Grissom_umd_0117E_13755 - DRUM
... Thucydides consciously writes, however, not only for his contemporaries but also for a future audience. By looking at the various ways in which people, both individuals and whole communities, react to the exigencies of war, Thucydides is able to provide an indepth evaluation of human nature. The Pel ...
... Thucydides consciously writes, however, not only for his contemporaries but also for a future audience. By looking at the various ways in which people, both individuals and whole communities, react to the exigencies of war, Thucydides is able to provide an indepth evaluation of human nature. The Pel ...
The Erinyes in Aeschylus` Oresteia - VUW research archive
... Oresteia. It looks at how Aeschylus conceives the Erinyes, particularly their transformation into Semnai Theai, as a central component of the Oresteia’s presentation of social, moral and religious disorder and order. The dissertation first explores the Erinyes in the poetic tradition, then discusses ...
... Oresteia. It looks at how Aeschylus conceives the Erinyes, particularly their transformation into Semnai Theai, as a central component of the Oresteia’s presentation of social, moral and religious disorder and order. The dissertation first explores the Erinyes in the poetic tradition, then discusses ...
by Euripides - comparativeliterature
... Edith Hamilton in her book The Greek Way. In his later years Euripides withdrew from public society and spent most of his time in a cave, working on his plays. The Peloponnesian Wars, in their final throes, were destroying the city and society which he so loved; Athens was collapsing. Finally, at ag ...
... Edith Hamilton in her book The Greek Way. In his later years Euripides withdrew from public society and spent most of his time in a cave, working on his plays. The Peloponnesian Wars, in their final throes, were destroying the city and society which he so loved; Athens was collapsing. Finally, at ag ...
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 ...
Alcibiades ΠΟΛΥΤΡΟΠΟΣ: Socratic Philosopher and Tragic Hero?
... in the armaments voted for the expedition, which will eventually mean that more men and ships are lost. We might understand this episode to portray Alcibiades as unsuccessfully advocating a (praiseworthy) Periclean policy of fixity. Pericles had famously claimed to be ‘the same’ (.., ..), b ...
... in the armaments voted for the expedition, which will eventually mean that more men and ships are lost. We might understand this episode to portray Alcibiades as unsuccessfully advocating a (praiseworthy) Periclean policy of fixity. Pericles had famously claimed to be ‘the same’ (.., ..), b ...
A Tale of Two Cities? - VUW research archive
... Even the guides of the Argives themselves know that what they say is not all truth, but they say it nevertheless. For it is not easy to make everyone change their minds to the contrary. ...
... Even the guides of the Argives themselves know that what they say is not all truth, but they say it nevertheless. For it is not easy to make everyone change their minds to the contrary. ...
Leo Strauss-Man of War?
... is largely the invention of students and disciples who made a cult around Strauss, in other words, a mythology that bears little relationship to the deepest meanings in Strauss’s own thought. Even, and especially if this could be the case, it is necessary to assess whether Strauss’s own teachings su ...
... is largely the invention of students and disciples who made a cult around Strauss, in other words, a mythology that bears little relationship to the deepest meanings in Strauss’s own thought. Even, and especially if this could be the case, it is necessary to assess whether Strauss’s own teachings su ...
Daedalus, Minos, Ariadne, and Theseus
... his lair, Asterius loved Minos like he was his own father. Often, Minos would spend time with Asterius in the Labyrinth, and Minos especially loved to reward his son when the two could gloat over the butchered remains of their victims. With Minos, Asterius was gentle as a loving child. After leaving ...
... his lair, Asterius loved Minos like he was his own father. Often, Minos would spend time with Asterius in the Labyrinth, and Minos especially loved to reward his son when the two could gloat over the butchered remains of their victims. With Minos, Asterius was gentle as a loving child. After leaving ...
Leo Strauss on Thucydides - National Humanities Institute
... modern historian’s project. While Thucydides may have subjected history dealt his report to “the most severe and detailed test possible,” he also with universal “inserts speeches, composed by him,” into his narrative, which truths. “say what was demanded of them.”8 Moreover, contrary to the modern h ...
... modern historian’s project. While Thucydides may have subjected history dealt his report to “the most severe and detailed test possible,” he also with universal “inserts speeches, composed by him,” into his narrative, which truths. “say what was demanded of them.”8 Moreover, contrary to the modern h ...
Alcibiades - Miss Allaker`s Classical Studies
... Alcibiades was accused of some sort of tax evasion. Some of his accusers said that he not only married his wife for money, but he tried to get double her dowry. Plato noted in Protagoras, that Alcibiades was a handsome man, but that there were others with more wisdom. He was a man that in our days w ...
