Abstract

Mustering extensive evidence, literary, epigraphic and archaeological, to support its wide-ranging and compelling exploration of certain ‘associations’ of Athens, this book is learned, provocative, and a worthwhile achievement. It comprises an introduction, five chapters, and a conclusion, with six appendices largely laying out epigraphic evidence, but also supplying relevant maps. Altogether, it covers an enormous amount of ground, summarizing, synthesizing, challenging and elaborating on mu...