The Battlefield of History: Megara, Athens, and the Mythic Past
... Mythology in classical Greece was more than the basis of a religious system or a moral guide. It was a vital tool for politics, the means through which identity was created and attacked. Cities and ethnic groups were differentiated through the myths they called their own, the heroes they looked up t ...
... Mythology in classical Greece was more than the basis of a religious system or a moral guide. It was a vital tool for politics, the means through which identity was created and attacked. Cities and ethnic groups were differentiated through the myths they called their own, the heroes they looked up t ...
reading the rise of pisistratus: herodotus
... shall argue that this digression remains firmly focused on its context. I take it that Herodotus was in a position to choose the beginning of his mainland Greek narrative. He dismisses mythical Athenian achievements and does not even choose to digress into their condition under the laws of Solon. He ...
... shall argue that this digression remains firmly focused on its context. I take it that Herodotus was in a position to choose the beginning of his mainland Greek narrative. He dismisses mythical Athenian achievements and does not even choose to digress into their condition under the laws of Solon. He ...
S N : PEECH AND
... ultimate reliance upon judgment. Further, he calls attention to the biases and other vagaries of witness accounts as well as to the fact that interpretation occurs in the very process of observation, not solely at the level of the reporting of events. He includes himself within the compass of this ...
... ultimate reliance upon judgment. Further, he calls attention to the biases and other vagaries of witness accounts as well as to the fact that interpretation occurs in the very process of observation, not solely at the level of the reporting of events. He includes himself within the compass of this ...
Πολιτικός Ἔρως: Alcibiades` Love in Thucydides and Plato
... Alcibiades has a tendency to cross the boundaries that a true citizen should not cross. One of these boundaries is erotic in nature, and falls along the carefully delineated lines that form the ἐραστής-ἐρώμενος relationship. This relationship, between an older citizen male (the lover) and a male you ...
... Alcibiades has a tendency to cross the boundaries that a true citizen should not cross. One of these boundaries is erotic in nature, and falls along the carefully delineated lines that form the ἐραστής-ἐρώμενος relationship. This relationship, between an older citizen male (the lover) and a male you ...
- Nottingham ePrints
... natural resources across the Mediterranean, is what makes them a strategic resource. There is, of course, no consensus on which resources are regarded as strategic; that largely depends on a country's resource base (though we do not know the base capacity of Greek states). A strategic resource is th ...
... natural resources across the Mediterranean, is what makes them a strategic resource. There is, of course, no consensus on which resources are regarded as strategic; that largely depends on a country's resource base (though we do not know the base capacity of Greek states). A strategic resource is th ...
A Mind at War: Erga Paraloga in Thucydides` History
... In antiquity, the poet was considered a teacher (Smertenko, 233). Even in the historical prose of Herodotus, a teaching figure appears early on in Book 1, Solon, whose lessons inform the outcome of the History’s events to a significant extent (Dewald, 9-26). Thucydides is different: no such articula ...
... In antiquity, the poet was considered a teacher (Smertenko, 233). Even in the historical prose of Herodotus, a teaching figure appears early on in Book 1, Solon, whose lessons inform the outcome of the History’s events to a significant extent (Dewald, 9-26). Thucydides is different: no such articula ...
Author of Illusions - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
... avoidable still remain matters of debate. Among the general public, moreover, there is little indication that the ancient alternative perception reflected in Alexander Hamilton’s words above has survived to receive any serious consideration at all. This book does not have as its main goal the object ...
... avoidable still remain matters of debate. Among the general public, moreover, there is little indication that the ancient alternative perception reflected in Alexander Hamilton’s words above has survived to receive any serious consideration at all. This book does not have as its main goal the object ...
Socrates
... Alcibiades and Critias, Socrates’ two pupils, had done the most damage to the Athenian democracy. Both of them were Socrates’ best pupils and yet both of them were openly hostile to Athenian democracy. Alcibiades, one of Socrates’ most devoted followers, once commented at Sparta that democracy is “a ...
... Alcibiades and Critias, Socrates’ two pupils, had done the most damage to the Athenian democracy. Both of them were Socrates’ best pupils and yet both of them were openly hostile to Athenian democracy. Alcibiades, one of Socrates’ most devoted followers, once commented at Sparta that democracy is “a ...
I.F. Stone Breaks the Socrates Story:
... When the Thirty Tyrants took power, they murdered or drove out of the city all who were of the democratic party. A few months later, the moderates who had originally supported the Thirty Tyrants began to flee, especially after Critias murdered their leader, Theramenes. He, who had been one of the or ...
