Homo Oeconomicos: The Athenian Metics in the XIX and XX Century Historiography
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2177-4218.v1i1p37-56Keywords:
Athens, Metics, HistoriographyAbstract
This article aims to give a critical account of t he historiography about the Athenian metics, discussing the limits and possibilities of studies made by four central authors (Clerc, Whitehead, Rom án and Baslez). The article ends with a analysis of a Lysias’ speech called Againt Philon , about a Athenian citizen who become a metic in the polis of Oropus, near Athens, during the Thirty regime and the subsequent democratic restoration war; this analysi s is presented here as an example of surpassing of the traditional dichotomy citizen (homo politicus)/metic (homo oeconomicus), showing in the same time an economic motivation in a citizen’s choice before th e political loyalty of metics who fought in democratic ranks
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