The Erinyes in Aeschylus` Oresteia - VUW research archive
... Chapter One explores the pre-Aeschylean Erinyes’ origin and primary associations in order to determine which aspects of the Erinyes / Semnai Theai are traditional and how Aeschylus innovates in the tradition. It further identifies epithets and imagery that endow the Erinyes / Semnai Theai with fears ...
... Chapter One explores the pre-Aeschylean Erinyes’ origin and primary associations in order to determine which aspects of the Erinyes / Semnai Theai are traditional and how Aeschylus innovates in the tradition. It further identifies epithets and imagery that endow the Erinyes / Semnai Theai with fears ...
Sophocles and Alcibiades
... Greek politics were highly personalized. The very existence of the institution of ostracism, for example, whereby individuals were sent into exile by means of a popular vote, attests to the fact. Pericles owed his dominance of Athenian political life in large part to the fact that he had successfull ...
... Greek politics were highly personalized. The very existence of the institution of ostracism, for example, whereby individuals were sent into exile by means of a popular vote, attests to the fact. Pericles owed his dominance of Athenian political life in large part to the fact that he had successfull ...
Grissom_umd_0117E_13755 - DRUM
... To my academic father, Dr. Art Eckstein, who has been my advisor, toughest critic and strongest supporter throughout this project. He has taught me how to write. To my academic mother, Dr. Jeanne Rutenburg, whom I consider to have been my “other advisor.” She showed me what real exuberance for teach ...
... To my academic father, Dr. Art Eckstein, who has been my advisor, toughest critic and strongest supporter throughout this project. He has taught me how to write. To my academic mother, Dr. Jeanne Rutenburg, whom I consider to have been my “other advisor.” She showed me what real exuberance for teach ...
the pdf - Open Collections
... i n s t i t u t i o n s motivated the people of h i s h i s t o r y , and I have observed a pattern that i s repeated at numerous times i n Herodotus' work. He believed that great deeds were more l i k e l y to come from men who believed themselves free than from men deprived of t h e i r freedom by ...
... i n s t i t u t i o n s motivated the people of h i s h i s t o r y , and I have observed a pattern that i s repeated at numerous times i n Herodotus' work. He believed that great deeds were more l i k e l y to come from men who believed themselves free than from men deprived of t h e i r freedom by ...
Alcibiades ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ: Socratic Philosopher and Tragic Hero?
... his immutability permitted the Athenians to be irresponsible, since they could rely upon him to return them to the proper course of action whenever they strayed (..). In any case, Alcibiades has for the second time demonstrated his steadfastness, while others advocate change. Again, his public ...
... his immutability permitted the Athenians to be irresponsible, since they could rely upon him to return them to the proper course of action whenever they strayed (..). In any case, Alcibiades has for the second time demonstrated his steadfastness, while others advocate change. Again, his public ...
Daedalus, Minos, Ariadne, and Theseus
... loss he himself experienced fourteen years ago. Minos summoned his guards and marched to Theseus' cell. When he saw Theseus, Minos immediately sensed the young man's confidence and sense of hope. "How perfect," Minos thought to himself, knowing what awaited the young prince in the heart of his Labyr ...
... loss he himself experienced fourteen years ago. Minos summoned his guards and marched to Theseus' cell. When he saw Theseus, Minos immediately sensed the young man's confidence and sense of hope. "How perfect," Minos thought to himself, knowing what awaited the young prince in the heart of his Labyr ...
History of the Peloponnesian War
... consequently neither built large cities nor attained to any other form of greatness. The richest soils were always most subject to this change of masters; such as the district now called Thessaly, Boeotia, most of the Peloponnese, Arcadia excepted, and the most fertile parts of the rest of Hellas. T ...
... consequently neither built large cities nor attained to any other form of greatness. The richest soils were always most subject to this change of masters; such as the district now called Thessaly, Boeotia, most of the Peloponnese, Arcadia excepted, and the most fertile parts of the rest of Hellas. T ...
THUCYDIDES: THE PELOPONNESIAN WARS
... weakness of ancient times. Before the Trojan war there is no indication of any common action in Hellas, [2] nor indeed of the universal prevalence of the name; on the contrary, before the time of Hellen, son of Deucalion, no such appellation existed, but the country went by the names of the differen ...
... weakness of ancient times. Before the Trojan war there is no indication of any common action in Hellas, [2] nor indeed of the universal prevalence of the name; on the contrary, before the time of Hellen, son of Deucalion, no such appellation existed, but the country went by the names of the differen ...
Leo Strauss-Man of War?
... rather with a radicalization of them from the Right;10 if Shadia Drury’s claim lost in credibility from her unremitting hostility to Strauss in all respects, much more damning of Strauss as a teacher of a basically bellicose view of human excellence or virtue, was the fact that a German scholar ver ...
... rather with a radicalization of them from the Right;10 if Shadia Drury’s claim lost in credibility from her unremitting hostility to Strauss in all respects, much more damning of Strauss as a teacher of a basically bellicose view of human excellence or virtue, was the fact that a German scholar ver ...
