Dean Hammer is the John W. Wetzel Professor of Classics and Professor of Government at Franklin and Marshall College (USA). He is the author of, amongst others, The Iliad as Politics: The Performance of Political Thought (2002), Roman Political Thought and the Modern Theoretical Imagination (2008), and Roman Political Thought: From Cicero to Augustine (2015).

A Companion to Greek Democracy and the Roman Republic offers a comparative approach to examining ancient Greek and Roman participatory communities.
* Explores various aspects of participatory communities through pairs of chapters--one Greek, one Roman--to highlight comparisons between cultures
* Examines the types of relationships that sustained participatory communities, the challenges they faced, and how they responded
* Sheds new light on participatory contexts using diverse methodological approaches
* Brings an international array of scholars into dialogue with each other

Notes on Contributors ix
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
Dean Hammer
1 Reading the Past (On Comparison) 8
David Konstan
PART I The Emergence of Participatory Communities 21
2 Why Greek Democracy? Its Emergence and Nature in Context 23
Kurt A. Raaflaub
3 Why Roman Republicanism? Its Emergence and Nature in Context 44
Michael P. Fronda
PART II Constructing a Past 65
4 Autochthony and Identity in Greek Myth 67
Kathryn A. Morgan
5 Agriculture and Identity in Roman Myth 83
Mary Jaeger
PART III Demokratia and Res Publica 99
6 Liberty, Equality, and Authority: A Political Discourse in Greek Participatory Communities 101
Vincent Farenga
7 Liberty, Equality, and Authority: A Political Discourse in the Later Roman Republic 113
Malcolm Schofield
PART IV Institutions 129
8 The Congruence of Power: Ruling and Being Ruled in Greek Participatory Communities 131
P.J. Rhodes
9 The Incongruence of Power: The Roman Constitution in Theory and Practice 146
Henrik Mouritsen
PART V Law 165
10 Tyranny or the Rule of Law? Democratic Participation in Legal Institutions in Athens 167
David Cohen
11 The Evolution of Law and Legal Procedures in the Roman Participatory Context 179
Callie Williamson
PART VI Social Values 193
12 Informal Norms, Values, and Social Control in Greek Participatory Communities 195
Nick Fisher
13 Informal Norms, Values, and Social Control in the Roman Participatory Context 217
Valentina Arena
PART VII Power Relations and Political Groups 239
14 The Practice of Politics in Classical Athens, and the Paradox of Democratic Leadership 241
Robert W. Wallace
15 The Practice of Politics and the Unpredictable Dynamics of Clout in the Roman Republic 257
W. Jeffrey Tatum
PART VIII Rhetoric 275
16 Persuading the People in Greek Participatory Communities 277
Joseph Roisman
17 Persuading the People in the Roman Participatory Context 294
Robert Morstein-Marx
PART IX Global Contexts 311
18 Interstate Relations, Colonization, and Empire among Greek Participatory Communities 313
Sarah Bolmarcich
19 Interstate Relations, Federal States, Colonization, and Empire during the Roman Republic 329
Craige B. Champion
PART X Economic Life 347
20 Production, Trade, and Consumption in Greek Democracy 349
David W. Tandy
21 Production, Trade, and Consumption in the Roman Republic 368
Luuk de Ligt
PART XI Discourses of Inclusion and Exclusion 387
22 Women and Slaves in Greek Democracy 389
Ryan K. Balot and Larissa M. Atkison
23 Women and Slaves in the Roman Republic 405
Roberta Stewart
PART XII Entertainment 429
24 Tragedy and Comedy in Greek Participatory Communities 431
Keith Sidwell
25 Tragedy and Comedy in the Roman Participatory Context 446
Shawn O'Bryhim
PART XIII Visual Culture 459
26 Art, Architecture, and Spaces in Greek Participatory Communities 461
Tonio Hölscher
27 Art, Architecture, and Space in the Roman Participatory Context 482
Ellen Perry
PART XIV Conclusion 501
28 Thinking Comparatively about Participatory Communities 503
Dean Hammer
Index 521