Unthinking The Greek Polis

Author : Kostas Vlassopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521188075

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Unthinking the Greek Polis by Kostas Vlassopoulos Pdf

This 2007 study explores how modern scholars came to write Greek history from a Eurocentric perspective and challenges orthodox readings of Greek history as part of the history of the West. Since the Greeks lacked a national state or a unified society, economy or culture, the polis has helped to create a homogenising national narrative. This book re-examines old polarities such as those between the Greek poleis and Eastern monarchies, or between the ancient consumer and the modern producer city, in order to show the fallacies of standard approaches. It argues for the relevance of Aristotle's concept of the polis, which is interpreted in an intriguing manner. Finally, it proposes an alternative way of looking at Greek history as part of a Mediterranean world-system. This interdisciplinary study engages with debates on globalisation, nationalism, Orientalism and history writing, while also debating developments in classical studies.

Author : Ko ̄stas Vlassopoulos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0511367694

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Unthinking the Greek Polis by Ko ̄stas Vlassopoulos Pdf

This text challenges orthodox readings of Greek history centred on the polis and proposes a broader approach.

Author : Kostas Vlassopoulos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857724960

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Politics by Kostas Vlassopoulos Pdf

Ancient Greece is famous as the civilization which 'gave' the world democracy. Democracy has in modern times become the rallying cry of liberation from supposed totalitarianism and dictatorship. And the desire by the western powers, especially America, to foment (or impose) democracy across the globe is one of the most powerful driving motors in present-day geopolitics: not least in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, a lively and well informed treatment of the nexus between politics in antiquity and political discourse in the modern era is both timely and apposite. As Kostas Vlassopoulos shows, much can be learned about the practice of politics from a comparative discussion of the classical and the contemporary. His starting point is that the value of looking back to a political system with different assumptions and elements can help us think, and even shape, what the future of modern politics might be. He discusses the contrasting political systems prevalent in the Greek city-states of Athens, Sparta and Corinth; tensions between democrats and oligarchs in Periclean Athens; the bitter rivalries which led to the Peloponnesian Wars in the fifth century BCE; and, the delicate balance of powers between people, senate and emperor in the hierarchical society of republican and latterly imperial Rome. Above all, the book shows how important and surprising the study of antiquity can be in reassessing and revaluating modern political debates.

Author : Johann P. Arnason,Kurt A. Raaflaub,Peter Wagner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118561676

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The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy by Johann P. Arnason,Kurt A. Raaflaub,Peter Wagner Pdf

The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries. Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis - city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government Offers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece Places the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world Reveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thought Written collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political science

Author : Kostas Vlassopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107244269

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Greeks and Barbarians by Kostas Vlassopoulos Pdf

This book is an ambitious synthesis of the social, economic, political and cultural interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in the Mediterranean world during the Archaic, Classical and Hellenistic periods. Instead of traditional and static distinctions between Greeks and Others, Professor Vlassopoulos explores the diversity of interactions between Greeks and non-Greeks in four parallel but interconnected worlds: the world of networks, the world of apoikiai ('colonies'), the Panhellenic world and the world of empires. These diverse interactions set into motion processes of globalisation; but the emergence of a shared material and cultural koine across the Mediterranean was accompanied by the diverse ways in which Greek and non-Greek cultures adopted and adapted elements of this global koine. The book explores the paradoxical role of Greek culture in the processes of ancient globalisation, as well as the peculiar way in which Greek culture was shaped by its interaction with non-Greek cultures.

