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Author : Greg Anderson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0472113208
This book rewrites the political and public history of Athens
Author : Greg Anderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1074637190
Author : Jennifer Tolbert Roberts
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400821327
The Classical Athenians were the first to articulate and implement the notion that ordinary citizens of no particular affluence or education could make responsible political decisions. For this reason, reactions to Athenian democracy have long provided a prime Rorschach test for political thought. Whether praising Athens's government as the legitimizing ancestor of modern democracies or condemning it as mob rule, commentators throughout history have revealed much about their own notions of politics and society. In this book, Jennifer Roberts charts responses to Athenian democracy from Athens itself through the twentieth century, exploring a debate that touches upon historiography, ethics, political science, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, gender studies, and educational theory.
Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1629975427
Author : Anthony M. Snodgrass
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1981-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520043732
Until quite recently, it has been the accepted view that the Archaic period of Greek history was by definition merely a prelude to the Classical period, an era regarded as unsurpassed in its literary, intellectual, artistic, and political achievements. Lately, however, historians and archaeologists have undertaken a major reappraisal of their subject. Professor Snodgrass shows how the supremacy of Classical Greece would have been impossible without the preceding centuries of the Archaic period. It established the economic basis of Greek society; it drew the political map of the Greek world in a form that was to endure for four centuries; it set up the forms of state that were to determine Greek political history; it provided the interests and goals, not merely for Greek but for Western art as a whole, which were to be pursued over the next two and a half millennia; it gave Greece in the Homeric epics an ideal of behavior and a memento of past glory to sustain it; and it provided much of the basis of Greek religion. "Archaic Greece" gives a broad cultural history of the period. -- From publisher's description.
Author : Julia L. Shear
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521760447
This book explores how democracy in Athens was recreated and the city rebuilt following the oligarchic revolutions of the fifth century BC.
Author : Robert Garland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1629975435
Author : Friedrich Solmsen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400871209
Generally known for its advanced, often radical suggestions of reform in politics, religion, morality, and human behavior, the Greek Enlightenment has long been studied in terms of its doctrines and theories. To understand the environment in which the new ideas flourished and their impact, Friedrich Solmsen explores the novel intellectual methods that developed during the period. A variety of new modes of thought was introduced at this time or, if known before, was applied with delight in experimentation. Among those that Friedrich Solmsen examines are new methods of argumentation: persuasion aimed at the control of man's emotions; Utopian speculation; experiments with language; and the emergence of a secular psychology and its use in the reconstruction of human motives and historical events. Concentrating on the work of nonphilosophical authors such as the historian Thucydides and the tragedian Euripides, the author presents a portrait of a restless and spirited age engaged in an adventure of reason. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Robert J. Littman
Publisher : Harcourt Brace College Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : History
ISBN : 0155296841
Author : Paulin Ismard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674660076
Challenging the modern belief that democracy and bondage are incompatible, Paulin Ismard directs our attention to ancient Athens, where the functioning of civic government depended on skilled, knowledgeable experts who were literally public servants—slaves owned by the city-state rather than by private citizens.
Author : Alexander Borodin
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783656262114
Essay from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Political Theory and the History of Ideas Journal, grade: 75, University of Essex (Department of Goverment ), language: English, abstract: In many ways Athenian assembly democracy constitutes a genuine as well as extreme model in democratic thought. This has to do on the one hand with its remarkable institutional features and on the other hand with its extensive practices of public participation. In what will follow, we should therefore at first look at the structure and the interrelations of the key organs of the Athenian system as a form of government. Our understanding of the mechanisms of these institutions will serve us as a basis to enquire critically into their actual performance as well as their significance for Athenian democracy as a whole. Investigating the principles behind the institutions such as selection by lot, very short periods of office or reliance on public opinion will then allow us to reflect on their implications for modern discourse on democratic ideas. It is my intention to illustrate how the Athenian system and particularly the broad public deliberation it relied on, exemplifies the necessary criteria which have to be achieved in order to strengthen rather than to undermine democracy. Whereas the Athenian model needs to be limited in some respects, for instance to avoid violations of the rule of law, it has to be furthered in other respects such as the enlightenment of the wide public.
Author : Mark H. Munn
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-07-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520243491
Among maternal deities of the Greek pantheon, the Mother of the Gods was a paradox. Conflict and resolution were played out symbolically, Munn shows, and the goddess of Lydian tyranny was eventually accepted by the Athenians as the Mother of the Gods and a symbol of their own sovereignty.
Author : Gregory Crane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520918740
Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.
Author : Paul Cartledge,Paul Millett,Sitta von Reden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0521525934
'Kosmos' is the word the ancient Greeks used for human social order. It has therefore a special application to the Greeks' peculiar social and political unit of communal life that they called the 'polis'. Of the many hundreds of such units in classical Greece the best documented and the most complex was democratic Athens. The purpose of this collective 1998 volume is to re-evaluate the foundations of classical Athens' highly successful experiment in communal social existence. Topics addressed include religion and ritualization, political friendship and enmity, gender and sexuality, sports and litigation, and economic and symbolic exchange. The book aims to make a major contribution, theoretical as well as empirical, towards understanding how the social order of community life may be sustained and enhanced.
Author : David M. Pritchard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009413060
In classical Athens, a funeral speech was delivered for dead combatants almost every year, the most famous being that by Pericles in 430 BC. In 1981, Nicole Loraux transformed our understanding of this genre. Her The Invention of Athens showed how it reminded the Athenians who they were as a people. Loraux demonstrated how each speech helped them to maintain the same self-identity for two centuries. But The Invention of Athens was far from complete. This volume brings together top-ranked experts to finish Loraux's book. It answers the important questions about the numerous surviving funeral speeches that she ignored. It also undertakes a comparison of the funeral oration with other genres that is missing in her famous book. What emerges is a speech that had a much greater political impact than Loraux thought. This volume puts the study of war in Athenian culture on a completely new footing.
