A History of Trust in Ancient Greece by Steven Johnstone

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By Steven Johnstone

An huge, immense volume of literature exists on Greek legislation, economics, and political philosophy. but not anyone has written a historical past of belief, the most primary elements of social and financial interplay within the historic global. during this clean examine antiquity, Steven Johnstone explores the way in which democracy and markets flourished in historical Greece no longer a lot via own relationships as via belief in summary systems—including funds, standardized size, rhetoric, and haggling.

Focusing on markets and democratic politics, Johnstone attracts on speeches given in Athenian courts, histories of Athenian democracy, comedian writings, and legislation inscribed on stone to envision how those platforms labored. He analyzes their potentials and obstacles and the way the Greeks understood and critiqued them. In supplying the 1st accomplished account of those pervasive and the most important platforms, A background of belief in historical Greece hyperlinks Greek political, fiscal, social, and highbrow heritage in new methods and demanding situations modern analyses of belief and civil society.

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