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Author: Matthew Robert Christ
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-10-08
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1107029775
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the behavior of Athenians in the classical period, arguing that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens.
Author: Matthew Robert Christ
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781139776998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book argues that, contrary to how Athenians idealized themselves, they felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens and did not feel strongly obliged as a group to help peoples of other states"--
Author: Alex Gottesman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-02
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1107041686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines 'informal' politics, such as gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more 'formal' politics of assembly and courts.
Author: Matteo Barbato
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2020-05-28
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1474466443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Matthew R. Christ
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1108495761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines how Xenophon instructs his elite readers concerning the values and skills needed to lead the Athenian democracy.
Author: Cynthia Farrar
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521375849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDr Farrar argues that the development of political theory accompanied the growth of democracy at Athens in the fifth century BC. By analysing the writings of Protagoras, Thucydides and Democritus in the context of political developments and speculation about the universe, she reveals the existence of a distinctive approach to the characterisation of democratic order, and in doing so demonstrates the virtues of Thucydides' historical conception of politics.
Author: Adriaan Lanni
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-08-11
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 1316715116
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe classical Athenian 'state' had almost no formal coercive apparatus to ensure order or compliance with law: there was no professional police force or public prosecutor, and nearly every step in the legal process depended on private initiative. And yet Athens was a remarkably peaceful and well-ordered society by both ancient and contemporary standards. Why? Law and Order in Ancient Athens draws on contemporary legal scholarship to explore how order was maintained in Athens. Lanni argues that law and formal legal institutions played a greater role in maintaining order than is generally acknowledged. The legal system did encourage compliance with law, but not through the familiar deterrence mechanism of imposing sanctions for violating statutes. Lanni shows how formal institutions facilitated the operation of informal social control in a society that was too large and diverse to be characterized as a 'face-to-face community' or 'close-knit group'.
Author: Gunther Martin
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 0198713851
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs a speechwriter, orator, and politician, Demosthenes captured, embodied, and shaped his time. This Handbook explores the many facets of his life, work, and time, giving particular weight to his social and historical context and thereby illustrating the interplay and mutual influence between his rhetoric and the environment from which it emerged.
Author: Josiah Ober
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-11-29
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 0520380177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTracing practical reason from its origins to its modern and contemporary permutations The Greek discovery of practical reason, as the skilled performance of strategic thinking in public and private affairs, was an intellectual breakthrough that remains both a feature of and a bug in our modern world. Countering arguments that rational choice-making is a contingent product of modernity, The Greeks and the Rational traces the long history of theorizing rationality back to ancient Greece. In this book, Josiah Ober explores how ancient Greek sophists, historians, and philosophers developed sophisticated and systematic ideas about practical reason. At the same time, they recognized its limits—that not every decision can be reduced to mechanistic calculations of optimal outcomes. Ober finds contemporary echoes of this tradition in the application of game theory to political science, economics, and business management. The Greeks and the Rational offers a striking revisionist history with widespread implications for the study of ancient Greek civilization, the history of thought, and human rationality itself.
Author: Robert Holschuh Simmons
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2023-02-09
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1350214507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style based on personal connection became ingrained in this period, drawing on close study of several genres of literature of the late 5th and early-to-mid 4th centuries BCE. Such connection was particularly effective with lower classes of Athenians, who had been accustomed to being excluded from politicians' friendship-based approaches to coalition-building. Comedies of Aristophanes (particularly Knights), tragedies of Euripides (particularly Iphigenia in Aulis), and historical biographies of Xenophon (particularly Anabasis and Cyropaedia) depict demagogues, or characters exhibiting demagogic characteristics, using a style of outreach to members of neglected classes that involved provoking feelings of friendship with individuals in these classes, whether the demagogues and individual supporters actually interacted closely or not. These leaders employed techniques, such as propinquity, homophily, and transitivity, that both contemporary sociologists (and, in some cases, Aristotle) recognize as effective for such purposes. Particular attention is paid to discrepancies in Aristophanes' Knights between how the demagogue Cleon is hyperbolically portrayed (as a pederastic lover of the Athenian people) and how his language and actions make him out – as a friend of theirs, as he likely portrayed himself.
