Citizenship Practised, Citizenship Imagined

Multiple Ways of Experiencing Citizenship in the Greek World

Edited by Lucia Cecchet Edited by Chiara Lasagni

Book cover: Citizenship Practised, Citizenship Imagined

Extent: 316 pages

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag

Subjects: Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(July 2025)

ISBN: 9783515137591

6.69 x 9.49 inches

Price: $87.00

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What makes a citizen a citizen? How do the values and practices of institutional and social life in ancient cities shape the identities of citizens? How did phenomena such as migration and the integration of foreigners into civic communities affect the discourse and reality of citizenship in the ancient Greek world? How was citizenship experienced beyond the polis? The contributions collected in this book attempt to answer such questions by fostering dialogue between scholars who have focused on the institutional aspects and those who have concentrated on the discursive and performative dimensions of Greek citizenship. It has become increasingly clear today that ancient Greek citizenship should be approached as a multifaceted phenomenon. Drawing on a wide range of source material, including inscriptions, material remains, and literary texts from Archaic Greece to the imperial period, this volume offers fresh insights into the institutions, practices and values that defined Greek citizenship status.

Lucia Cecchet ist Assozierte Professorin für griechische Geschichte an der Universität Mailand. Zuvor war sie an den Universitäten Mainz, Zürich und Trient tätig. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Armut in der griechischen Welt, griechisches Bürgerrecht von der klassischen Ziet bis zur Kaiserzeit, rhetorische Performanz in der Antike sowie die Auswirkungen von Krieg auf antike Gemeinschaften. Ab 2021 bis 2024 war sie Leiterin des Forschungsprojektes Citizenship and Identity in Post-Classical Asia Minor an der Universität Mailand.

  • Edited by Lucia Cecchet
  • Edited by Chiara Lasagni