Debating The Athenian Cultural Revolution
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Debating The Athenian Cultural Revolution
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Author : Robin Osborne
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2007-11-29
Debating The Athenian Cultural Revolution written by Robin Osborne and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-29 with History categories.
Examines the changes in Athenian culture at the end of the fifth century BC.
Athens And Athenian Democracy
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Author : Robin Osborne
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-05-06
Athens And Athenian Democracy written by Robin Osborne and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-06 with History categories.
This book constructs a distinctive view of classical Athens, a view which takes seriously the evidence of archaeology and of art history.
Rethinking Revolutions Through Ancient Greece
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Author : Simon Goldhill
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006-09-28
Rethinking Revolutions Through Ancient Greece written by Simon Goldhill and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-09-28 with History categories.
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Greece And The Augustan Cultural Revolution
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Author : Antony Spawforth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Greece And The Augustan Cultural Revolution written by Antony Spawforth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Acculturation categories.
"This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial-Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate"--
Polis And Revolution
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Author : Julia L. Shear
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-04-21
Polis And Revolution written by Julia L. Shear and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-21 with History categories.
This book explores how democracy in Athens was recreated and the city rebuilt following the oligarchic revolutions of the fifth century BC.
War Democracy And Culture In Classical Athens
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Author : David Pritchard
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2010-12-23
War Democracy And Culture In Classical Athens written by David Pritchard and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-23 with History categories.
Analyses how the democracy of the classical Athenians revolutionized military practices and underwrote their unprecedented commitment to war-making.
The Routledge Handbook Of Identity And The Environment In The Classical And Medieval Worlds
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Author : Rebecca Futo Kennedy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-01-08
The Routledge Handbook Of Identity And The Environment In The Classical And Medieval Worlds written by Rebecca Futo Kennedy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-01-08 with History categories.
The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds explores how environment was thought to shape ethnicity and identity, discussing developments in early natural philosophy and historical ethnographies. Defining ‘environment’ broadly to include not only physical but also cultural environments, natural and constructed, the volume considers the multifarious ways in which environment was understood to shape the culture and physical characteristics of peoples, as well as how the ancients manipulated their environments to achieve a desired identity. This diverse collection includes studies not only of the Greco-Roman world, but also ancient China and the European, Jewish and Arab inheritors and transmitters of classical thought. In recent years, work in this subject has been confined mostly to the discussion of texts that reflect an approach to the barbarian as ‘other’. The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds takes the discussion of ethnicity on a fresh course, contextualising the concept of the barbarian within rational discourses such as cartography, medicine, and mathematical sciences, an approach that allows us to more clearly discern the varied and nuanced approaches to ethnic identity which abounded in antiquity. The innovative and thought-provoking material in this volume realises new directions in the study of identity in the Classical and Medieval worlds.
Competition In The Ancient World
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Author : Nick Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Classical Press of Wales
Release Date : 2010-12-31
Competition In The Ancient World written by Nick Fisher and has been published by Classical Press of Wales this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-31 with History categories.
Ancient peoples, like modern, spent much of their lives engaged in and thinking about competitions: both organised competitions with rules, audiences and winners, such as Olympic and gladiatorial games, and informal, indefinite, often violent, competition for fundamental goals such as power, wealth and honour. The varied papers in this book form a case for viewing competition for superiority as a major force in ancient history, including the earliest human societies and the Assyrian and Aztec empires. Papers on Greek history explore the idea of competitiveness as peculiarly Greek, the intense and complex quarrel at the heart of Homer's Iliad, and the importance of formal competitions in the creation of new political and social identities in archaic Sicyon and classical Athens. Papers on the Roman world shed fresh light on Republican elections, through a telling parallel from Renaissance Venice, on modes of competitive display of wealth and power evident in elite villas in Italy in the imperial period, and on the ambiguities in the competitive self-representations of athletes, sophists and emperors.
The Athenian Revolution
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Author : Josiah Ober
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-01
The Athenian Revolution written by Josiah Ober and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-01 with History categories.
Where did "democracy" come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "power of the people" crystallized in a revolutionary uprising by the ordinary citizens of Athens in 508-507 B.C. He then examines the consequences of the development of direct democracy for upper-and lower-class citizens, for dissident Athenian intellectuals, and for those who were denied citizenship under the new regime (women, slaves, resident foreigners), as well as for the general development of Greek history. When the citizens suddenly took power into their own hands, they changed the cultural and social landscape of Greece, thereby helping to inaugurate the Classical Era. Democracy led to fundamental adjustments in the basic structures of Athenian society, altered the forms and direction of political thinking, and sparked a series of dramatic reorientations in international relations. It quickly made Athens into the most powerful Greek city-state, but it also fatally undermined the traditional Greek rules of warfare. It stimulated the development of the Western tradition of political theorizing and encouraged a new conception of justice that has striking parallels to contemporary theories of rights. But Athenians never embraced the notions of inherency and inalienability that have placed the concept of rights at the center of modern political thought. Thus the play of power that constituted life in democratic Athens is revealed as at once strangely familiar and desperately foreign, and the values sustaining the Athenian political community as simultaneously admirable and terrifying.
Athenian Democracy
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2023-06-30
Athenian Democracy written by and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-06-30 with History categories.
This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of primary texts on Athenian democracy, which flourished in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, with an accompanying glossary and introductory notes. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers. The texts selected include extracts from the important literary sources as well as some key inscriptions, some of which were previously difficult for students to access.