1st Anniversary of Social Science Files [11th Feb]

Josiah Ober's Review of The Athenian Assembly in the Age of Demosthenes, by Mogens Herman Hansen

Today is the 1st Anniversary of Social Science Files! To celebrate I will do something a little bit different. I will begin a mini-series by exhibiting part of a review of a book.

What is the reason for the upcoming series?

One of my current tasks is the preparation of a new ‘typology of societies’. I will be arguing that in the long history ‘from early h…