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A social network analysis of classical Athens (403-322 BC): a corroboration of the notion of the stateless polis?
Code
01P02313
Duration
01 October 2013 → 30 September 2017
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
  • Social sciences
    • Economic history
    • Applied sociology
Keywords
stateless society polis classical Athens social network analysis
 
Project description
 

This project aims to test Berent’s thesis of the Greek polis as a ‘stateless society’. If ‘the’ polis functioned as a stateless society, the absence of a state coercive apparatus would have had to be compensated for by non-state-based forces of integration. This project will examine to what extent social networks in Athens (403-322 BC) functioned as such a force of integration.