The Aristocratic Ideal and Selected Papers

Donlan’s 1980 seminal work, The Aristocratic Ideal in Ancient Greece: Attitudes of Superiority from Homer to the End of the Fifth Century B.C., in combination with the reprinting of eight of Donlan’s other related works, spanning the years 1970-1994.

The Aristocratic Ideal

• The Ideal of the Warrior-Aristocrat
• The Old Ideal under Challenge
• The Crisis of Identity: Theognis and Pindar
• The Aristocratic Ideal in the Classical Period
• Aristocratic Life-Style in the Fifth Century BC

Selected Papers

• Changes and Shifts in the Meaning of Demos in the Literature of the Archaic Period (1970)
• The Tradition of Anti-Aristocratic Thought in Early Greek Poetry (1973)
• The Structure of Authority in the Iliad (1979)
• The Unequal Exchange Between Glaucus and Diomedes in Light of the Homeric Gift-Economy (1989)
• The Pre-State Community in Greece (1989)
• Homeric tsmenoz and the Land Economy of the Dark Age (1989)
• Duelling with Gifts in the Iliad: As the Audience Saw It (1983)
• Chief and Followers in Pre-State Greece (1994)