The Greek Discovery Of Politics
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The Greek Discovery Of Politics
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Author : Christian Meier
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1990
The Greek Discovery Of Politics written by Christian Meier and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with History categories.
Why the Greeks? How did it happen that these people--out of all Mediterranean societies--developed democratic systems of government? The outstanding German historian of the ancient world, Christian Meier, reconstructs the process of political thinking in Greek culture that led to democracy. He demonstrates that the civic identity of the Athenians was a direct precondition for the practical reality of this form of government. Meier shows how the structure of Greek communal life gave individuals a civic role and discusses a crucial reform that institutionalized the idea of equality before the law. In Greek drama--specifically Aeschylus' Oresteia--he finds reflections of the ascendancy of civil law and of a politicizing of life in the city-state. He examines the role of the leader as well as citizen participation in Athenian democracy and describes an ancient equivalent of the idea of social progress. He also contrasts the fifth-century Greek political world with today's world, drawing revealing comparisons. The Greek Discovery of Politics is important reading for ancient historians, classicists, political scientists, and anyone interested in the history of political thought or in the culture of ancient Greece.
The Discovery Of Freedom In Ancient Greece
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Author : Kurt Raaflaub
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2004-02
The Discovery Of Freedom In Ancient Greece written by Kurt Raaflaub and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02 with History categories.
Although there is constant conflict over its meanings and limits, political freedom itself is considered a fundamental and universal value throughout the modern world. For most of human history, however, this was not the case. In this book, Kurt Raaflaub asks the essential question: when, why, and under what circumstances did the concept of freedom originate? To find out, Raaflaub analyses ancient Greek texts from Homer to Thucydides in their social and political contexts. Archaic Greece, he concludes, had little use for the idea of political freedom; the concept arose instead during the great confrontation between Greeks and Persians in the early fifth century BCE. Raaflaub then examines the relationship of freedom with other concepts, such as equality, citizenship, and law, and pursues subsequent uses of the idea—often, paradoxically, as a tool of domination, propaganda, and ideology. Raaflaub's book thus illuminates both the history of ancient Greek society and the evolution of one of humankind's most important values, and will be of great interest to anyone who wants to understand the conceptual fabric that still shapes our world views.
Polis Politics
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Author : Pernille Flensted-Jensen
language : de
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
Release Date : 2000
Polis Politics written by Pernille Flensted-Jensen and has been published by Museum Tusculanum Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with History categories.
Contains 35 articles devoted to different aspects of the Greek polis and is intended not only as a present for Mogens Herman Hansen on his sixtieth birthday, but also as a way of thanking him for his significant contributions to the field of Greek history over the past three decades.
The Political Institutions Of The Ancient Greeks
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Author : Basil Edward Hammond
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
The Political Institutions Of The Ancient Greeks written by Basil Edward Hammond and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Greece categories.
Tyranny And Political Culture In Ancient Greece
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Author : James F. McGlew
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1993
Tyranny And Political Culture In Ancient Greece written by James F. McGlew and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with History categories.
Resistance to the tyrant was an essential stage in the development of the Greek city-state. McGlew (classics, Allegheny College) examines the significance of changes in the Greek political vocabulary that came about as a result of the history of ancient tyrants. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Fear Of Diversity
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Author : Arlene W. Saxonhouse
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1995-05
Fear Of Diversity written by Arlene W. Saxonhouse and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-05 with History categories.
