On the Agora. Power and Public Space in Hellenistic and Roman Greece. - DICKENSON, Chr.P.,
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Chris Dickenson?s central argument is that the life on the ?agora? was more vibrant and dynamic, and more important to the functioning of the polis than people have up to now suspected. Dickenson?s thesis is based on the premise that public space provides a useful window through which to look at the society and culture of the people who use it. Public space brings together people of different background and with conflicting ideas and ideals. This means that various individuals and subgroups within an urban population all have a vested interest in the way in which public space is used and how it looks. As such power relations within a society are often contested, negotiated or reaffirmed within areas of public space, as modern investigations of public space by anthropologists and sociologists have shown. If this vision holds for modern cities, it is even more true of pre-modern societies where, in the absence of modern mass media, electronic communications and fast forms of transport, personal interactions in ...
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n.p., 2012. 643p. Theses. Paperback. Signature on title page. Diss. Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. (Rare). [Antiquarian] [Auteur: DICKENSON, Chr.P.,] [Uitgever: Private Presses] [Jaar: 2012] [Titel: On the Agora. Power and Public Space in Hellenistic and Roman Greece.]
