^{page 13 note 1} T.A.Ph.A. xciv (1963), 145–153.Google Scholar

^{page 13 note 2} The relationship between peasant and the élite is admirably discussed by the anthropologist Robert Redfield in chapter viii, ‘A Community within Communities’, of his The Little Community, and chapter ii, ‘Peasantry: Part-Societies’, of his Peasant Society and Culture.

^{page 13 note 3} Gymnasium, lx (1953), 97–114Google Scholar. This article has been sadly neglected, although in the bibliographical essay attached to The World of Odysseus M. I. Finley remarks that it ‘is most suggestive and filled with insights’.

^{page 13 note 4} See Stanford, W.B., Hermathena, c (1965), 7–9.Google Scholar

^{page 13 note 5} Social Life in Greece from Homer to Menander, p. 69.