This wide-ranging and provocative book locates the origin of political science in the everyday world of ancient Greek life, thought, and culture. Arlene Saxonhouse contends that the Greeks, confronted by the puzzling diversity of the physical world, sought an unseen and unifying force that would constrain and explain it. This drive toward unity did more than place the mind over the senses: it led the Greeks to play down the very real differences - in particular the female, the family, and sexuality - in both their political and personal lives. While the dramatists and Plato captured the tragic consequences of trying to do so, it was not until Aristotle and his Politics did the Greek world - and its heirs - have a true science of politics, one capable of embracing diversity and accommodating conflict. Much of the book's force derives from Saxonhouse's masterful interweaving of Greek philosophy and drama, her juxtaposition of the thought of the pre-Socratics, Plato, and other philosophers to the cultural life revealed by such dramatists as Aristophanes and Aeschylus. Her approach opens up fresh understandings of such issues as the Greeks' fear of the feminine and their attempts to ignore the demands that gender, reproduction, and the family inevitably make on the individual and the family. The Fear of Diversity represents an important contribution to political philosophy, classics, and gender studies.
The Greek Slogan Of Freedom And Early Roman Politics In Greece
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Author : Sviatoslav Dmitriev
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-24
The Greek Slogan Of Freedom And Early Roman Politics In Greece written by Sviatoslav Dmitriev and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-24 with History categories.
This book elucidates the many uses of the slogan of freedom by ancient Greeks, beginning with the Peloponnesian war and continuing throughout the Hellenistic period, and shows in detail how the Romans appropriated and adjusted Greek political vocabulary and practices to establish the pax Romana over the Mediterranean world.
The Emergence Of Greek Democracy
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Author : William George Grieve Forrest
language : en
Publisher: London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Release Date : 1966
The Emergence Of Greek Democracy written by William George Grieve Forrest and has been published by London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Greece categories.
Democracy
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Author : Paul Cartledge
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-03-24
Democracy written by Paul Cartledge and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-24 with History categories.
Democracy is either aspired to as a goal or cherished as a birthright by billions of people throughout the world today — and has been been for over a century. But what does it mean? And how has its meaning changed since it was first coined in ancient Greece? Democracy: A Life is a biography of the concept, looking at its many different manifestations and showing how it has changed over its long life, from ancient times right through to the present. For instance, how did the 'people power' of the Athenians emerge in the first place? Once it had emerged, what enabled it to survive? And how did the Athenian version of democracy differ from the many other forms that developed among the myriad cities of the Greek world? Paul Cartledge answers all these questions and more, following the development of ancient political thinking about democracy from the sixth century BC onwards, not least the many arguments that were advanced against it over the centuries. As Cartledge shows, after a golden age in the fourth century BC, there was a long, slow degradation of the original Greek conception and practice of democracy, from the Hellenistic era, through late Republican and early Imperial Rome, down to early Byzantium in the sixth century CE. For many centuries after that, from late Antiquity, through the Middle Ages, to the Renaissance, democracy was effectively eclipsed by other forms of government, in both theory and practice. But as we know, this was by no means the end of the story. For democracy was eventually to enjoy a re-florescence, over two thousand years after its first flowering in the ancient world: initially revived in seventeenth-century England, it was to undergo a further renaissance in the revolutionary climate of late-eighteenth-century North America and France — and has been constantly reconstituted and reinvented ever since.
Intellectuals In Politics In The Greek World Routledge Revivals
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Author : Frank Vatai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-06-17
Intellectuals In Politics In The Greek World Routledge Revivals written by Frank Vatai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-17 with History categories.
Intellectuals in Politics in the Greek World, first published in 1984, was the first comprehensive study of this recurrent theme in political sociology with specific reference to antiquity, and led to significant revaluation of the role of intellectuals in everyday political life. The term ‘intellectual’ is carefully defined, and figures as diverse as Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle; Isocrates, Heracleides of Ponteius and Clearchus of Soli are discussed. The author examines the difference between the success of an intellectual politician, like Solon, and the failure of those such as Plato who attempted to mould society to abstract ideals. It is concluded that, ultimately, most philosophers were conspicuously unsuccessful when they intervened in politics: citizens regarded them as propagandists for their rulers, while rulers treated them as intellectual ornaments. The result was that many thinkers retreated to inter-scholastic disputation where the political objects of discussion increasingly became far removed from contemporary reality.