Polis And Revolution

Author : Julia L. Shear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : OCLC:1342133448

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Polis and Revolution by Julia L. Shear Pdf

"During the turbulent last years of the fifth century BC, Athens twice suffered the overthrow of democracy and the subsequent establishment of oligarchic regimes. In an in-depth treatment of both political revolutions, Julia Shear examines how the Athenians responded to these events, at the level both of the individual and of the corporate group. Interdisciplinary in approach, this account brings epigraphical and archaeological evidence to bear on a discussion which until now has largely been based on texts. Dr Shear particularly focuses on the recreation of democracy and the city, both ritually and physically, in the aftermath of the coups and demonstrates that, whilst reconciliation after civil strife is difficult and contentious, it is also crucial for rebuilding a united society. Theories of remembering and forgetting are applied and offer a new way of understanding the dynamics in Athens at this time"--

Author : Julia L. Shear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521760447

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Polis and Revolution by Julia L. Shear Pdf

This book explores how democracy in Athens was recreated and the city rebuilt following the oligarchic revolutions of the fifth century BC.

Author : Donald Kagan,Gregory F. Viggiano
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691168456

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Men of Bronze by Donald Kagan,Gregory F. Viggiano Pdf

A major contribution to the debate over ancient Greek warfare by some of the world's leading scholars Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was the driving force behind a revolution in Greek social, political, and cultural institutions. Throughout the twentieth century scholars developed and refined this grand hoplite narrative with the help of archaeology. But over the past thirty years scholars have criticized nearly every major tenet of this orthodoxy. Indeed, the revisionists have persuaded many specialists that the evidence demands a new interpretation of the hoplite narrative and a rewriting of early Greek history. Men of Bronze gathers leading scholars to advance the current debate and bring it to a broader audience of ancient historians, classicists, archaeologists, and general readers. After explaining the historical context and significance of the hoplite question, the book assesses and pushes forward the debate over the traditional hoplite narrative and demonstrates why it is at a crucial turning point. Instead of reaching a consensus, the contributors have sharpened their differences, providing new evidence, explanations, and theories about the origin, nature, strategy, and tactics of the hoplite phalanx and its effect on Greek culture and the rise of the polis. The contributors include Paul Cartledge, Lin Foxhall, John Hale, Victor Davis Hanson, Donald Kagan, Peter Krentz, Kurt Raaflaub, Adam Schwartz, Anthony Snodgrass, Hans van Wees, and Gregory Viggiano.

Author : Shlomo Berger
Publisher : Franz Steiner Verlag
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 3515059598

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Revolution and Society in Greek Sicily and Southern Italy by Shlomo Berger Pdf

The analysis of a Greek political phenomenon within the confines of the so-called colonial city-states of Sicily and Southern Italy is the theme of the present book. On the basis of detailed case-studies covering the revolutions in cities like Croton, Cumae, Acragas and Syracuse, the following subjects are dealt with: social stratification and political institutions, the massive presence of foreigners and non-Greeks within the borders of the polis, the role of mercenaries in the local armies and in city life. An apart chapter is dedicated to the technique of the coup d'�tat, showing how it was determined by the peculiarities of the Greek city-state.

Author : Hannah Arendt
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Revolutions
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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On Revolution by Hannah Arendt Pdf

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139488495

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Ancient Greek Political Thought in Practice by Paul Cartledge Pdf

Ancient Greece was a place of tremendous political experiment and innovation, and it was here too that the first serious political thinkers emerged. Using carefully selected case-studies, in this book Professor Cartledge investigates the dynamic interaction between ancient Greek political thought and practice from early historic times to the early Roman Empire. Of concern throughout are three major issues: first, the relationship of political thought and practice; second, the relevance of class and status to explaining political behaviour and thinking; third, democracy - its invention, development and expansion, and extinction, prior to its recent resuscitation and even apotheosis. In addition, monarchy in various forms and at different periods and the peculiar political structures of Sparta are treated in detail over a chronological range extending from Homer to Plutarch. The book provides an introduction to the topic for all students and non-specialists who appreciate the continued relevance of ancient Greece to political theory and practice today.

Author : Josiah Ober
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691001906

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The Athenian Revolution by Josiah Ober Pdf

Eleven essays on Athenian democracy written and published between 1983 and 1993.

