dicere laudes6.indd - Fondazione Canussio
... citizens in front of the Athenian citizen body as a whole. The speaker on such an occasion could expect to carry his audience with him as he lavished praise on the war dead. They had, after all, voluntarily fought for Athens and given up their lives – a choice that none of those who heard the oratio ...
... citizens in front of the Athenian citizen body as a whole. The speaker on such an occasion could expect to carry his audience with him as he lavished praise on the war dead. They had, after all, voluntarily fought for Athens and given up their lives – a choice that none of those who heard the oratio ...
Outcast-Leary - Psychological Sciences
... also threaten people’s sense of control and meaningfulness, and thwart other desires (such as for attention, status, or physical security), but these are not specific to rejection. These secondary effects can be quite powerful and certainly deserve attention, but they should be distinguished from th ...
... also threaten people’s sense of control and meaningfulness, and thwart other desires (such as for attention, status, or physical security), but these are not specific to rejection. These secondary effects can be quite powerful and certainly deserve attention, but they should be distinguished from th ...
Finding the Truth: An Examination into the Use of Rhetoric in
... Finding the Truth: A Look at the Use of Rhetoric in Thucydides The art of persuasion is a complex beast. The objective of any great rhetorician is to not only persuade the audience, but more notably to have the audience believe in the truths presented. Growing up in Athens at the height of the class ...
... Finding the Truth: A Look at the Use of Rhetoric in Thucydides The art of persuasion is a complex beast. The objective of any great rhetorician is to not only persuade the audience, but more notably to have the audience believe in the truths presented. Growing up in Athens at the height of the class ...
A Day In Old Athens by William Stearns Davis
... translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long explanations, PROBABLE matters have been stated as if they were ascertained facts; but these instances are few, and it is hoped no reader will b ...
... translated to the fourth century B.C. and conducted about the city under competent guidance. Rare happenings have been omitted and sometimes, to avoid long explanations, PROBABLE matters have been stated as if they were ascertained facts; but these instances are few, and it is hoped no reader will b ...
Πολιτικός Ἔρως: Alcibiades` Love in Thucydides and Plato
... level of classical Athenian political discourse and the erotic relationship between δῆμος and δημαγωγός, which we will soon account for. Picking up on the work of Foucault, Halperin, and Dover, Victoria Wohl and Susan Sara Monoson have written extensively on the erotic dimensions of this discourse. ...
... level of classical Athenian political discourse and the erotic relationship between δῆμος and δημαγωγός, which we will soon account for. Picking up on the work of Foucault, Halperin, and Dover, Victoria Wohl and Susan Sara Monoson have written extensively on the erotic dimensions of this discourse. ...
M. Lang, Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse
... Here, as elsewhere, the discursive element of Thucydides’ historiography, his manipulation of tone, his skill at juxtaposition, requires more careful attention. Readers will remember that another clever Athenian leader— Themistocles—had outdone a Spartan at letter-writing and gained an edge. Indeed, ...
... Here, as elsewhere, the discursive element of Thucydides’ historiography, his manipulation of tone, his skill at juxtaposition, requires more careful attention. Readers will remember that another clever Athenian leader— Themistocles—had outdone a Spartan at letter-writing and gained an edge. Indeed, ...
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... democracy to swing in the opposite direction, towards tyranny (701a). The Stranger’s judgment ...
... democracy to swing in the opposite direction, towards tyranny (701a). The Stranger’s judgment ...
S N : PEECH AND
... In the scholarship on Thucydides, much attention has been paid to the device of the speeches, occupying a quarter of the text in his History. Donald Kagan noted several decades ago that “There are few arguments of longer standing in the scholarship on Thucydides than the one concerning the speeches ...
... In the scholarship on Thucydides, much attention has been paid to the device of the speeches, occupying a quarter of the text in his History. Donald Kagan noted several decades ago that “There are few arguments of longer standing in the scholarship on Thucydides than the one concerning the speeches ...
Did the Ancient Greeks Know of Collective Tyranny?
... awareness of collective tyranny in order not only better to understand the evolution of Greek political thought, but also to avoid misunderstandings in assessing the character of certain regimes. Dynasteia is a state-theoretical notion that may help us further on. Our enquiries into this notion sh ...
... awareness of collective tyranny in order not only better to understand the evolution of Greek political thought, but also to avoid misunderstandings in assessing the character of certain regimes. Dynasteia is a state-theoretical notion that may help us further on. Our enquiries into this notion sh ...
