Mass and elite in the Greek and Roman worlds : from Sparta to late antiquity / edited by Richard Evans.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Richard Evans (University of South Africa) -- Mass and elite revisited / Josiah Ober (Stanford University) -- Coinage and democracy : economic redistribution as the basis of democratic Athens / Matthew Trundle (University of Auckland) -- The frame of mind of eutaxia / Luca Sansone di Campobianco (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) -- Ancient cynicism : for the elite or for the masses? / Philip Bosman (University of South Africa) -- Livy on mass and elite interaction in Syracuse in 214 BC : Libertas, Multitudo, Uxores / Richard Evans (University of South Africa) -- Plebeian agency in the later Roman Republic / Loonis Logghe (University of Ghent) -- Mass and elite in the poetry of Horace : populating satire 1.6 / Suzanne Sharland (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) -- Living in Republican Rome : shanty metropolis / Lisa Marie Mignone (Brown University) -- City, village, sacrifice : the political economy of religion in the early Roman Empire / Clifford Ando (University of Chicago) -- Crowds and power : the Misopogon of the Emperor Julian and Aethiopica of Heliodorus / John Hilton (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) -- From mass to elite in the later Roman Empire / Hartmut Ziche (University of the Antilles/Johannesburg) -- Mass and elite in late antique religion : the case of Manichaeism / Nicholas Baker-Brian (Cardiff University).

"The discussion in this volume offers an analysis of the defining roles of mass and elite elements in Greek and Roman society, and in their socio-political, economic, military and religious contexts. This interaction, whether it was in terms of conflict or in cooperation between the mass--the general body of (usually) citizens--and elite figures or groups within the various communities of ancient Greece, the Roman Republic and Empire, and during Late Antiquity, is given particular attention. The almost constant exchange between these two entities made them vital forces in every state's determination of public policy, social and political progress and, ultimately, success or failure"--Provided by publisher.