Lessons from the Past
Lessons from the Past

Author: Frances Anne Pownall

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2010-02-09

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0472025678

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Because of the didactic nature of the historical genre, many scholars ancient and modern have seen connections between history and rhetoric. So far, discussion has centered on fifth-century authors -- Herodotus and Thucydides, along with the sophists and early philosophers. Pownall extends the focus of this discussion into an important period. By focusing on key intellectuals and historians of the fourth century (Plato and the major historians -- Xenophon, Ephorus, and Theopompus), she examines how these prose writers created an aristocratic version of the past as an alternative to the democratic version of the oratorical tradition. Frances Pownall is Professor of History and Classics, University of Alberta.

Seeing with Free Eyes
Seeing with Free Eyes

Author: Marlene K. Sokolon

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Published: 2021-08-01

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 1438484720

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Responding to Plato's challenge to defend the political thought of poetic sources, Marlene K. Sokolon explores Euripides's understanding of justice in nine of his surviving tragedies. Drawing on Greek mythological stories, Euripides examines several competing ideas of justice, from the ancient ethic of helping friends and harming enemies to justice as merit and relativist views of might makes right. Reflecting Dionysus, the paradoxical god of Greek theater, Euripides reveals the human experience of understanding justice to be limited, multifaceted, and contradictory. His approach underscores the value of understanding justice not only as a rational idea or theory, but also as an integral part of the continuous and unfinished dialogue of political community. As the first book devoted to Euripidean justice, Seeing with Free Eyes adds to the growing interest in how citizens in democracies use storytelling genres to think about important political questions, such as "What is justice?"

Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa
Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa

Author: Anna Lydia Motto

Publisher: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers

Published: 1999-01-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9780865164543

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John Scott Campbell, "Pisspots and Pumpkins: Three Notes to the Apocolocyntosis"; Mark Morford, "The Dual Citizenship of the Roman Stoics"; Jo-Ann Shelton, "Elephants, Pompey, and the Reports of Popular Displeasure in 55 BC"; Daniel R. White, "Seneca and the Empire of Signs"