The Associations Of Classical Athens
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Author | : Richard Garner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2014-03-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317800516 |
Law and Society in Classical Athens, first published in 1987, traces the development of legal thought and its relation to Athenian values. Previously Athens’ courts have been regarded as chaotic, isolated from the rest of society and even bizarre. The importance of rhetoric and the mischief made by Aristophanes have devalued the legal process in the eyes of modern scholars, whilst the analysis of legal codes and practice has seemed dauntingly complex. Professor Garner aims to situate the Athenian legal system within the general context of abstract thought on justice and of the democratic politics of the fifth century. His work is a valuable source of information on all aspects of Athenian law and its relation to culture.
Author | : Nicholas F. Jones |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Associations, institutions, etc |
ISBN | : 0195121759 |
Nicholas Jones's book examines the associations of Athens during the classical democracy of the fifth and fourth centuries B.C. Village communities, cultic groups, brotherhoods, sacerdotal families, philosophical schools, and other organizations are studied collectively under Aristotle's umbrella concept of "community," or koinonia. All such "communities," argues Jones, acquired their distinctive characteristics in response to certain key features of the contemporary democratic governmentegalitarian ideology, direct rule, minority citizen participation, and the statutory exclusion of non-citizens. Thus elite social clubs provided a haven for beleaguered aristocrats; the phylai, often referred to as "tribes," evolved a mechanism for representing their special interests before the city government; an alternative territorially defined village afforded an associational life for the disfranchised; and in various groups we witness the beginnings of the inclusion of women, foreigners, and even slaves. No association, it turns out, can be fully understood except in terms of its relation to the central government. Some confirmation of the model is elicited from the design of the Cretan City in Plato's Laws, a utopian policy arguably reflecting the arrangements of the author's own Athens. Jones's book closes with a classification of the various associational "responses" and weighs the possibility that the classical Athens it reconstructs was the work of the democracy's founder, Kleisthenes.
Author | : Nicholas F. Jones |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 1999-02-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195352831 |
Jones' book examines the associations of ancient Athens under the classical democracy (508/7-321 B.C.) in light of their relations to the central government. Associations of all types--village communities, cultic groups, brotherhoods, sacerdotal families, philosophical schools, and others--emerge as fundamentally similar instances of Aristotelian koinoniai. Each, it is argued, acquired its distinctive character in response to particular features of the contemporary democracy. The analysis results in the first integrated, holistic institutional reconstruction of Greece's first city.
Author | : Sheramy Bundrick |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2005-10-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780521848060 |
Bundrick proposes that depictions of musical performance were linked to contemporary developments in music.
Author | : Joint Association of Classical Teachers |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521698537 |
Classical Athens boasted one of the most impressive flowerings of civilisation ever known, with original and influential achievements in literature, art, philosophy, medicine and politics. This second edition of the best-selling textbook provides a highly readable and fully illustrated introduction to Classical Athens.
Author | : Susan Lape |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 357 |
Release | : 2010-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139484125 |
In Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy, Susan Lape demonstrates how a race ideology grounded citizen identity. Although this ideology did not manifest itself in a fully developed race myth, its study offers insight into the causes and conditions that can give rise to race and racisms in both modern and pre-modern cultures. In the Athenian context, racial citizenship emerged because it both defined and justified those who were entitled to share in the political, symbolic, and socioeconomic goods of Athenian citizenship. By investigating Athenian law, drama, and citizenship practices, this study shows how citizen identity worked in practice to consolidate national unity and to account for past Athenian achievements. It also considers how Athenian identity narratives fuelled Herodotus' and Thucydides' understanding of history and causation.
Author | : Joint Association of Classical Teachers. Greek Course |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2007-07-30 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 0521698510 |
Second edition of best-selling one-year introductory course in ancient Greek for students and adults. This volume contains a narrative adapted entirely from ancient authors in order to encourage students rapidly to develop their reading skills. The texts and numerous illustrations also provide a good introduction to Greek culture.
Author | : Nicholas F. Jones |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2011-02-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0812202376 |
Much of the evidence—literary, historical, documentary, and pictorial—from ancient Athens is urban in authorship, subject matter, and intended audience. The result has been the assertion of an undifferentiated monolithic "Athenian" citizen regime as often as not identifiably urban in its lifestyle, preoccupations, and attitude. In Rural Athens Under the Democracy, however, Nicholas F. Jones undertakes the first comprehensive attempt to reconstruct on its own terms the world of rural Attica outside the walls during the "classical" fifth and fourth centuries B.C. What he finds is a distinctly nonurban (and nonurbane) order dominated by a traditional, predominantly agrarian society and culture. Jones relies heavily upon the relatively neglected epigraphic record from the rural countryside and villages, as well as posing new questions of the well-known urban writings of Athenian historians, essayists, and philosophers and occasionally following the lead of Hesiod's agrarian poem Works and Days. From these sources he gleans new findings regarding settlement patterns, argues for a heretofore unrecognized system of personal patronage, explores relations between villages and the town of Athens, reconstructs the "Agrarian" Dionysia in several of its more important dimensions, and contrasts the realities of rural Attic culture with their various representations in contemporary literary and philosophical writings by Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato, and others. Building on Jones's previous publications on the ancient Greek city-state, Rural Athens Under the Democracy presents the first holistic examination of classical extramural Attica. He challenges the received view that ancient Athens in its heyday was marked by a uniform cultural, ideological, and conspicuously citified order and, in place of the perception of things rural as mere deficits in urbanity, proposes that we look at Attica outside the walls in its own right and in positive terms.
Author | : Anna Missiou |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521111404 |
The first full study of the relationship between literacy and democracy in fifth-century Athens. Through a close analysis of key democratic institutions, such as ostracism, the Council of 500, and the demes and tribes, Missiou argues that literacy was widespread among the common citizens of Athens.
Author | : Claire Bidart |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2020-10-22 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1108841430 |
Innovative study examining how relationships and personal networks evolve throughout life, and how these connect individuals and society.