Athens The Truth

Author : Nicole Loraux
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Divided City written by Nicole Loraux and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-03 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient Athens. Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia, citizens call for---if not invent---amnesty. They agree to forget the unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis. More precisely, what they agree to deny is that stasis---simultaneously partisanship, faction, and sedition---is at the heart of their politics. Continuing a criticism of Athenian ideology begun in her pathbreaking study The Invention of Athens, Nicole Loraux argues that this crucial moment of Athenian political history must be interpreted as constitutive of politics and political life and not as a threat to it. Divided from within, the city is formed by that which it refuses. Conflict, the calamity of civil war, is the other, dark side of the beautiful unitary city of Athens. In a brilliant analysis of the Greek word for voting, diaphora, Loraux underscores the conflictual and dynamic motion of democratic life. Voting appears as the process of dividing up, of disagreement---in short, of agreeing to divide and choose. Not only does Loraux reconceptualize the definition of ancient Greek democracy, she also allows the contemporary reader to rethink the functioning of modern democracy in its critical moments of internal stasis.

Author : Pamela Dell
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756518745
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Socrates written by Pamela Dell and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the life of the famous philosopher.

Author : Marcel Detienne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780942299861
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Masters of Truth in Archaic Greece written by Marcel Detienne and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed French classicist Marcel Detienne's first book traces the odyssey of "truth," aletheia, from mytho-religious concept to philosophical thought in archaic Greece. Detienne begins by examining how truth in Greek literature first emerges as an enigma. He then looks at the movement from a religious to a secular thinking about truth in the speech of the sophists and orators. His study culminates with an original interpretation of Parmenides' poem on Being.

Author : Jon Hesk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521028714
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens written by Jon Hesk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of the ways in which classical Athenian texts represent and evaluate the morality of deception. It is particularly concerned with the way in which the telling of lies was a problem for the world's first democracy and compares this problem with the modern Western situation. There are major sections on Greek tragedy, comedy, oratory, historiography and philosophy.

Author : Michael Scott
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468302809
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Democrats to Kings written by Michael Scott and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2010-09-16 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A popular history of how the ancient world turned from a democracy to a monarchy and “shine[s] a light on the culture that bloomed as Athens faded.”(The Daily Mail) Athens, 404 BC. The Democratic city-state has been ravaged by a long and bloody war with neighboring Sparta. The search for scapegoats begins and Athens, liberty's beacon in the ancient world, turns its sword on its own way of life. Civil war and much bloodshed ensue. Defining moments of Greek history, culture, politics, religion and identity are debated ferociously in Athenian board rooms, back streets and battlefields. By 323 BC, Athens and the rest of Greece, not to mention a large part of the known world, has come under the control of an absolute monarch and a model for despots for millennia to come: Alexander the Great. In this superb popular history, Michael Scott explores the dramatic and little-known story of how the ancient world went from democracy to monarchy in less than 100 years. A superb example of popular history writing, From Democrats to Kings gives us a fresh take on the challenges we face today as democracies—old and new—fight for survival, in which war-time and peace-time have become indistinguishable and in which the severity of the economic crisis is only matched by a crisis in our own sense of self. “Accessible and punchy . . . a wide readership cannot fail to be entertained as well as instructed about a world that is both familiar and alien, modern as well as ancient.” —Paul Cartledge, author of Thermopylae “Gloriously entertaining and provocative.” —Tom Holland, author of Rubicon, Persian Fire

Author : Philip Matyszak
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
ISBN 13 : 1782439773
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 24 Hours in Ancient Athens written by Philip Matyszak and published by Michael O'Mara Books. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the course of a day we meet 24 ancient Athenians from all levels of society - from the slave-girl to the councilman, the fish-seller to the naval commander, the housewife to the hoplite - and get to know what the real Athens was like by spending an hour in their company.

Author : Page duBois
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131547087X
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals) written by Page duBois and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-17 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the concept of truth as something hidden in the human body. It discusses the tradition of understanding truth as something that is generally concealed and the ideas of ‘secret space’ in both the female body and the Greek temple. This philosophy and practice is related to Greek views of the ‘Other’ (women and outsiders) and considers the role of torture in distinguishing slave and free in ancient Athens. A wide range of perspectives — from Plato to Sartre — are employed to examine the subject.

Author : David Cade
Publisher : Tales of Orpheus
ISBN 13 : 9780955209031
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athens - the Truth written by David Cade and published by Tales of Orpheus. This book was released on 2013 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn to Athens through his interest in Greek composer Mános Hadjidákis, the author presents an account of what makes the city tick and an explanation of why Greece is as it is today.

Author : Katerina Zacharia
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004349987
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Converging Truths written by Katerina Zacharia and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-09-18 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of Euripides’ Ion, produced in 412 BC at a period of political crisis in Athens. Through careful analysis of its political, psychological, religious and poetic aspects and use of modern critical theory and recent scholarship on Athenian ethnicity, the Ion emerges as a polyphonic work expressing different and converging truths.

Author : Arlene W. Saxonhouse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139447424
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens written by Arlene W. Saxonhouse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-19 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech by contrasting it with the very different form of free speech that was practised by the ancient Athenians in their democratic regime. Free speech in the ancient democracy was not a protected right but an expression of the freedom from hierarchy, awe, reverence and shame. It was thus an essential ingredient of the egalitarianism of that regime. That freedom was challenged by the consequences of the rejection of shame (aidos) which had served as a cohesive force within the polity. Through readings of Socrates's trial, Greek tragedy and comedy, Thucydides's History, and Plato's Protagoras this volume explores the paradoxical connections between free speech, democracy, shame, and Socratic philosophy and Thucydidean history as practices of uncovering.