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In the Hellenistic age changing political conditions set the stage for refinement and adaptation of the classical analysis and evaluation of forms of government. The most significant development was the rise of powerful autocratic monarchies on the model of the Persian and Egyptian kingships.
The adjective’s noun, Hellenism, or rather its German Urform of Hellenismus, derives from Droysen, who saw Hellenism not only as a phenomenon, but also as its own time period beginning with the campaigns of Alexander the Great and leading to a world that paved the way for the spread of Christianity.17 While both the model and the choice of ...
This dissertation reinterprets Athenian democracy as “dikastic democracy” (from the Greek dikastēs, “judge”), defined as a mode of government in which ordinary citizens rule principally through their control of the administration of justice.
Hellenistic philosophy concerns the thought of the Epicureans, Stoics, and Skeptics, the most influential philosophical groups in the era between the death of Alexander the Great (323 BCE) and the defeat of the last Greek stronghold in the ancient world (31 BCE).
26 Μαΐ 2011 · This article considers a range of recent major reconstructions of Hellenistic political views by scholars who claim that the period did indeed engage in genuine political philosophy.
The paper reflects on the study of politics in the Hellenistic polis (and by implication city-state regimes through Greco-Roman antiquity) in light of early modern and modern analyses of the democratic boundary problem.
Greek politics is inconceivable without the polis, at least until the Hellenistic period and the aftermath of the conquests of Alexander of Macedon; and it has its roots in the gradual emergence, first of polis-like entities, perhaps from the eighth century bce onwards, then of the full-blown thing itself.
