The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes
... (prose being as yet unknown for literary purposes), of which substantial parts have come down to us, the first surviving reflections of a European statesman. He went abroad voluntarily for the ten years during which he hoped his laws would be respected,67 and on his travels he is supposed to have vi ...
... (prose being as yet unknown for literary purposes), of which substantial parts have come down to us, the first surviving reflections of a European statesman. He went abroad voluntarily for the ten years during which he hoped his laws would be respected,67 and on his travels he is supposed to have vi ...
16 page pdf - The Stoa Consortium
... before the Council (τῆς βουλῆς τῶν πεντακοσίων) and the Assembly (ἐν τῷ δήμῳ) (Aristot. Ath. Pol. .). So the reform was not, finally, the work of Ephialtes alone, but an act of legislation by two of the more democratic institutions in Athens. Aristotle connects this event to a newfound feeling of ...
... before the Council (τῆς βουλῆς τῶν πεντακοσίων) and the Assembly (ἐν τῷ δήμῳ) (Aristot. Ath. Pol. .). So the reform was not, finally, the work of Ephialtes alone, but an act of legislation by two of the more democratic institutions in Athens. Aristotle connects this event to a newfound feeling of ...
saved - PDFbooks.co.za
... 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 Encyclopædias 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 Encyclopædias and Dictionaries, and to many treatises and monographs upon the topography of Ath ...
- The Heritage Podcast
... mentioned<(t; to (pavqpovkXyo6givat)- but this is palpablyuntrue of the account which Thucydidesgives in book 1: the first Corinthian speechconcentrateson Athenianexpansion;the Atheniansin replydeal with the generalissueand refuseto answerthe particularcomplaints(as Thucydides emphasisesin his narra ...
... mentioned<(t; to (pavqpovkXyo6givat)- but this is palpablyuntrue of the account which Thucydidesgives in book 1: the first Corinthian speechconcentrateson Athenianexpansion;the Atheniansin replydeal with the generalissueand refuseto answerthe particularcomplaints(as Thucydides emphasisesin his narra ...
Divine Deliverance A New Look at Euripidean Tragedy
... goes against scholarly consensus regarding the reading of Euripides’ works, because they operate through the narrowed lens of anti-war sentiment. I argue that the examination of viewer interpretation is very important because authorial intent does not reflect the impact of work if the audience rece ...
... goes against scholarly consensus regarding the reading of Euripides’ works, because they operate through the narrowed lens of anti-war sentiment. I argue that the examination of viewer interpretation is very important because authorial intent does not reflect the impact of work if the audience rece ...
ThuCyDIDES ON POlICy, STRATEgy, AND WAR TERMINATION
... belligerents. The war waxed and waned, and waxed and waned, like a fever (or a plague, Thucydides might say) because of a clash of policies that made it impossible for either Athens or Sparta to accept the result of their most recent conflict as final. Their political objectives were fundamentally i ...
... belligerents. The war waxed and waned, and waxed and waned, like a fever (or a plague, Thucydides might say) because of a clash of policies that made it impossible for either Athens or Sparta to accept the result of their most recent conflict as final. Their political objectives were fundamentally i ...
the chabrias monument in the athenian agora
... brought most of the Cycladic islands into the Athenian sphere, making friends of those who had been enemies. He sent Phokion off to visit the islands that were already allies (Plutarch, Phokion, 6), and he himself apparently visited others on the voyage back to Athens. The advantage won by the battl ...
... brought most of the Cycladic islands into the Athenian sphere, making friends of those who had been enemies. He sent Phokion off to visit the islands that were already allies (Plutarch, Phokion, 6), and he himself apparently visited others on the voyage back to Athens. The advantage won by the battl ...
Conflict and Reconciliation: Dynamics of the Athenian Mass and
... questions, seeking answers in the interaction between mass and elite as evidenced in the speeches recorded in the late fifth century and throughout the fourth. Ober's analysis explains how the balance of power was negotiated in Athens, allowing for simultaneous elite leadership and true mass rule: h ...
