Abstract
Chapter 9 discusses the issue of civic identity in late fourth-century Athens, looking at the different trajectories of Phocion and Demetrius of Phalerum. Phocion is given the opportunity of a formal trial in the theatre where, however, the magistrates give access to everybody without distinction (men and women, slaves, foreigners, disenfranchised people) who decide on the death penalty, thus implementing the verdict Antipater had already dictated to the Athenians. Demetrius of Phalerum, on the other hand, fled Athens when Demetrius Poliorcetes took Athens by surprise, first to Thebes and then to Alexandria, where he wore the hat of the philosopher/scholar and probably exercised considerable influence over Ptolemy I Soter. It is argued that the fortunes of Phocion and Demetrius of Phalerum represent different concepts of citizenship that herald the changes brought about by the new political reality of the Hellenistic period.
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