I will be presenting and chairing a panel at CPSA this coming June: Classical Political Thought, Democratic Theory and Practice. Look me up if you are planning to attend!
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If you are interested in case studies of democratization, Polity has just released an article where I analyze the role of religious practices and institutions in normalizing a democratic transition: Democratic Civil Religion and the Kleisthenic Reforms.
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Ancient Atlas
I ran across this gazetteer when I was looking up classics citation styles: https://pleiades.stoa.org/. It allows you to find the location of ancient sites on a contemporary satellite map. Essential for re-watching Winterbottom’s Trip to Greece!
This site is a blast from the past of the educational internet: Hellenic History. All the page copyrights seem to be pre-2000, but the graphic design is pretty retro. I have been finding the subtopics on the Archaic age particularly useful. I ran into a similar resource when I was writing my MA thesis: it explained the basic engineering problems faced by Roman aqueduct builders very handily, but didn’t serve as a rigorous source because it didn’t have any citations. I have the sense that twenty or twenty-five years ago people were excited to host encyclopedia entries on their personal websites, and that some of these people just kept paying the ISP fees. These articles are somehow easier to digest then Wikipedia entires and also evoke a lot of nostalgia!
Lucas Jerusalimiec 