... questions, seeking answers in the interaction between mass and elite as evidenced in the speeches recorded in the late fifth century and throughout the fourth. Ober's analysis explains how the balance of power was negotiated in Athens, allowing for simultaneous elite leadership and true mass rule: h ...
introduction
... examples of scholarly interest in the crowd and crowd activities. How is it possible to explain such a lack of scholarly interest? In my view, there are two reasons. First, this phenomenon was considered less important in comparison with well organized and very effectively functioning city instituti ...
... examples of scholarly interest in the crowd and crowd activities. How is it possible to explain such a lack of scholarly interest? In my view, there are two reasons. First, this phenomenon was considered less important in comparison with well organized and very effectively functioning city instituti ...
reading the rise of pisistratus: herodotus
... ponnese. The Hellenic race on the other hand always spoke Greek. It began weak, but grew in strength as more of the aboriginal people joined their language group; whereas the Pelasgians never became strong (.). Herodotus regularly uses ethnography to make images of the nations who possess them. ...
... ponnese. The Hellenic race on the other hand always spoke Greek. It began weak, but grew in strength as more of the aboriginal people joined their language group; whereas the Pelasgians never became strong (.). Herodotus regularly uses ethnography to make images of the nations who possess them. ...
The Second Athenian League: An Alliance
... ships, effectively limiting Athens' immediate sphere of influence to Attica.10 The consequence of these impositions ensured the collapse of the remaining Athenian Empire and the dissolution of the Delian League. Dissatisfied League members formerly under imperial Athenian control were now free to jo ...
... ships, effectively limiting Athens' immediate sphere of influence to Attica.10 The consequence of these impositions ensured the collapse of the remaining Athenian Empire and the dissolution of the Delian League. Dissatisfied League members formerly under imperial Athenian control were now free to jo ...
20th Year of Artaxerxes - Bible Student Chronology
... only where its dates are based upon astronomical observations. It was not compiled until about six centuries after Xerxes ; and the records of several early writers disagree with it in this ...
... only where its dates are based upon astronomical observations. It was not compiled until about six centuries after Xerxes ; and the records of several early writers disagree with it in this ...
conclusion - The University of Michigan Press
... us. The leaders of the new order were hardly the µrst authority µgures in human history to justify their actions with an appeal to the past. In Greece itself, it had been common practice for generations among the ruling class to reafµrm their place in society by claiming links with the age of heroes ...
... us. The leaders of the new order were hardly the µrst authority µgures in human history to justify their actions with an appeal to the past. In Greece itself, it had been common practice for generations among the ruling class to reafµrm their place in society by claiming links with the age of heroes ...
Kairos: a cultural history of time in the Greek polis
... sunrise, sunset, or at some certain fixed hour, while different calendrical systems use different lengths of year, and such variations as academic years and fiscal years have their own rules within a larger system. This dissertation is intended to call attention to distinctive aspects of constructio ...
... sunrise, sunset, or at some certain fixed hour, while different calendrical systems use different lengths of year, and such variations as academic years and fiscal years have their own rules within a larger system. This dissertation is intended to call attention to distinctive aspects of constructio ...
PERICLES` RECKLESS MEGARIAN POLICY WAS
... Athens’s greatest territorial sphere of influence during the heights of what later came to be called the First Peloponnesian War (460 BCE - 445 BCE) when Athens had control of Boeotia, north of Attica, as well as neighboring Megara. Perhaps there were negotiable points here – how much did Sparta re ...
... Athens’s greatest territorial sphere of influence during the heights of what later came to be called the First Peloponnesian War (460 BCE - 445 BCE) when Athens had control of Boeotia, north of Attica, as well as neighboring Megara. Perhaps there were negotiable points here – how much did Sparta re ...
T he P elo P onnesian W ar
... and child rearing, clothing, and other aspects of culture. Thucydides’ approach to history resembled that of many modern historians from the enlightenment era through the nineteenth century. A good representative is Edward Gibbon, who wrote in his famous Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that “wa ...
... and child rearing, clothing, and other aspects of culture. Thucydides’ approach to history resembled that of many modern historians from the enlightenment era through the nineteenth century. A good representative is Edward Gibbon, who wrote in his famous Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that “wa ...
