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Article: Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2004
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Greed and Injustice in Classical Athens. By Ryan K. Balot. (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 291. $39.50.)
Greed, identified as "central" to Athenian history, ideology, and political thought, as a prime motivator of political activity, and as the subject of contemporary analysts, is thus defined by the author: "Greed is a primarily materialistic type of desire, which is characteristically expressed by the attempt to satisfy bodily urges through the acquisition of money, material goods, and power" (1). It is closely associated with the second term of the study's title, injustice "[a] violation of equality and fairness, greed was ...