizenship in the Classical Polis

Class, Citizenship and Symbolic Struggles in Classical Athens

Patterns and Scope of the Integration of Non-Citizens into the Athenian Civic Community

Land Lost, Land Redistributed: Citizenship and Property between Stability and Change in the Archaic and Classical Greek World

“Promiscuous Nations, Easily Shifting, and Easily Admitting New Commers”: πολιτογραφίαι, Manipulation of the Civic Body and Multiple Citizenships in Deinomenid Sicily

Citizenship, Land Tenure, and Community: A View from Oropos

Land and the Citizen in the Hellenistic Period

Συμπολιτεύειν: Being a Citizen, with Others

Political representation, Greek federal states, democracy, council, sortition

Sharing Beyond the Polis: Citizenship and Borders in Ancient Federal Greece

Participation by Ptolemy’s Writ: Cyrene’s Constitution and the Diagramma of Ptolemy I

Restriction of civil rights in the Roman world: the ius suffragii of liberti and incolae

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Contributors

Donatella Erdas

(editor)

University of Milan

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4137-3685

Donatella Erdas is Associate Professor of Greek History at the University of Milan. Her research interests include the institutional and economic history of the Greek world, the history and epigraphy of Greek colonial contexts, fragmentary Greek historiography, and the political works of Aristotle. She is author of Cratero il Macedone. Testimonianze e frammenti (2002) and, together with C. Ampolo, of Inscriptiones Segestanae*. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta* (2019). She is currently working on land distribution in Greek poleis.

This volume assembles nineteen contributions on citizenship and civic participation in the Greek world from the Archaic to the Roman period. It engages citizenship not as a fixed category, but as a set of institutional frameworks, practices and narratives, exploring how sharing in the political community was articulated and experienced. The volume pursues both a vertical perspective with reference to the development of the concept of citizenship and a horizontal perspective through a comparative investigation of the notion of politeia in Greek cities and federal states. The aim is to bring into the discourse different strands of scholarship through the combined use of literary and epigraphic evidence and foster a multifaceted reconstruction of civic practices across regions and time, tracing long-term developments as well as institutional diversity. Within this framework, the essays engage with fundamental questions of inclusion, exclusion, and political belonging. The volume is complemented by a “lexicon of citizenship”.