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13 produkter
Law, Rhetoric and Comedy in Classical Athens
Essays in Honour of Douglas M. Macdowell
Inbunden, 2004
1011 kr
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An international cast of distinguished scholars here offers seventeen new contributions on the detail and development of Athenian law; the life, work, and political background of the Attic orators; and the intersection of Attic Comedy with Athenian law, politics, and society. In their detailed and …
Dialectic in Action
An Examination of Plato's Crito
Inbunden, 2005
977 kr
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Plato's Crito examines a single moral decision, whether Socrates ought to escape from his death-cell. Stokes' book discusses Socrates' arguments against Crito's offer of escape. It construes Socrates' questions as genuine questions, which clarify and undermine Crito's positions. Stokes's approach …
Satyr Drama
Tragedy at Play
Inbunden, 2005
1058 kr
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The esteem in which satyr drama was held in antiquity still arouses curiosity and controversy. Twelve new papers, generated in North America by a distinguished cast of scholars, explore questions central to the genre. How did satyr drama relate to comedy and tragedy; how closely was it tied to its …
New Essays on Plato
Language and Thought in Fourth-Century Greek Philosophy
Inbunden, 2007
822 kr
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New Essays on Plato assembles nine original papers on the language and thought of the Athenian philosopher. The collection encompasses issues from the Apology to the Laws and includes discussions of topics in ethics, political theory, psychology, epistemology, ontology, physics and metaphysics, and …
Dionysalexandros
Essays on Aeschylus and His Fellow Tragedians in Honour of Alexander F. Garvie
Av Douglas Cairns, Vayos Liapis
Inbunden, 2006
1011 kr
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In seventeen original essays, a distinguished international cast considers the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. There are detailed studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to tragic text and interpretation, and of the …
Words and Ideas
The Roots of Plato's Philosophy
Inbunden, 2007
920 kr
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Plato did not create his philosophy ex nihilo, but rather drew on four centuries of literary production in epic and lyric poetry, on ethnography and historiography, tragedy and comedy, medical and mathematical research, oratory and rhetorical theory, as well as on Presocratic philosophy. Words & …
Thucydides
Man's Place in History
Häftad, 2009
455 kr
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Stahl's classic book on Thucydides, here in English for the first time, penetrates as few others to the Greek writer's deepest interests. Stahl reveals Thucydides' work as a study in the fallibility of human projections. Above all, Thucydides is shown as interested in tracking how optimistic plans …
Tragedy and Archaic Greek Thought
Inbunden, 2013
1058 kr
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Eight leading contemporary interpreters of Classical Greek tragedy here explore its relation to the thought of the Archaic Period. Prominent topics are the nature and possibility of divine justice; the influence of the gods on humans; fate and human responsibility; the instability of fortune and …
Eyesore of Aigina
Anti-Athenian Attitudes Across the Greek, the Hellenistic and the Roman Worlds
Inbunden, 2016
1020 kr
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Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others - whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans - saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the …
Misery and Forgiveness in Euripides
Meaning and Structure in the 'Hippolytus'
Inbunden, 2015
1139 kr
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The tragedies of Euripides are among the most admired works of Greek literature. They are valued especially in our own day for their sceptical attitude to authority and divinity, for their psychological complexity and for their sympathetic but unsentimental portrayal of assertive women. In this …
Xenophon and the Graces of Power
A Greek Guide to Political Manipulation
Inbunden, 2018
1139 kr
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One of classical Greece's most worldly and lucid writers, Xenophon across his many works gave a restless criticism of power: democratic, oligarchic and autocratic. From military campaigns (in which he took part), through the great powers of his day (Sparta, Persia, Athens) to modes of control …
Hegemonic Finances
Funding Athenian Domination in the 5th and 4th Centuries BC
Av T.J. Figueira, Sean R. Jensen
Inbunden, 2019
1020 kr
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Research into the mechanisms and the morality of Athenian hegemony is now perhaps livelier than ever. Of particular importance are the methods by which Athens drew money from the Aegean world with which to fund a vast fleet, to facilitate her own demokratia and to create ambitious public buildings …
Reason and Necessity
Essays on Plato's Timaeus
Av M.R. Wright
Häftad, 2023
428 kr
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Plato's Timaeus contains a powerful and influential myth, of the construction of the universe by a divine craftsman. A god imposes reason on necessity, to bring order from a primeval 'receptacle' of disordered matter. There results the 'child' that is the cosmos - a copy of an eternally-existing …