The Politics of Pity in Athenian Civic Ideology and Aristotle`s Poetics
... least in Athenian tragedy and funeral oratory, in practice the linkage between helping behavior and selfregarding pity seems to have been precarious at best. The Athenian evidence suggests that if pity is based on self-regard, it can too easily give way to self-interest. Thucydides’ account of the M ...
... least in Athenian tragedy and funeral oratory, in practice the linkage between helping behavior and selfregarding pity seems to have been precarious at best. The Athenian evidence suggests that if pity is based on self-regard, it can too easily give way to self-interest. Thucydides’ account of the M ...
Rousseau`s Mistake: Representation and the Myth
... In any case, nothing in the concept predisposes it to be a solution to the problem of mass societies. Yet because the emergence of the concept happened to coincide with the age of large polities, the distinction direct/representative democracy has been made to map onto the temporal and conceptual b ...
... In any case, nothing in the concept predisposes it to be a solution to the problem of mass societies. Yet because the emergence of the concept happened to coincide with the age of large polities, the distinction direct/representative democracy has been made to map onto the temporal and conceptual b ...
Sleepwalkers in Athens: Power, Norms, and Ambiguity in Thucydides
... tensively in English and in Greek on Greek foreign policy, US foreign policy and the war on terror, Turkey, the Balkans, the effects of disaster diplomacy, EU foreign policy and European security. He is a senior research associate at the Karamanlis Foundation and serves as the Director of Navarino N ...
... tensively in English and in Greek on Greek foreign policy, US foreign policy and the war on terror, Turkey, the Balkans, the effects of disaster diplomacy, EU foreign policy and European security. He is a senior research associate at the Karamanlis Foundation and serves as the Director of Navarino N ...
Solon Put Athens on the Road to Democracy Sec 1
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
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... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
... aristocrats resumed fighting for political power. In 508 B.C., however, another reformer, Cleisthenes, further weakened the nobility and prepared the way for greater participation in government by all Athenian citizens. The reforms of Cleisthenes led to the full flowering of Athenian democracy durin ...
AH3 option 2 Conflict
... It is worth explaining the political organisation of Boiotia at the outset. Thebes medised in 480, but Thespiai did not (i.e. there was not a united Boiotian stand, despite the existence of some sort of Boiotian federation already by the late sixth century). A good deal is known from a papyrus known ...
... It is worth explaining the political organisation of Boiotia at the outset. Thebes medised in 480, but Thespiai did not (i.e. there was not a united Boiotian stand, despite the existence of some sort of Boiotian federation already by the late sixth century). A good deal is known from a papyrus known ...
AH3 option 2 Conflict
... It is worth explaining the political organisation of Boiotia at the outset. Thebes medised in 480, but Thespiai did not (i.e. there was not a united Boiotian stand, despite the existence of some sort of Boiotian federation already by the late sixth century). A good deal is known from a papyrus known ...
... It is worth explaining the political organisation of Boiotia at the outset. Thebes medised in 480, but Thespiai did not (i.e. there was not a united Boiotian stand, despite the existence of some sort of Boiotian federation already by the late sixth century). A good deal is known from a papyrus known ...
THE SO-CALLED DEFENSIVE POLICY OF PERICLES
... 6. M.H. Chambers, 'Thucydides and Pericles', HSPh 62 (1957), 82-85. H. T .Wade-Gery, O.C.D., 904. ...
... 6. M.H. Chambers, 'Thucydides and Pericles', HSPh 62 (1957), 82-85. H. T .Wade-Gery, O.C.D., 904. ...
PERSUASION: GREEI< RHETORIC IN ACTION
... the production of social understandings regarding what is true and what behaviours are right, proper, even conceivable. As a "consequence, the concept of freedom becomes problematic. Since power is productive and omnipresent (rather than repressive and located in the state) it is not simply a matter ...
... the production of social understandings regarding what is true and what behaviours are right, proper, even conceivable. As a "consequence, the concept of freedom becomes problematic. Since power is productive and omnipresent (rather than repressive and located in the state) it is not simply a matter ...