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Author : Simon Goldhill
Release : 1999-06-13
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 477/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy by : Simon Goldhill
Download or read book Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy written by Simon Goldhill. This book was released on 1999-06-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1999 book discusses the ways performance is central to the practice and ideology of Athenian democracy.
Author : Vincent Farenga
Release : 2006-05-29
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 784/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece by : Vincent Farenga
Download or read book Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece written by Vincent Farenga. This book was released on 2006-05-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2006 study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who performed 'scripts' of justice in early Iron Age, archaic and classical Greece. From the earlier periods, these include Homer's Achilles and Odysseus as heroic individuals who are also prototypical citizens, and Solon the lawgiver, writing the scripts of statute law and the jury trial. In democratic Athens, the focus turns to dialogues between a citizen's moral autonomy and political obligation in Aeschyleon tragedy, Pericles' citizenship paradigm, Antiphon's sophistic thought and forensic oratory, the political leadership of Alcibiades and Socrates' moral individualism.
Author : Matteo Barbato
Release : 2020-05-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 443/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Ideology of Democratic Athens by : Matteo Barbato
Download or read book Ideology of Democratic Athens written by Matteo Barbato. This book was released on 2020-05-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
Author : Robin Osborne
Release : 2010-05-06
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 215/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Athens and Athenian Democracy by : Robin Osborne
Download or read book Athens and Athenian Democracy written by Robin Osborne. This book was released on 2010-05-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constructs a distinctive view of classical Athens, a view which takes seriously the evidence of archaeology and of art history.
Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Release : 2015-11-03
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 029/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Peasant-Citizen and Slave by : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Download or read book Peasant-Citizen and Slave written by Ellen Meiksins Wood. This book was released on 2015-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture. From a survey of historical writings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the focus of which distorted later debates, Wood goes on to take issue with influential arguments, such as those of G.E.M. de Ste Croix, about the importance of slavery in agricultural production. The social, political and cultural influence of the peasant-citizen is explored in a way which questions some of the most cherished conventions of Marxist and non-Marxist historiography.