The History of the Peloponnesian War
... same misfortune, I suppose that any inference from the appearance presented to the eye would make her power to have been twice as great as it is. We have therefore no right to be sceptical, nor to content ourselves with an inspection of a town to the exclusion of a consideration of its power; but we ...
... same misfortune, I suppose that any inference from the appearance presented to the eye would make her power to have been twice as great as it is. We have therefore no right to be sceptical, nor to content ourselves with an inspection of a town to the exclusion of a consideration of its power; but we ...
AH 1.3 Politics and Society of Ancient Sparta Maria Preztler
... 1.2. Introduction to the sources Source criticism is a crucial aspect of any study of ancient Sparta: it is important to understand that there is no ancient text that can serve as a ‘main source’, especially because the most extensive accounts, e.g. Plutarch’s works on Sparta, were written in the Ro ...
... 1.2. Introduction to the sources Source criticism is a crucial aspect of any study of ancient Sparta: it is important to understand that there is no ancient text that can serve as a ‘main source’, especially because the most extensive accounts, e.g. Plutarch’s works on Sparta, were written in the Ro ...
AH1 option 3 Sparta
... 1.2. Introduction to the sources Source criticism is a crucial aspect of any study of ancient Sparta: it is important to understand that there is no ancient text that can serve as a ‘main source’, especially because the most extensive accounts, e.g. Plutarch’s works on Sparta, were written in the Ro ...
... 1.2. Introduction to the sources Source criticism is a crucial aspect of any study of ancient Sparta: it is important to understand that there is no ancient text that can serve as a ‘main source’, especially because the most extensive accounts, e.g. Plutarch’s works on Sparta, were written in the Ro ...
Breaking the Cuffs: The Helots Rise to Freedom A Lesson in the
... Slavery was a key characteristic shared throughout Ancient Greek societies. Although there are differences in slavery in each polis (IE: chattel slaves versus helots), slaves were either the property of citizens or of the polis (city-state), and primarily worked as laborers. Athenians not only consi ...
... Slavery was a key characteristic shared throughout Ancient Greek societies. Although there are differences in slavery in each polis (IE: chattel slaves versus helots), slaves were either the property of citizens or of the polis (city-state), and primarily worked as laborers. Athenians not only consi ...
aus: Zeitschrift f¸r Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84 (1990) 231–295
... Because of the complex nature of Epirote political evolution as well as the slow development of city institutions in the countryside it seems more appropriate to examine the Epirote eponymous magistrates within the framework of the tribal organizations rather than city by city. Our earliest informat ...
... Because of the complex nature of Epirote political evolution as well as the slow development of city institutions in the countryside it seems more appropriate to examine the Epirote eponymous magistrates within the framework of the tribal organizations rather than city by city. Our earliest informat ...
The Peloponnesian War
... Greece were Athens, which was democratic and innovative, and whose navy had built up an empire in the Aegean Sea, and Sparta, which was oligarchic and conservative, and whose army of heavy infantry enabled it to dominate the southern part of the Greek mainland. Athens’ continuing expansion threatene ...
... Greece were Athens, which was democratic and innovative, and whose navy had built up an empire in the Aegean Sea, and Sparta, which was oligarchic and conservative, and whose army of heavy infantry enabled it to dominate the southern part of the Greek mainland. Athens’ continuing expansion threatene ...
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... ascend from it to a grasp of genuine virtue. But a difculty confronts any effort to approach Thucydides text today. There would seem to be a promising indication at the start of the work that it will speak directly to the concerns of an enlightened time like our own it is written at the peak of poli ...
... ascend from it to a grasp of genuine virtue. But a difculty confronts any effort to approach Thucydides text today. There would seem to be a promising indication at the start of the work that it will speak directly to the concerns of an enlightened time like our own it is written at the peak of poli ...
Socrates (470 BC) - pakclassicsschol
... Refused to endorse a decision which condemned the commanders from the naval battle of Arginusae to death (for failure to pick up survivors after a storm) – argued that Athenian law made it clear each accused should be judged individually Refused to obey the orders of the thirty tyrants (pro-Spar ...
... Refused to endorse a decision which condemned the commanders from the naval battle of Arginusae to death (for failure to pick up survivors after a storm) – argued that Athenian law made it clear each accused should be judged individually Refused to obey the orders of the thirty tyrants (pro-Spar ...
Alcibiades - Miss Allaker`s Classical Studies
... did not go back to get them, or attempt to. Secondly, Alcibiades was a very ambitious man. He was eager to get to the top of the political ladder, and his desire to rule was notorious. Alcibiades started to show signs of what he was to become early in his childhood. Alcibiades, according to Plutarch ...
... did not go back to get them, or attempt to. Secondly, Alcibiades was a very ambitious man. He was eager to get to the top of the political ladder, and his desire to rule was notorious. Alcibiades started to show signs of what he was to become early in his childhood. Alcibiades, according to Plutarch ...
