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17. CLASSICAL ATHENIAN STATESMANSHIP AND THE SPECTER OF DEMAGOGY

Panel Convenors

Aaron Hershkowitz (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) [ahershkowitz@ias.edu]

Michael McGlin (Temple University, Philadelphia)

 

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Aaron Hershlowitz is currently the coordinator of the Krateros Squeeze Digitization Project at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from Rutgers University in 2018 with a dissertation entitled Rise of the Demagogues: Political Leadership in Imperial Athens after the Reforms of Ephialtes, which he is currently reworking as a monograph. He has also published on patterns of variation in the “Athenian tribute list” inscriptions, and on the political/propagandistic usage of the myth of Helen’s abduction by Theseus.

 

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Michael McGlin is an Instructional Assistant Professor at Temple University. He received his Ph.D. in Classics from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 2019. His dissertation is entitled Sacred Loans, Sacred Interest(s): An Economic Analysis of Temple Loans from Independent Delos (314-167 BCE). Mike was the James Rignall Wheeler fellow at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2014-15, and has excavated in Bodrum for the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and in Rome for the American Institute of Roman Culture. He served as the editorial assistant for the journal Arethusa from 2012-2014, and as editorial assistant to the Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology in 2016-2017. He is currently at work on a book project building upon his dissertation research.

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