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Colloquia Attica
Author: Colloquia Attica. Band 3
Author: Werner RiessPublisher:
ISBN: 9783515130677
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Languages : de
Pages : 288
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Colloquia Attica. Band 2
Author: Werner RiessPublisher:
ISBN: 9783515128940
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 224
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Das Athen des 5. Jh. v. Chr. War geprägt von Gegensätzen - mit genau diesen beschäftigte sich das vierte Hamburger Colloquiumb Atticum: Wie konnten die alten Eliten unter der Demokratie von Kooperationen überzeugt werden? Die Autorinnen und Autoren erhellen zum einen mit ökonomischen, rechtlichen und logistischen Überlegungen die Funktionen des Seebunds. Zum anderen akzentuieren sie den Weg in den Peloponnesischen Krieg neu. Eine entpersönlichte Herrschaft garantierte zwar die Freiheit des Individuums, dieses musste sich jedoch der Staatsgewalt unterordnen. Scholien zu Aristophanes bekräftigen die antike Tradition, dass Perikles aufgrund innenpolitischer Probleme zum Krieg drängte. Alkibiades erscheint als schillernde Figur, die mit ihren Widersprüchen für die gegensätzlichen Tendenzen der Zeit steht. Nach den oligarchischen Coups von 411 und 404/3 v. Chr. spielten die Hopliten eine zentrale Rolle, die in ihrem Selbstverständnis zwischen Oligarchie und Demokratie schwankten. Schließlich lässt sich ikonographisch nachweisen, dass sich das Sehen um 480 v. Chr. so veränderte, dass von einer visuellen Revolution in der griechischen Welt gesprochen werden kann.
The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature
Author: Andreas N. MichalopoulosPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110611163
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 461
Book Description
This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups. To this end, the essays span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and themes (i.e. audience-speaker, laughter, emotions, language, gender, identity, and religion).
Valuing Labour in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900469496X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
How did ancient Greeks and Romans regard work? It has long been assumed that elite thinkers disparaged physical work, and that working people rarely commented on their own labors. The papers in this volume challenge these notions by investigating philosophical, literary and working people’s own ideas about what it meant to work. From Plato’s terminology of labor to Roman prostitutes’ self-proclaimed pride in their work, these chapters find ancient people assigning value to multiple different kinds of work, and many different concepts of labor.
The Orators and Their Treatment of the Recent Past
Author: Aggelos KapellosPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 311079196X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of it; and the unwillingness of the citizens to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results. Twenty-eight scholars have written chapters to this end, dealing with a wide range of themes, in terms both of contents and of chronology, from the fifth to the fourth century B.C. Each contributor has written a chapter that analyzes one or more historical events mentioned or alluded in the corpus of the Attic orators and covers the three species of Attic oratory. Chapters that treat other issues collectively are also included. The common feature of each contribution is an outline of the recent events that took place and influenced the citizens and/or the city of Athens and its juxtaposition with their rhetorical treatment by the orators either by comparing the rhetorical texts with the historical sources and/or by examining the rhetorical means through which the speakers model the recent past. This book aims at advanced students and professional scholars. This volume focuses on the representation of the recent past in classical Athenian oratory and investigates: the ability of the orators to interpret it according to their interests; the inability of the Athenians to make an objective assessment of persons and events of the recent past and their unwillingness to hear the truth, make self-criticism and take responsibility for bad results.
Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900454867X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Friendship (philia) is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is frequently attested in ancient Greek literature and thought. It is also an important social phenomenon and an institution that features in classical Greek social, cultural, and intellectual history. This collected volume seeks to complement the extensive modern scholarship on this topic by shedding light on complementary representations, nuances and tensions of friendship in a range of different sources, literary, epigraphic, and visual. It offers a broad overview of the contours of this important social phenomenon and helps the reader get a glimpse of its depth and richness.
Evidence and Proof in Ancient Greece
Author: Chris CareyPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527574849
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Whether in the courts, Parliament or the pub, to persuade you need proof, be that argument- or evidence-based. But what counts as proof, and as satisfactory proof, varies from culture to culture and from context to context. This volume assembles a range of experts in ancient Greek literature to address the theme of proof from different angles and in the works of different authors and contexts. Much of the focus is on the Athenian orators, who discussed the nature and kinds of proof from at least the fourth century BC and are still the subject of lively debate. But demonstration through evidence and argument and the language of proof are not limited to the lawcourts. They have a place in other literary forms, prose and verse, including drama and historiography, and these too feature in the collection. The book will be of interest to students and professional scholars in the fields of Greek literature and law, and Greek social and political history.
Colossae, Colossians, Philemon
Author: Alan H. CadwalladerPublisher: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
ISBN: 364750002X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 815
Book Description
The material culture of Colossae is here for the first time given as full a collation as possible to the present day. 38 inscriptions, 88 coins and 49 testimonia are brought together in the context of a thorough overview of the site of Colossae. These include evidence that has been thought lost or has been overlooked or misinterpreted or has only recently been discovered. New readings, insights and analyses of the material evidence are brought into a highly creative exchange with the two letters of the Second Testament connected with the site. The texts thereby become additional evidence for an appreciation of the life of a city in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The fullest collation of evidence for the ancient Phrygian city in the Greco-Roman period was the coin catalogue assembled by Hans von Aulock (1987). The most recent catalogue of the inscriptions of Colossae was published by William Calder and William Buckler in 1939. There has never been a full inventory of ancient writings that bear witness to the site. Alan H. Cadwallader in his volume not only updates this material by subjecting it to thorough, critical analysis in the light of comparative evidence from across the Roman province of Asia and the Mediterranean world. New discoveries from the site and from museums and collections in the United Kingdom, Europe, Russia, Australia and the United States are introduced. Into this assemblage and interpretation are brought the letters to the Colossians and Philemon in the Second Testament writings of the Christian Church. For the first time, the letters are released to be players in the highly competitive environment of a city negotiating its way in the new realities of imperial Rome. Here the letters and their recipients become participants in the society of the day, contributing, critiquing and struggling to forge an identity for the Christ followers within that world. Echoes of the gymnasium, gladiatorial spectacles, cosmological speculations, religious devotion and sanction, family structures, commerce and industry, struggles for justice, intercity competition and legal negotiations are found in the letters, echoes that witness to their participation in the life of Colossae. This is a radical new approach, incorporating the turn to material culture as the embedding of literature and its consumers rather than an embellishing backdrop.
Luxury and Wealth in Sparta and the Peloponnese
Author: Chrysanthi GallouPublisher: Classical Press of Wales
ISBN: 1910589845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A Spartan lifestyle proverbially describes austerity; ancient Greek luxury was associated with Ionia and the oriental world. The contributions to this book, first presented at a conference held by the University of Nottingham's Centre for Spartan and Peloponnesian Studies, reverse the stereotype and explore the role of luxury and wealth at Sparta and among its Peloponnesian neighbors from the Iron Age to the Hellenistic period. Using literary, archaeological, epigraphic and numismatic evidence, an international team of specialists investigates the definition and changing meanings of the term luxury and its nearest ancient Greek equivalents, providing new insights into Sparta's supposed abstention from luxury, and the way that this was portrayed by ancient writers. They analyse wealth production and private and public spending, emphasising features that were distinctive to Sparta and the Peloponnese compared with other parts of ancient Greece. Other chapters investigate issues still familiar in the contemporary world: economic crisis and debt, austerity measures, and relief provisions for the poor.