Gather at 4th floor, HGS,
for continental breakfast
9:45 a.m.
Session 1: War and the Franchise: When
does mobilizing for war lead to democratic concessions?
Ian Morris: Military and Political Participation
in Archaic-Classical Greece
Pasquale Pasquino: Athens, War and Demokratia: Ideology
or Reality?
Walter Scheidel: Military Commitments and Political
Bargaining in Ancient Greece.
11:00 a.m.
Coffee Break
12:45 p.m.
Lunch at Scoozi
2:00 p.m.
Session 2: Democratic Capacity:
Do democracies possess advantages in mobilizing for
war? Are there institutional or socio-economic variations
among democracies that might affect this capacity?
Josiah Ober: Democracy, Knowledge and Military Proficiency.
Barry Strauss: Memorandum: Workshop on Military Organization
and Political Regimes in Classical Greece
3:30 p.m.
Coffee Break
5:00 p.m.
Adjourn
6:00 p.m.
Drinks and Dinner at Zinc
Monday
9:00 a.m.
Continental Breakfast at HGS
9:30 a.m.
Session 3: Mobilization and Scale: How
might differences in economies of scale for defense,
economics and politics affect the forms of military
organization in ancient Greece? What other forms of
mobilization for war, besides democratic concessions,
did Greek poleis employ?
Emily Mackil: Warfare and Political Scale: The Experiment
of Koinon.