The Athenian Empire (478-404 BC)
... The answer here has to be rather more complicated. First, I argue that Athens was the only polis that ever had a serious chance of becoming the capital of a territorial state. The second part of my argument is that this in fact was a more plausible and predictable outcome than its collapse in 404. A ...
... The answer here has to be rather more complicated. First, I argue that Athens was the only polis that ever had a serious chance of becoming the capital of a territorial state. The second part of my argument is that this in fact was a more plausible and predictable outcome than its collapse in 404. A ...
An Examination into the Use of Rhetoric in Thucydides
... Finding the Truth: A Look at the Use of Rhetoric in Thucydides The art of persuasion is a complex beast. The objective of any great rhetorician is to not only persuade the audience, but more notably to have the audience believe in the truths presented. Growing up in Athens at the height of the class ...
... Finding the Truth: A Look at the Use of Rhetoric in Thucydides The art of persuasion is a complex beast. The objective of any great rhetorician is to not only persuade the audience, but more notably to have the audience believe in the truths presented. Growing up in Athens at the height of the class ...
Athenian Political Art from the Fifth and Fourth Centuries : Images of
... personification of Boule (the Athenian Council) is limited to one labelled example, a relief from the second quarter of the fourth century, on which she joins Athena, and probably Demos, to crown an honorand. Carol Lawton has rightly noted that Boule would not appear without Demos, as the Council c ...
... personification of Boule (the Athenian Council) is limited to one labelled example, a relief from the second quarter of the fourth century, on which she joins Athena, and probably Demos, to crown an honorand. Carol Lawton has rightly noted that Boule would not appear without Demos, as the Council c ...
the failure of Athenian democracy and the reign of the Thirty Tyrants
... Athens, a polis long governed by its proud and unique democracy, was governed by an oligarchy consisting of Thirty Athenians of the aristocratic class, from 404 B.C. when Athens surrendered to Sparta to end the Peloponnesian War (431-404).1 The “Thirty” were entrusted by Sparta to codify the laws of ...
... Athens, a polis long governed by its proud and unique democracy, was governed by an oligarchy consisting of Thirty Athenians of the aristocratic class, from 404 B.C. when Athens surrendered to Sparta to end the Peloponnesian War (431-404).1 The “Thirty” were entrusted by Sparta to codify the laws of ...
The age of Pericles, a history of the politics and arts of Greece from
... and development of Hellenic language.—Change from Homeric to Hellas. — Contrasts of Achaian and Hellenic periods. — B.C. 1066 Epoch of migrations and revolutions. — Return of the Heracleids. —Centuries of colonisation East and West. —Grouping ...
... and development of Hellenic language.—Change from Homeric to Hellas. — Contrasts of Achaian and Hellenic periods. — B.C. 1066 Epoch of migrations and revolutions. — Return of the Heracleids. —Centuries of colonisation East and West. —Grouping ...
Thucydides in Wartime PURE Upload
... their readings enact a response to concerns about democratic weakness with an account of democratic virtues. Any critical evaluation must consider the substantive claims made about democracy as well as whether exceptionalism is a sufficient and effective response to democracy’s putative ailments. In ...
... their readings enact a response to concerns about democratic weakness with an account of democratic virtues. Any critical evaluation must consider the substantive claims made about democracy as well as whether exceptionalism is a sufficient and effective response to democracy’s putative ailments. In ...
Morality and Realpolitik in the Athenian Speech at the
... amorality that is highlighted. The degree to which one shading prevails over the other can be quite difficult to discern in one speech alone. To determine that there is a perfect consistency of any one paradigm of motivation or causation that is applied across different speeches is a greater challen ...
... amorality that is highlighted. The degree to which one shading prevails over the other can be quite difficult to discern in one speech alone. To determine that there is a perfect consistency of any one paradigm of motivation or causation that is applied across different speeches is a greater challen ...
Thrasyllus Author(s): W. James McCoy Source: The
... Samos.5 If this is true, Thrasyllus was probably there during the winter months, when Alcibiades first began to communicate from Asia Minor with the most influential men of the Athenian fleet.6 But Thrasyllus was not numbered among the ranks of those who conspired against the democratic governments ...
... Samos.5 If this is true, Thrasyllus was probably there during the winter months, when Alcibiades first began to communicate from Asia Minor with the most influential men of the Athenian fleet.6 But Thrasyllus was not numbered among the ranks of those who conspired against the democratic governments ...
