The Carlyle Lectures - Constitutions before Constitutionalism: Classical Greek Ideas of Office and Rule (Lecture One)
Lecture One: Office and Anarchy

This lecture introduces the importance of political office in the grammar of Greek constitutional thought, by exploring historical moments suggesting that the Athenians at least had an implicitly normative conception of political office. The most important of these episodes is in the aftermath of the rule of the Thirty in 404/03, when some texts record the archon under the Thirty whose name would normally be used to date the festival year as Pythodorus, but others record this as a year of anarchia, in which no (valid) archon had served.

The Carlyle Lectures are a lecture series co-sponsored by the Department of Politics and International Relations and the Faculty of History.
Date: 16 January 2018, 17:00
Venue: Examination Schools, 75-81 High Street OX1 4BG
Speaker: Melissa Lane (Princeton)
Organising department: Faculty of History
Booking required?: Not required
Audience: Public
Editors: James Baldwin, Margo Kirk, Barnaby King