... Alcibiades was accused of some sort of tax evasion. Some of his accusers said that he not only married his wife for money, but he tried to get double her dowry. Plato noted in Protagoras, that Alcibiades was a handsome man, but that there were others with more wisdom. He was a man that in our days w ...
The Peloponnesian War
... Peloponnesian War. This was fought between Athens and Sparta, the two leading powers of fifth-century Greece, and eventually won by Sparta. Thucydides started work at the outset of the war in 431, expecting it to be ‘more momentous than any previous conflict’. He served as a general in the war, but wa ...
... Peloponnesian War. This was fought between Athens and Sparta, the two leading powers of fifth-century Greece, and eventually won by Sparta. Thucydides started work at the outset of the war in 431, expecting it to be ‘more momentous than any previous conflict’. He served as a general in the war, but wa ...
Thucydides` Corinthians - OUR Archive
... The majority of scholars who discuss the causes of the Peloponnesian War tend to focus on whether Thucydides was right to attribute the Spartan fear of Athenian growth as the a0lhqesta/thn pro/fasin of the war.1 In doing so, many have questioned Thucydides‟ presentation of events and discussed at gr ...
... The majority of scholars who discuss the causes of the Peloponnesian War tend to focus on whether Thucydides was right to attribute the Spartan fear of Athenian growth as the a0lhqesta/thn pro/fasin of the war.1 In doing so, many have questioned Thucydides‟ presentation of events and discussed at gr ...
- LSE Theses Online
... power, and gender into what we might call a kind of ‘erotic politics’. This discourse is clearly reflected in tragedy; many dramas take eros as a central theme and explore the role that the emotion could (and should) play in the community. Although it is usually transgressive and destructive, tragic ...
... power, and gender into what we might call a kind of ‘erotic politics’. This discourse is clearly reflected in tragedy; many dramas take eros as a central theme and explore the role that the emotion could (and should) play in the community. Although it is usually transgressive and destructive, tragic ...
the price of failure
... various theaters of military action, including Sicily. Pausanias says that he agrees with Philistus, who says that Nicias‟ name did not appear on the stele because he had surrendered voluntarily in Sicily, and was therefore considered an unworthy soldier2. Plutarch, the great biographer who helped i ...
... various theaters of military action, including Sicily. Pausanias says that he agrees with Philistus, who says that Nicias‟ name did not appear on the stele because he had surrendered voluntarily in Sicily, and was therefore considered an unworthy soldier2. Plutarch, the great biographer who helped i ...
Socrates (470 BC) - pakclassicsschol
... Seen by many as a martyr for the truth Virtue is knowledge To live in a ‘good’ way, one must first know exactly what defines being ‘good’ Socrates claimed that people do wrong only because they do not understand that what they are doing is wrong Philosophy had an inward looking focus – wished to ...
... Seen by many as a martyr for the truth Virtue is knowledge To live in a ‘good’ way, one must first know exactly what defines being ‘good’ Socrates claimed that people do wrong only because they do not understand that what they are doing is wrong Philosophy had an inward looking focus – wished to ...
A short biography of Pericles
... The Athenians did not like to be on the defensive, and they accused Pericles of cowardice. He had to endure a lot of abuse while he waited for his strategy to bear fruit. Even his friends pestered Pericles with complaints, and the comedians of Athens made him the target of savage and funny ridicule. ...
... The Athenians did not like to be on the defensive, and they accused Pericles of cowardice. He had to endure a lot of abuse while he waited for his strategy to bear fruit. Even his friends pestered Pericles with complaints, and the comedians of Athens made him the target of savage and funny ridicule. ...
aus: Zeitschrift f¸r Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84 (1990) 231–295
... although, of course, his name in each of them also serves to date the document. For a prostates of the Pergamioi see the decree published by D.E. Evangelides in Epeirotika Chronika 1935, 260ff., and republished by L. Robert, Hellenica 1.95 (SEG XV 411), dated sometime after 264 BC and found in a pla ...
... although, of course, his name in each of them also serves to date the document. For a prostates of the Pergamioi see the decree published by D.E. Evangelides in Epeirotika Chronika 1935, 260ff., and republished by L. Robert, Hellenica 1.95 (SEG XV 411), dated sometime after 264 BC and found in a pla ...
in partial fuifillrnent of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts.
... The Menerenus' mythology, which resembles a new founding in the guise of a mere renewal of tradition. aims at infusing the citizens' souls with a passionate, and in that respect, a pre-rational longing for moderation and fraternal affection. In doing so, it urges the city toward a healthier understa ...