Aristophanes on Alcibiades - Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
... on the Athenians.14 Sommerstein argues, however, that by the time of Frogs, Aristophanes had changed his mind about Alcibiades: "in 406/5 circumstances became such as to make Aristophanes feel that the return of Alcibiades (now free of the Persian connection), with all its dangers, might be the leas ...
... on the Athenians.14 Sommerstein argues, however, that by the time of Frogs, Aristophanes had changed his mind about Alcibiades: "in 406/5 circumstances became such as to make Aristophanes feel that the return of Alcibiades (now free of the Persian connection), with all its dangers, might be the leas ...
Leo Strauss on Thucydides - National Humanities Institute
... of what the speakers had said.”38 Yet “the wording of the speeches is Thucydides’ own work.”39 The speeches, in Strauss’s judgment, are a particularly useful tool because they precede and succeed actions, and can therefore be measured based on their accuracy concerning previous deeds and their insig ...
... of what the speakers had said.”38 Yet “the wording of the speeches is Thucydides’ own work.”39 The speeches, in Strauss’s judgment, are a particularly useful tool because they precede and succeed actions, and can therefore be measured based on their accuracy concerning previous deeds and their insig ...
chapter 1 OEDIPUS IN ATHENS - Beck-Shop
... The domestic crises at the start of the Peloponnesian War, then, may well have been reflected in Oedipus Tyrannus. Moreover, many of the issues under debate in Sophocles’ play would have had a decidedly contemporary ring. Oedipus’ and Jocasta’s responses to Tiresias and the Delphic oracle respective ...
... The domestic crises at the start of the Peloponnesian War, then, may well have been reflected in Oedipus Tyrannus. Moreover, many of the issues under debate in Sophocles’ play would have had a decidedly contemporary ring. Oedipus’ and Jocasta’s responses to Tiresias and the Delphic oracle respective ...
Democracy`s Dignity
... basic needs and egalitarian paternalism alike. Democracy without secure dignity is at best a fragile construct. At worst it is a façade masking the despotism of entrenched and unaccountable elites. Like equality and liberty, dignity stands in a reciprocal relationship to democracy, sustaining and s ...
... basic needs and egalitarian paternalism alike. Democracy without secure dignity is at best a fragile construct. At worst it is a façade masking the despotism of entrenched and unaccountable elites. Like equality and liberty, dignity stands in a reciprocal relationship to democracy, sustaining and s ...
POLITICS AND POLICY IN CORINTH 421
... Finally, while such other writers as have studied this period have confined themselves to Corinth's external rela tions, this study is the first to essay an interpretation of the internal politics during tbe same period, and through this interpretation, a reinterpretation of Corinthian foreign ...
... Finally, while such other writers as have studied this period have confined themselves to Corinth's external rela tions, this study is the first to essay an interpretation of the internal politics during tbe same period, and through this interpretation, a reinterpretation of Corinthian foreign ...
- The American School of Classical Studies at Athens
... The significanceof the form of the names is ambiguous. We might construe them as simply adjectival:the phratry from the tribe of Geleon; the phratry from the town Thymaitadai. In this case it would follow that the formationof the phratries is later than the formation of tribe or village. It is also ...
... The significanceof the form of the names is ambiguous. We might construe them as simply adjectival:the phratry from the tribe of Geleon; the phratry from the town Thymaitadai. In this case it would follow that the formationof the phratries is later than the formation of tribe or village. It is also ...
Plutarch, Charinus, and the Megarian Decree
... course, had reported that the Athenians had charged the Megarians with working the sacred orgas, the land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses on the boundary with Megara. 8 In addition, he gave Pericles a speech explaining his intransigence, stressing the necessity of standing up to the Spartans even ...
... course, had reported that the Athenians had charged the Megarians with working the sacred orgas, the land sacred to the Eleusinian goddesses on the boundary with Megara. 8 In addition, he gave Pericles a speech explaining his intransigence, stressing the necessity of standing up to the Spartans even ...
Athenian democracy
Athenian democracy developed around the fifth century BC in the Greek city-state (known as a polis) of Athens, comprising the city of Athens and the surrounding territory of Attica and is the first known democracy in the world. Other Greek cities set up democracies, most following the Athenian model, but none are as well documented as Athens.It was a system of direct democracy, in which participating citizens voted directly on legislation and executive bills. Participation was not open to all residents: to vote one had to be an adult, male citizen, and the number of these ""varied between 30,000 and 50,000 out of a total population of around 250,000 to 300,000.""The longest-lasting democratic leader was Pericles. After his death, Athenian democracy was twice briefly interrupted by oligarchic revolutions towards the end of the Peloponnesian War. It was modified somewhat after it was restored under Eucleides; and the most detailed accounts of the system are of this fourth-century modification rather than the Periclean system. Democracy was suppressed by the Macedonians in 322 BC. The Athenian institutions were later revived, but how close they were to a real democracy is debatable. Solon (594 BC), Cleisthenes (508/7 BC), an aristocrat, and Ephialtes (462 BC) contributed to the development of Athenian democracy.