Author : P. J. Rhodes
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444358582

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A History of the Classical Greek World by P. J. Rhodes Pdf

Thoroughly updated and revised, the second edition of this successful and widely praised textbook offers an account of the ‘classical’ period of Greek history, from the aftermath of the Persian Wars in 478 BC to the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC. Two important new chapters have been added, covering life and culture in the classical Greek world Features new pedagogical tools, including textboxes, and a comprehensive chronological table of the West, mainland Greece, and the Aegean Enlarged and additional maps and illustrative material Covers the history of an important period, including: the flourishing of democracy in Athens; the Peloponnesian war, and the conquests of Alexander the Great Focuses on the evidence for the period, and how the evidence is to be interpreted

Author : Lynette G. Mitchell,Peter John Rhodes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : City-states
ISBN : 0415620201

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The Development of the Polis in Archaic Greece by Lynette G. Mitchell,Peter John Rhodes Pdf

Beyond the historical development of the Greek polis, the authors ask questions about the civic institutions of ancient Greece as a whole, and their relationships to each other.

Author : Michael Lovano
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1022 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440837319

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The World of Ancient Greece [2 volumes] by Michael Lovano Pdf

This book opens the world of the ancient Greeks to all readers through easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding Greek high culture and daily life. The ancient Greeks provided the foundation for Western civilization. They made significant advances in science, mathematics, philosophy, literature, and government. While many readers might have heard of Plato and Aristotle, however, or be familiar with the classic works of Greek tragedy, most people know significantly less about daily life in the ancient Greek world. This encyclopedia opens the world of the ancient Greeks, spanning Greek history from the Bronze Age through Roman times, with an emphasis on the Classical and Hellenistic Eras. The encyclopedia provides roughly 270 easily accessible entries on topics essential to understanding everything from Greek high culture to daily life. These entries are grouped in topical sections on the arts, science and technology, politics and government, domestic life, and other subjects. Sidebars on particularly noteworthy people, places, and concepts provide related information, while primary documents allow readers to delve into the mindset and feelings of the ancient Greeks themselves. Extensive bibliographic references give curious readers direction for further research.

Author : Steve Walton,Paul Trebilco,David W. J. Gill
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Church history
ISBN : 9780802874511

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The Urban World and the First Christians by Steve Walton,Paul Trebilco,David W. J. Gill Pdf

In the tradition of The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks, this book explores the relationship between the earliest Christians and the city environment. Experts in classics, early Christianity, and human geography analyze the growth, development, and self-understanding of the early Christian movement in urban settings. The book's contributors first look at how the urban physical, cultural, and social environments of the ancient Mediterranean basin affected the ways in which early Christianity progressed. They then turn to how the earliest Christians thought and theologized in their engagement with cities. With a rich variety of expertise and scholarship, The Urban World and the First Christians is an important contribution to the understanding of early Christianity.

Author : James W. Barker,Anthony Le Donne,Joel N. Lohr
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781612494975

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Found in Translation by James W. Barker,Anthony Le Donne,Joel N. Lohr Pdf

Found in Translation is at once a themed volume on the translation of ancient Jewish texts and a Festschrift for Leonard J. Greenspoon, the Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor in Jewish Civilization and professor of classical and near Eastern studies and of theology at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. Greenspoon has made significant contributions to the study of Jewish biblical translations, particularly the ancient translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, known as the Septuagint. This volume comprises an internationally renowned group of scholars presenting a wide range of original essays on Bible translation, the influence of culture on biblical translation, Bible translations' reciprocal influence on culture, and the translation of various Jewish texts and collections, especially the Septuagint. Volume editors have painstakingly planned Found in Translation to have the broadest scope of any current work on Jewish biblical translation to reflect Greenspoon's broad impact on the field throughout an august career.

Author : Dick Geary,Stephen Hodkinson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443838092

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Slaves and Religions in Graeco-Roman Antiquity and Modern Brazil by Dick Geary,Stephen Hodkinson Pdf

Slaves have never been mere passive victims of slavery. Typically, they have responded with ingenuity to their violent separation from their native societies, using a variety of strategies to create new social networks and cultures. Religion has been a major arena for such slave cultural strategies. Through participation in religious and ritual activities, slaves have generated important elements of identity, shared humanity, and even resistance, within their lives. This volume presents papers from a conference of the University of Nottingham’s Institute for the Study of Slavery – the only UK centre studying its history from antiquity to the present. It breaks new ground by juxtaposing slave strategies within the diverse religious cultures of Graeco-Roman antiquity and modern Brazil. After a wide-ranging historiographical survey, eleven experts examine how in both societies slave religious activities involved both constraints and opportunities, shedding particular new light on the neglected religious strategies of Graeco-Roman slaves.