... The Menerenus' mythology, which resembles a new founding in the guise of a mere renewal of tradition. aims at infusing the citizens' souls with a passionate, and in that respect, a pre-rational longing for moderation and fraternal affection. In doing so, it urges the city toward a healthier understa ...
Euripides Biography
... The earliest of Euripides' extant plays is the Alcestis of 438 B.C. This drama was the fourth play of a series of four, a position usually occupied by a satyr play. But Akestis is no satyr play, and despite its happy ending, it is fully tragic in its themes. Its premise is the fairy−tale motif of re ...
... The earliest of Euripides' extant plays is the Alcestis of 438 B.C. This drama was the fourth play of a series of four, a position usually occupied by a satyr play. But Akestis is no satyr play, and despite its happy ending, it is fully tragic in its themes. Its premise is the fairy−tale motif of re ...
Aristophanes on Alcibiades - Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
... Aristophanes' way of implicitly endorsing the recall of Alcibiades? Editors and other scholars disagree on the answer. W. W. Merry, M. Croiset, and Wilamowitz believe that Aristophanes is indeed expressing the opinion that Alcibiades should be brought back to Athens.16 But others have their doubts. ...
... Aristophanes' way of implicitly endorsing the recall of Alcibiades? Editors and other scholars disagree on the answer. W. W. Merry, M. Croiset, and Wilamowitz believe that Aristophanes is indeed expressing the opinion that Alcibiades should be brought back to Athens.16 But others have their doubts. ...
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 ...
Graphe or Dike Traumatos?
... ideal society, he is certainly not using Athenian technical terms consistently. So to adduce passages from Plato's Laws in support of the view that Athenian legal terminology lacks precision is, to say the least, not advisable. 12 Similarly, the notes in rhetorical treatises, lexica, and scholia may ...
... ideal society, he is certainly not using Athenian technical terms consistently. So to adduce passages from Plato's Laws in support of the view that Athenian legal terminology lacks precision is, to say the least, not advisable. 12 Similarly, the notes in rhetorical treatises, lexica, and scholia may ...
PDF - UWA Research Repository
... disbursements made by the Athenian state, comparatively little is known about jury pay and the aim of this study is to provide an over-due reassessment of this important political and financial phenomenon. There is no clear-cut evidence for when jury pay began, but the introduction is conventionally ...
... disbursements made by the Athenian state, comparatively little is known about jury pay and the aim of this study is to provide an over-due reassessment of this important political and financial phenomenon. There is no clear-cut evidence for when jury pay began, but the introduction is conventionally ...
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... selfinterest. If one happens to wish for success, fame, or glory, Heilke concludes, one needs in addition to good fortune the knowledge of the observer and the excellence of character to use that knowledge to ones own purposes . Having begun with a realist assumption about selfinterest, Heilke arriv ...
... selfinterest. If one happens to wish for success, fame, or glory, Heilke concludes, one needs in addition to good fortune the knowledge of the observer and the excellence of character to use that knowledge to ones own purposes . Having begun with a realist assumption about selfinterest, Heilke arriv ...
chapter 1 OEDIPUS IN ATHENS - Beck-Shop
... the city of Athens had endured a series of plagues following the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431.10 Another attempt to highlight its influence on Euripides’ Hippolytus (428 BC) would indicate a slightly earlier date, around 429.11 Although any precise dating is clearly impossible, the play ...
... the city of Athens had endured a series of plagues following the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War in 431.10 Another attempt to highlight its influence on Euripides’ Hippolytus (428 BC) would indicate a slightly earlier date, around 429.11 Although any precise dating is clearly impossible, the play ...
Epikleros
An epikleros (ἐπίκληρος; plural epikleroi) was an heiress in ancient Athens and other ancient Greek city states, specifically a daughter of a man who had no male heirs. In Sparta, they were called patrouchoi (πατροῦχοι), as they were in Gortyn. Athenian women were not allowed to hold property in their own name; in order to keep her father's property in the family, an epikleros was required to marry her father's nearest male relative. Even if a woman was already married, evidence suggests that she was required to divorce her spouse to marry that relative. Spartan women were allowed to hold property in their own right, and so Spartan heiresses were subject to less restrictive rules. Evidence from other city-states is more fragmentary, mainly coming from the city-states of Gortyn and Rhegium.Plato wrote about epikleroi in his Laws, offering idealized laws to govern their marriages. In mythology and history, a number of Greek women appear to have been epikleroi, including Agariste of Sicyon and Agiatis, the widow of the Spartan king Agis IV. The status of epikleroi has often been used to explain the numbers of sons-in-law who inherited from their fathers-in-law in Greek mythology. The Third Sacred War originated in a dispute over epikleroi.