Author: Joseph M. BryantPublisher:
ISBN: 9780585042701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece
Author: Joseph M. BryantPublisher:
ISBN: 9780585042701
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece
Author: Joseph M. BryantPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791430415
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
An exercise in cultural sociology, Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece seeks to explicate the dynamic currents of classical Hellenic ethics and social philosophy by situating those idea-complexes in their socio-historical and intellectual contexts. Central to this enterprise is a comprehensive historical-sociological analysis of the Polis form of social organization, which charts the evolution of its basic institutions, roles, statuses, and class relations. From the Dark Age period of "genesis" on to the Hellenistic era of "eclipse" by the emergent forces of imperial patrimonialism, Polis society promoted and sustained corresponding normative codes which mobilized and channeled the requisite emotive commitments and cognitive judgments for functional proficiency under existing conditions of life. The aristocratic warrior-ethos canonized in the Homeric epics; the civic ideology of equality and justice espoused by reformist lawgivers and poets; the democratization of status honor and martial virtue that attended the shift to hoplite warfare; the philosophical exaltation of the Polis-citizen bond as found in the architectonic visions of Plato and Aristotle; and the subsequent retreat from civic virtues and the interiorization of value articulated by the Skeptics, Epicureans, and Stoics, new age philosophies in a world remade by Alexander's conquests--these are the key phases in the evolving currents of Hellenic moral discourse, as structurally framed by transformations within the institutional matrix of Polis society.
Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Ancient Greece: from Homer to the End of the Fifth Century
Author: Arthur W. H. AdkinsPublisher: Chatto & Windus
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Morality and Behaviour in Democratic Athens
Author: Gabriel HermanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521850215
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Provides a model for societal behaviour and morality in ancient Athens.
Morality and Custom in Ancient Greece
Author: John M. DillonPublisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253345264
Category : Athens (Greece)
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Explores the social and familial relations of the ancient Greeks.
Reciprocity in Ancient Greece
Author: Christopher GillPublisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN: 0198149972
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Reciprocity has been seen as an important notion for anthropologists studying economic and social relations, and this volume examines it in connection with Greek culture from Homer to the Hellenistic period.
Moral Values and Political Behaviour in Ancient Greece: From Homer to the End of the Fifth Century
Author: A. W. H. AdkinsPublisher: W. W. Norton
ISBN: 9780393008265
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
In this book, Professor Adkins undertakes an examination of certain key value-words in the period between Homer and the end of the fifth century. The behavior of these words both affected and was affected by the nature of the society in which their usage developed. The author shows how only with a complete understanding of the implications and significance of these value-words can the essence of the Greeks and their society be grasped.
Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle
Author: K. J. DoverPublisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 9780872202450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
In ancient Greece, as today, popular moral attitudes differed importantly from the theories of moral philosophers. While for the latter we have Plato and Aristotle, this insightful work explores the everyday moral conceptions to which orators appealed in court and political assemblies, and which were reflected in non-philosophical literature. Oratory and comedy provide the primary testimony, and reference is also made to Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, and other sources. The selection of topics, the contrasts and comparisons with modern religious, social and legal principles, and accessibility to the non-specialist ensure the work's appeal to all readers with an interest in ancient Greek culture and social life.
Morals and Values in Ancient Greece
Author: John FergusonPublisher: Bristol Classical Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Charts the progression of morals and values in the Greek world
A Problem in Greek Ethics
Author: John Addington SymondsPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
Book Description
A Problem in Greek Ethics is a book by John Addington Symonds. It tackles some ancient Greek traditions where young boys were judged appealingly superior to women or adult men.