Author : Franco De Angelis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780199721559

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Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily by Franco De Angelis Pdf

Ancient Greek migrants in Sicily produced societies and economies that both paralleled and differed from their homeland. Explanations for these similarities and differences have been hotly debated. On the one hand, some scholars have viewed the ancient Greeks as one in a long line of migrants who were shaped by Sicily and its inhabitants. On the other hand, other scholars have argued that the Greeks acted as the main source of innovation and achievement in the culture of ancient Sicily, a culture that was still removed from that of mainland Greece. Neither of these positions is completely satisfactory. What is lacking in this debate is a basic framework for understanding ancient Sicily's social and economic history. Archaic and Classical Greek Sicily represents the first ever systematic and comprehensive attempt to synthesize the historical and archaeological evidence, and to deploy it to test the various historical models proposed over the past two centuries. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach that combines classical and prehistoric studies, texts and material culture, and a variety of methods and theories to put the history of Greek Sicily on a completely new footing. While Sicily and Greece had conjoined histories from the start, their relationship was not one of periphery and center or of colony and state in any sense, but of an interdependent and mutually enriching diaspora. At the same time, local conditions and peoples, including Phoenician migrants, also shaped the evolution of Sicilian Greek societies and economies. This book reveals and explains the similarities and differences between developments in Greek Sicily and the mainland, and brings greater clarity to the parts played by locals and immigrants in ancient Sicily's impressive achievements.

Author : David Anthony Robison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Greece
ISBN : OCLC:1430586483

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The nature of the Greek polis by David Anthony Robison Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004352612

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Citizens in the Graeco-Roman World by Anonim Pdf

The twelve studies contained in this volume discuss some key-aspects of citizenship from its emergence in Archaic Greece until the Roman period before AD 212, when Roman citizenship was extended to all the free inhabitants of the Empire. The book explores the processes of formation and re-formation of citizen bodies, the integration of foreigners, the question of multiple-citizenship holders and the political and philosophical thought on ancient citizenship. The aim is that of offering a multidisciplinary approach to the subject, ranging from literature to history and philosophy, as well as encouraging the reader to integrate the traditional institutional and legalistic approach to citizenship with a broader perspective, which encompasses aspects such as identity formation, performative aspect and discourse of citizenship.

Author : Melanie Jonasch
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789253573

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The Fight for Greek Sicily by Melanie Jonasch Pdf

The island of Sicily was a highly contested area throughout much of its history. Among the first to exert strong influence on its political, cultural, infrastructural, and demographic developments were the two major decentralized civilizations of the first millennium BCE: the Phoenicians and the Greeks. While trade and cultural exchange preceded their permanent presence, it was the colonizing movement that brought territorial competition and political power struggles on the island to a new level. The history of six centuries of colonization is replete with accounts of conflict and warfare that include cross-cultural confrontations, as well as interstate hostilities, domestic conflicts, and government violence. This book is not concerned with realities from the battlefield or questions of military strategy and tactics, but rather offers a broad collection of archaeological case studies and historical essays that analyze how political competition, strategic considerations, and violent encounters substantially affected rural and urban environments, the island’s heterogeneous communities, and their social practices. These contributions, originating from a workshop in 2018, combine expertise from the fields of archaeology, ancient history, and philology. The focus on a specific time period and the limited geographic area of Greek Sicily allows for the thorough investigation and discussion of various forms of organized societal violence and their consequences on the developments in society and landscape.