Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture.
Title:
Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture.
Author:
Ostwald, Martin.
ISBN:
9780812206098
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (330 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- A Political Culture of the Polis -- Chapter 1. Shares and Rights: "Citizenship" Greek Style and American Style -- Chapter 2. Isokratia as a Political Concept -- Chapter 3. Oligarchy and Oligarchs in Ancient Greece -- Chapter 4. Stasis and Autonomia in Samos: A Comment on an Ideological Fallacy -- Chapter 5. Peace and War in Plato and Aristotle -- B Nomos in GreekHistory and Thought -- Chapter 6. Pindar, Nomos, and Heracles (Pindar, frg. 169 [Snell3] and POxy. No. 2450, frg. 1) -- Chapter 7. Was There a Concept Agraphos Nomos in Classical Greece? -- Chapter 8. Nomos and Physis in Antiphon's -- C Constitutional and PoliticalInstitutions of Athens -- Chapter 9. Athenian Democracy-Reality or Illusion? -- Chapter 10. Public Expense: Whose Obligation? Athens 600-454 b.c.e. -- Chapter 11. Diodotus, Son of Eucrates -- Chapter 12. Athens and Chalkis: A Study in Imperial Control -- Chapter 13. The Areopagus in the Athenaion Politeia -- Chapter 14. The Sophists and Athenian Politics -- D Literature and History -- Chapter 15. Herodotus and Athens -- Chapter 16. Thucydides -- Bibliography of Martin Ostwald -- Index -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
Renowned scholar of Ancient Greek Martin Ostwald explains, for a modern audience, the terms by which the ancient Greeks saw and lived their lives-and influenced ours.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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