Solon The Athenian

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 : Josine Blok
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047408896
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solon of Athens written by Josine Blok and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 488 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 : 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 : Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351621440
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birth of the Athenian Community written by Sviatoslav Dmitriev and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Birth of the Athenian Community elucidates the social and political development of Athens in the sixth century, when, as a result of reforms by Solon and Cleisthenes (at the beginning and end of the sixth century, respectively), Athens turned into the most advanced and famous city, or polis, of the entire ancient Greek civilization. Undermining the current dominant approach, which seeks to explain ancient Athens in modern terms, dividing all Athenians into citizens and non-citizens, this book rationalizes the development of Athens, and other Greek poleis, as a gradually rising complexity, rather than a linear progression. The multidimensional social fabric of Athens was comprised of three major groups: the kinship community of the astoi, whose privileged status was due to their origins; the legal community of the politai, who enjoyed legal and social equality in the polis; and the political community of the demotai, or adult males with political rights. These communities only partially overlapped. Their evolving relationship determined the course of Athenian history, including Cleisthenes’ establishment of demokratia, which was originally, and for a long time, a kinship democracy, since it only belonged to qualified male astoi.

Author : Ivan Mortimer Linforth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solon the Athenian written by Ivan Mortimer Linforth and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Beatriz Santillian
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1508174946
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solon written by Beatriz Santillian and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2017-07-15 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A leader for the people, Solon would go down in history as the lawmaker who set the stage for Athens to become the first democratic state. Solon�s incorruptible spirit, along with his oratorical skills and poetry, were a refreshing break from the tyrants of his time, whom the people of Greek city-states feared as they rose to power. Readers will benefit from an understanding of how an environment of political turmoil bred a new, more inclusive system of law when what existed wasn't working for the people, while eye-catching call-outs offer insights that position historical background in the present.

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 : IVAN M. LINFORTH
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033083055
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book SOLON THE ATHENIAN written by IVAN M. LINFORTH and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern
Publisher : London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solon & Croesus written by Sir Alfred Eckhard Zimmern and published by London : Oxford University Press, H. Milford. This book was released on 1928 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solon and Croesus.--History as an art.--The study of Greek history.--Thucydides the imperialist.--Was Greek civilization based on slave labour?--Suggestions towards a political economy of the Greek city-state.