PBS Empires Video – “The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization” Episode
... 0:00 – Series Introduction: The Significance of the Greeks The Greeks. A people glorious and arrogant, valiant and headstrong. These were the men and women who laid the very foundations of Western Civilization. Their monuments still recall perhaps the most extraordinary two centuries in history, a t ...
... 0:00 – Series Introduction: The Significance of the Greeks The Greeks. A people glorious and arrogant, valiant and headstrong. These were the men and women who laid the very foundations of Western Civilization. Their monuments still recall perhaps the most extraordinary two centuries in history, a t ...
Apophasis (Special Investigations)
... he was accompanying the exiles to Megara and to report back aer the investigation, it reported that he was doing so. You chose accusers as the law prescribes: Polyeuctus came into court and you acquitted him, on his admitting that he was going to Megara to Nicophanes who, he said, was married to hi ...
... he was accompanying the exiles to Megara and to report back aer the investigation, it reported that he was doing so. You chose accusers as the law prescribes: Polyeuctus came into court and you acquitted him, on his admitting that he was going to Megara to Nicophanes who, he said, was married to hi ...
Exploring the Role of Basic Motives in Foreign Policy
... and be accepted by larger communities, which can provide more protection and comfort than the actor would be able to secure for itself. In order to be part of such a community, an actor needs to accept and internalize, at least to some extent, that community's norms and rules of behavior. The most i ...
... and be accepted by larger communities, which can provide more protection and comfort than the actor would be able to secure for itself. In order to be part of such a community, an actor needs to accept and internalize, at least to some extent, that community's norms and rules of behavior. The most i ...
The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Day In Old Athens by William
... The writer has been under a heavy debt to the numerous and excellent works on Greek "Private Antiquities" and "Public Life" written in English, French, or German, as well as to the various great Classical Encyclopedias and Dictionaries, and to many treatises and monographs upon the topography of Ath ...
... The writer has been under a heavy debt to the numerous and excellent works on Greek "Private Antiquities" and "Public Life" written in English, French, or German, as well as to the various great Classical Encyclopedias and Dictionaries, and to many treatises and monographs upon the topography of Ath ...
Theseus - UW Canvas
... archaic period (8th to mid 5th c. BCE) differ later myths (last quarter of mid 5th c. BCE onward)? • What might be a reason for these changes? • How does Theseus compare with Heracles? ...
... archaic period (8th to mid 5th c. BCE) differ later myths (last quarter of mid 5th c. BCE onward)? • What might be a reason for these changes? • How does Theseus compare with Heracles? ...
Introduction A Biography of Pericles in the Context of the Ancient
... self-sacriicing decisions for their community. The vast majority of citizens in Pericles’ time not only lacked much, if any, high-level education, they also made do with a very modest or even poor standard of living, at least in comparison to the wealth and status of the elite members of Athenian so ...
... self-sacriicing decisions for their community. The vast majority of citizens in Pericles’ time not only lacked much, if any, high-level education, they also made do with a very modest or even poor standard of living, at least in comparison to the wealth and status of the elite members of Athenian so ...
Solon`s Law on Stasis and the Rise of Pisistratus in 561/0 B
... Grote 2009: 190, Schmitz 2011: 45ff. The anti-tyrannical intention of the law, as Schmitz supposes, aligns it with Cleisthenes’ law of ostracism, which might be the continuation of the Stasisgezetz (Schmitz 2011: 45). Another opinion is that ostracism was more closely connected with the law (or laws ...
... Grote 2009: 190, Schmitz 2011: 45ff. The anti-tyrannical intention of the law, as Schmitz supposes, aligns it with Cleisthenes’ law of ostracism, which might be the continuation of the Stasisgezetz (Schmitz 2011: 45). Another opinion is that ostracism was more closely connected with the law (or laws ...
Solon`s Law on Stasis and the Rise of Pisistratus in 561/0 B
... The use of the word θέσμια here indicates that Solon was reproducing an old provision of law (possibly that of Draco).29 The ancient law against tyranny suggested exile and the other sanctions as well (i.e. outlawry).30 The Solonian law prescribed eisangelia and a trial before the Areopagus with at ...
... The use of the word θέσμια here indicates that Solon was reproducing an old provision of law (possibly that of Draco).29 The ancient law against tyranny suggested exile and the other sanctions as well (i.e. outlawry).30 The Solonian law prescribed eisangelia and a trial before the Areopagus with at ...