Solon

Author : D F Leão
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857739301
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laws of Solon written by D F Leão and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings of Herodotus and Plutarch that his constitutional reforms against the venality, greed and political power-play of Attica's tyrants and noblemen were hugely influential-and may even be said to have laid the foundations of western democracy. Solon's legal injunctions covered the widest range of topics and issues: economics and labour; sexual morality; social issues; and society and politics. Yet despite their fame and influence (and Solon's life and work generated a lively reception history), no complete edition of these writings has yet been published. This book offers the definitive critical edition of Solon's laws that has long been needed. It comprises the original Greek fragments with English translations, commentaries, a comprehensive introduction and important comparative Latin texts. It will be enthusiastically welcomed by specialists in ancient Greek language and history.

Author : John David Lewis
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472521145
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solon the Thinker written by John David Lewis and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its people, depends upon their acceptance of justice and moderation as orderly norms of life, and leads to the rejection of tyranny and slavery in favour of freedom. But Solon's naturalistic views are limited; in his own life each person is subject to the arbitrary foibles of moira, the inscrutable fate that governs human life, and that brings us to an unknowable but inevitable death. Solon represents both the new rational, scientific spirit that was sweeping the Aegean - and a return to the fatalism that permeated Greek intellectual life. This first paperback edition contains a new appendix of translations of the fragments of Solon by the author.

Author : Maria Noussia Fantuzzi
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004174788
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solon the Athenian, the Poetic Fragments written by Maria Noussia Fantuzzi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the authoritative voice of Solon of Athens by an integrated literary, historical, and philological approach and the use of a range of hermeneutic frameworks, from literary theory to oral poetics.

Author : Ron Owens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781845194031
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solon of Athens written by Ron Owens and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solon of Athens was an historical figure of great significance, quoted by some 115 classical and post-classical authors. Yet in terms of recent scholarship, no one since Woodhouse (1938) has written exclusively on Solon, and not since Linforth (1919) has there been a commentary on each individual fragment of Solon's poetry. This book fills a significant gap in Greek scholarship in terms of historical analysis, political development, and the beginnings of philosophy in the Greek archaic period. The book addresses the historical, social, and political contexts within which Solon of Athens instituted wide-ranging reforms to the Athenian constitution (594-93 BCE). It also looks at the impact of those reforms on the growing political self-awareness of the archaic Athenians themselves and the developing ethical and political philosophies that drove reform. The book provides a detailed and comprehensive commentary on each of the 43 extant fragments of Solon's poetry. In the light of modern scholarship, the book sets out the story of Solon's life and examines the nature of the entrenched and threatening political and economic crisis which led to his appointment to high political office. It discusses the manner and consequences of Solon's appointment, identifying both the underlying causes of the crisis and the general outlines of the reform measures adopted by Solon. As well, the book explores both the philosophy and the concept of 'justice' that appears to have underpinned Solon's reform agenda.

Author : Joseph A. Almeida
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402138
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Justice as an Aspect of the Polis Idea in Solon's Political Poems written by Joseph A. Almeida and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the meaning of justice or dike in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The first two chapters argue that neither standard historical nor literary treatments have provided an adequate foundation for understanding Solon’s dike. The main defect lies in an inability to connect Solon’s concrete political work with his poetic perceptions. The book’s central proposal is that the polis idea, from new classical archaeology, provides an objective standard for an interpretation of Solon’s dike, which remedies this defect. The third chapter sets forth the polis idea, which becomes the measure for an examination, in the final two chapters, of Solon’s view of dike. The book thus exhibits an interdisciplinary approach to Archaic poetry.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.4W/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plutarch's Lives of Romulus, Lycurgus, Solon ... and Others and His Comparisons written by Plutarch and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : United States. 61st Congress, 1909-1911. House. [from old catalog]
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 922 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book (Hearings) ... written by United States. 61st Congress, 1909-1911. House. [from old catalog] and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 922 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josine Blok
Publisher : Mnemosyne, Supplements
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solon of Athens written by Josine Blok and published by Mnemosyne, Supplements. This book was released on 2006 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback for the first time, this collection of essays by specialists in the field offers fundamentally new perspectives on the poetry, laws, and historical facts associated with the figure of Solon of Athens.

Author : American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John E. Rexine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Solon and His Political Theory written by John E. Rexine and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: