Voting in Greece, Rome, and Gaul: Practices, Places, and Purposes.
| N° d'inventaire | 21945 |
| Format | 21 x 29.7 |
| Détails | 528 pages, 128 illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Lyon, 2019 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | |
In both its theoretical and material aspects, the voting system in the Greek and Roman worlds has long been explored within more general studies on institutions or different types of political regimes. However, it has never been the subject of publications bringing together both textual evidence and the results of archaeological excavations, with a view to a comprehensive understanding of this practice. From this observation was born the project of a synthesis focusing on the modalities, places and purposes of voting in Greece, Rome and Gaul, from a comparative perspective. Conducted as part of an interdisciplinary research program supported by the Lumière Lyon 2 University and the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, this research has raised, depending on the regions and periods concerned, specific questions but has also brought to light points of convergence. The collaboration of researchers from several disciplines – history, philology and archaeology – has made it possible to understand the practice of voting through its political implications, its procedural modalities and the place reserved for it in the civic space by the different ancient societies that implemented it. This work, which presents a synthesis on each of the geographical areas studied and brings together twenty-one contributions from seminars or study days held in Lyon, at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, from the end of 2012 to spring 2014, offers a unique approach to the act of voting in Antiquity.
In both its theoretical and material aspects, the voting system in the Greek and Roman worlds has long been explored within more general studies on institutions or different types of political regimes. However, it has never been the subject of publications bringing together both textual evidence and the results of archaeological excavations, with a view to a comprehensive understanding of this practice. From this observation was born the project of a synthesis focusing on the modalities, places and purposes of voting in Greece, Rome and Gaul, from a comparative perspective. Conducted as part of an interdisciplinary research program supported by the Lumière Lyon 2 University and the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, this research has raised, depending on the regions and periods concerned, specific questions but has also brought to light points of convergence. The collaboration of researchers from several disciplines – history, philology and archaeology – has made it possible to understand the practice of voting through its political implications, its procedural modalities and the place reserved for it in the civic space by the different ancient societies that implemented it. This work, which presents a synthesis on each of the geographical areas studied and brings together twenty-one contributions from seminars or study days held in Lyon, at the Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, from the end of 2012 to spring 2014, offers a unique approach to the act of voting in Antiquity.