‘Sharing in the polis’: citizenship and forms of civic participation in the Greek world

This volume assembles nineteen contributions on citizenship and civic participation in the Greek world from the Archaic to the Roman period. It engages citizenship not as a fixed category, but as a set of institutional frameworks, practices and narratives, exploring how sharing in the political community was articulated and experienced. The volume pursues both a vertical perspective with reference to the development of the concept of citizenship and a horizontal perspective through a comparative investigation of the notion of politeia in Greek cities and federal states. The aim is to bring into the discourse different strands of scholarship through the combined use of literary and epigraphic evidence and foster a multifaceted reconstruction of civic practices across regions and time, tracing long-term developments as well as institutional diversity. Within this framework, the essays engage with fundamental questions of inclusion, exclusion, and political belonging. The volume is complemented by a “lexicon of citizenship”.