The Bad Citizen in Classical Athens

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This book provides a fresh standpoint on Athenian democracy by exploring bad citizenship, both as a reality and an idea, in classical Athens, from the late sixth century down to 322. If referred to as upon, Athenian citizens were expected to improve their city through military service and financial outlay. These obligations were fundamental to Athenian understandings of citizenship and it used to be very important to the city’s well-being that citizens fulfill them. The ancient sources, alternatively, are full of allegations that individuals have have shyed away from these duties or performed them deficiently. Claims of draft evasion, cowardice at the battlefield, and avoidance of liturgies and the war tax are common. By examining the nature and scope of bad citizenship in Athens and the city’s responses-institutional and ideological-to the phenomenon, this study aims to light up the relationship between citizen and city under the Athenian democracy, and more broadly, the stress between private interests and public authority in human societies.

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