title: The Athenian Citizen: Democracy in the Athenian Agora (Agora Picture Book)
author: Mabel Lang
description: Camps new edition of this little gem improves on Mabel Langs simple but superb 1987 original[...]The illustrations, now mostly in color, with crisp resolution and almost no glare, are a most welcome improvement. Camp offers appropriate new additions, substitutions, and in some cases, a reordering or recasting of Langs original images. These changes make the text more memorable and the illustrations more vital to the book as a whole[...]<br> <br> This slim volume is thus well-worth including as required reading for almost any introductory undergraduate course to Greek civilization, as this reviewer intends to do at Bucknell University. The book will likewise be attractive to the interested layperson as a brief and general introduction to some of the most important issues of Athenian political life. In short, this little volume is everything an Agora Picture Book should be: concise but informative, easy to read (and to carry), and, now, pretty.<br> <br> Read the full review at the BMCR website: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-08-12.html (Stephanie Larson, Bucknell University <i>Bryn Mawr Classical Review</i>)
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  Race and Citizen Identity in the
  Classical Athenian Democracy
  In Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy, Susan
  Lape demonstrates how a racial ideology grounded citizen identity.
  Although this ideology did not manifest itself in a fully developed race
  myth,itsstudyoffersinsightintothecausesandconditionsthatcangive
  risetoraceandracismsinbothmodernandpre-moderncultures.Inthe
  Athenian context, racial citizenship emerged because it both identiﬁed
  who the citizens were and explained why they deserved to share in
  the goods of citizenship. By investigating Athenian law, drama, and
  citizenshippractices,thisstudyshowshowracialcitizenshipworkedin
  practice to consolidate national unity and to account for past Athenian
  achievements.ItalsoconsidershowAthenianidentitynarrativesfueled
  Herodotus’ and Thucydides’ understanding of history and causation.
  Susan Lape is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of
  Southern California. She is