Author : David A. Blome
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501747625

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Greek Warfare beyond the Polis by David A. Blome Pdf

Greek Warfare beyond the Polis assesses the nature and broader significance of warfare in the mountains of classical Greece. Based on detailed reconstructions of four unconventional military encounters, David A. Blome argues that the upland Greeks of the classical mainland developed defensive strategies to guard against external aggression. These strategies enabled wide-scale, sophisticated actions in response to invasions, but they did not require the direction of a central, federal government. Blome brings these strategies to the forefront by driving ancient Greek military history and ancient Greek scholarship "beyond the polis" into dialogue with each other. As he contends, beyond-the-polis scholarship has done much to expand and refine our understanding of the ancient Greek world, but it has overemphasized the importance of political institutions in emergent federal states and has yet to treat warfare involving upland Greeks systematically or in depth. In contrast, Greek Warfare beyond the Polis scrutinizes the sociopolitical roots of warfare from beyond the polis, which are often neglected in military histories of the Greek city-state. By focusing on the significance of warfare vis-à-vis the sociopolitical development of upland polities, Blome shows that although the more powerful states of the classical Greek world were dismissive or ignorant of the military capabilities of upland Greeks, the reverse was not the case. The Phocians, Aetolians, Acarnanians, and Arcadians in circa 490–362 BCE were well aware of the arrogant attitudes of their aggressive neighbors, and as highly efficient political entities, they exploited these attitudes to great effect.

Author : Joseph A. Almeida
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789047402138

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Justice as an Aspect of the Polis Idea in Solon's Political Poems by Joseph A. Almeida Pdf

This book examines the meaning of justice or dike in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The first two chapters argue that neither standard historical nor literary treatments have provided an adequate foundation for understanding Solon’s dike. The main defect lies in an inability to connect Solon’s concrete political work with his poetic perceptions. The book’s central proposal is that the polis idea, from new classical archaeology, provides an objective standard for an interpretation of Solon’s dike, which remedies this defect. The third chapter sets forth the polis idea, which becomes the measure for an examination, in the final two chapters, of Solon’s view of dike. The book thus exhibits an interdisciplinary approach to Archaic poetry.

Author : Christopher Rowe,Malcolm Schofield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521481368

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The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Political Thought by Christopher Rowe,Malcolm Schofield Pdf

A definitive reference work on Greek and Roman political thought from the age of Homer to late antiquity, first published in 2000.

Author : Greg Anderson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0472113208

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The Athenian Experiment by Greg Anderson Pdf

This book rewrites the political and public history of Athens

Author : John Marincola
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748643974

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Greek Notions of the Past in the Archaic and Classical Eras by John Marincola Pdf

This volume in The Edinburgh Leventis Studies series collects the papers presented at the sixth A. G. Leventis conference organised under the auspices of the Department of Classics at the University of Edinburgh. As with earlier volumes, it engages with new research and new approaches to the Greek past, and brings the fruits of that research to a wider audience. Although Greek historians were fundamental in the enterprise of preserving the memory of great deeds in antiquity, they were not alone in their interest in the past. The Greeks themselves, quite apart from their historians and in a variety of non-historiographical media, were constantly creating pasts for themselves that answered to the needs - political, social, moral and even religious - of their society. In this volume eighteen scholars discuss the variety of ways in which the Greeks constructed de-constructed, engaged with, alluded to, and relied on their pasts whether it was in the poetry of Homer, in the victory odes of Pindar, in tragedy and comedy on the Athenian stage, in their pictorial art, in their political assemblies, or in their religious practices. What emerges is a comprehensive overview of the importance of and presence of the past at every level of Greek society. In the final chapter the three discussants present at the conference (Simon Goldhill, Christopher Pelling and Suzanne Said) survey the contributions to the volume, summarise its overall contributions as well as indicate new directions that further scholarship might follow.

Author : Tina Chanter,Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780791482643

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Revolt, Affect, Collectivity by Tina Chanter,Ewa Plonowska Ziarek Pdf

Explores how the concept of revolution permeates and unifies Kristeva’s body of work.

Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105044390420

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United States of America, 1776-1976: Official Documents of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission by American Revolution Bicentennial Commission Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary,United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 2
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112047556011

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The Operation of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary,United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee No. 2 Pdf