... When the Thirty Tyrants took power, they murdered or drove out of the city all who were of the democratic party. A few months later, the moderates who had originally supported the Thirty Tyrants began to flee, especially after Critias murdered their leader, Theramenes. He, who had been one of the or ...
Thucydides and Civil War: the Case of Alcibiades
... We will insist that Alcibiades was a political man, to the extent of actually embodying the political aspirations of his homeland. The Peloponnesian war is less a civil war in Greek civilization -- than a war by one Greek city for glorious empire against its leading rivals and over them. It is polit ...
... We will insist that Alcibiades was a political man, to the extent of actually embodying the political aspirations of his homeland. The Peloponnesian war is less a civil war in Greek civilization -- than a war by one Greek city for glorious empire against its leading rivals and over them. It is polit ...
An Examination into the Use of Rhetoric in Thucydides
... speech was composed of an introduction, narration, proofs, and finally a conclusion. The introduction was used to gain the trust of the audience while the narration was used to set out the facts of the case. Proofs helped support the facts that were previously set out by the speaker in order to supp ...
... speech was composed of an introduction, narration, proofs, and finally a conclusion. The introduction was used to gain the trust of the audience while the narration was used to set out the facts of the case. Proofs helped support the facts that were previously set out by the speaker in order to supp ...
Thrasyllus Author(s): W. James McCoy Source: The
... wounds of political strife and served notice to the Peloponnesians that Athens was still a formidable foe. Moreover, Cynossema marked a new plateau in the military careers of Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus, who had won the battle in the absence of Alcibiades. The import of this was not lost on the Athen ...
... wounds of political strife and served notice to the Peloponnesians that Athens was still a formidable foe. Moreover, Cynossema marked a new plateau in the military careers of Thrasybulus and Thrasyllus, who had won the battle in the absence of Alcibiades. The import of this was not lost on the Athen ...
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 ...
CHRONOLOGY OF THE HISTORICAL SOCRATES IN THE
... legal code that Socrates would later criticize (Plato, Apology 37a‐b) – but, even worse, they were being tried as a group, in direct violation of the Athenian law of Cannonus requiring each defendant in a capital crime to receive a separate trial. Some in the Assembly ...
... legal code that Socrates would later criticize (Plato, Apology 37a‐b) – but, even worse, they were being tried as a group, in direct violation of the Athenian law of Cannonus requiring each defendant in a capital crime to receive a separate trial. Some in the Assembly ...
POWER AND PRETEXT: THE STATUS OF JUSTICE IN THUCYDIDES
... reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. (1.22.4) According to Strauss, Thucydides rewrote the speeches so that they would become true; “the true speech is the speech as heard by the ...
... reflect it, I shall be content. In fine, I have written my work, not as an essay which is to win the applause of the moment, but as a possession for all time. (1.22.4) According to Strauss, Thucydides rewrote the speeches so that they would become true; “the true speech is the speech as heard by the ...
conclusion - The University of Michigan Press
... shared past never before suspected, bidding them to lay aside what divided them and rise, as one, to new responsibilities. As citizen soldiers and as the sovereign demos of Athens, they were charged with directing a common cause. Public business multiplied accordingly, allowing them to venture into ...
... shared past never before suspected, bidding them to lay aside what divided them and rise, as one, to new responsibilities. As citizen soldiers and as the sovereign demos of Athens, they were charged with directing a common cause. Public business multiplied accordingly, allowing them to venture into ...
S Cimon, son of Miltiades (father) and Hegesipyle (mother
... he failed to do this, he was brought to trial in Athens, accused of accepting bribes to leave Macedonia alone; one of the prosecutors at his trial was Pericles (Plut. Cim. .–). Cimon spoke well in his own defense (Plut. Cim. .) and was acquitted, but this trial, at least as Plutarch narrates ...
... he failed to do this, he was brought to trial in Athens, accused of accepting bribes to leave Macedonia alone; one of the prosecutors at his trial was Pericles (Plut. Cim. .–). Cimon spoke well in his own defense (Plut. Cim. .) and was acquitted, but this trial, at least as Plutarch narrates ...
Liturgy (ancient Greece)
The liturgy (Greek: λειτουργία or λῃτουργία, leitourgia, from λαός / Laos, ""the people"" and the root ἔργο / ergon, ""work"" ) was in ancient Greece a public service established by the city-state whereby its richest members (whether citizens or resident aliens), more or less voluntarily, financed the State with their personal wealth. It took its legitimacy from the idea that ""personal wealth is possessed only through delegation from the city"". The liturgical system dates back to the early days of Athenian democracy, but gradually fell into disuse by the end of the 4th century BC, eclipsed by the development of Euergetism in the Hellenistic period.