Macroculture, sports and democracy in classical Greece

Kyriazis, Nicholas; Economou, Emmanouil M. L.

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“…Hunting in ancient Hellas was practiced liberally by all free citizens. The equal opportunities to hunt differentiated Hellenic culture from the other ancient cultures, and may have contributed to the “democracy of hunting” concept (Kyriazis and Economou ). This concept shaped the current hunting system in Hellas, and is associated with the North American Model of wildlife management (Geist et al ), just as it contributed to the North American model of democracy itself.…”

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Insights for contemporary hunting from ancient hellenic culture

Sokos¹,

Peterson

Birtsas

et al. 2014

Wildl. Soc. Bull.

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Urbanization and other threats to hunting culture have inspired growth in research that addresses the role of hunting in western society today. This literature addresses the juxtaposition of nonsubsistence hunting and modern western models of wildlife management associated with either the public trust doctrine or market economics. Insights for understanding this juxtaposition can be drawn from the historical efforts to frame hunting as a symbolic, versus subsistence, activity in ancient Hellenic (Greek) culture. For the ancient Hellenes, hunting offered the opportunity to acquire edification, test skills, and to enjoy a feeling of freedom, and did so for all citizens, even for women. Edification meant more than knowledge about hunting to the ancient Hellenes. It referred to respect for the purity of nature and a hunting ethic, and strict adherence to hunting norms. Testing skills dictated fair chase, where tools and techniques used should not eliminate the need for physical and mental dexterity. Feeling of freedom meant that hunters became useful for themselves and for society through skills acquired by hunting; a modern society might define this as self-sufficiency or independence, which contributes to a greater societal good. These symbolic dimensions of hunting developed in ancient Hellas could provide guidelines for the social identity that hunters hope to develop in our modern world by improving hunting education, promotion, and management.

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Insights for contemporary hunting from ancient hellenic culture

Sokos¹,

Peterson

Birtsas

et al. 2014

Wildl. Soc. Bull.

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“…He entrusted one of his friends, to commission a play, by playwright Phrynichus, a tragic poet, called the "Fall of Miletus," 8 to be presented during the theatrical contests. The play, illustrating the 5 For this issue, see Kyriazis and Economou (2013) and the references there in. 6 For the calculation of the number of the Athenian citizens during the fifth century, being 60,000, see Kyriazis and Paparrigopoulos (2012).…”

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The University According to Humboldt

Backhaus¹

2015

SpringerBriefs in Economics

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“…It is generally accepted that direct democracy emerged by the end of the sixth century BCE in Classical Greece, the first fully developed example being Athens after the reforms of Cleisthenes of 510-507 and the fall of tyranny. This development was the result of a preceding framework of values, norms, customs, institutions and ideas that evolved in different fields of human activity, such as war, religion, athletics, and the city-state, which, combined, were unique in eighth to sixth century BCE Greece (Ober 2008(Ober , 2015Pritchard 2013;Kyriazis and Economou 2015).…”

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The emergence and the development of the Achaean federation: lessons and institutional proposals for modern societies

Economou

Kyriazis

2016

Evolut Inst Econ Rev

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In the present essay, we analyse the development of the proto-federations of the democratic city-states. We examine the political institutions and policies developed in the Achaean federation such as common defense and external policy, military organization, representative federal bodies like popular assemblies, parliament, generals as military and political commanders, federal finance ministers, etc., as well as its economic institutions and policies: common currency, federal budget and federal revenues. We offer arguments as to why the Achaean federation emerged and proved successful and finally, we offer some ideas as to how the Achaean federation would have faced a series of current global issues such as the European Union integration, global terrorism, etc.

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Macroculture, sports and democracy in classical Greece

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Insights for contemporary hunting from ancient hellenic culture

Insights for contemporary hunting from ancient hellenic culture

The University According to Humboldt

The emergence and the development of the Achaean federation: lessons and institutional proposals for modern societies

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