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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      08 March 2019
      28 March 2019
      ISBN:
      9781139225250
      9781107027091
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781139225250
      Dimensions:
      (216 x 138 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.47kg, 282 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Ancient History, Social and Population History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), History
      Series:
      Cambridge Classical Studies
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    Subjects:
    Ancient History, Social and Population History, Classical Studies, Classical Studies (General), History
    Series:
    Cambridge Classical Studies
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    This is the first comprehensive account of the population of classical Athens for almost a century. The methodology of earlier scholars has been criticised in general terms but their conclusions have not been seriously challenged. Ben Akrigg reviews and assesses those methodologies and conclusions for the first time and thereby sets the historical demography of Athens on a firm footing. The main focus is on the economic impact of that demography, but new conclusions are presented which have profound implications for our understanding of Athenian society and culture. The book establishes that the Athenian population grew very large in the fifth century BC, before falling dramatically in the final three decades of that century. These changes had important immediate consequences but the city of the fourth century was shaped in fundamental ways by the demographic upheavals of its past.

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    'Akrigg’s work is the latest and among the best … This is [a] first-rate book by an able scholar.'

    J. A. S. Evans Source: Choice

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    • Chapter 4 - Population Size 2: Non-Citizens
      pp 89-138
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