The People Of Aristophanes Routledge Revivals

Author : Victor Ehrenberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135090300
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People of Aristophanes (Routledge Revivals) written by Victor Ehrenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1951, The People of Aristophanes provides a sociological account of Athens in the period of its greatest glory. Drawing upon Old Attic Comedy and the plays of Aristophanes, the author recreates, for the reader, the life of Athens at that time. He writes extensively about social structure, family, religion and political relationships within the state, and discusses the far-reaching changes which took place within Athenian society.

Author : Victor Ehrenberg
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Total Pages : 384 pages
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Download or read book The People of Aristophanes written by Victor Ehrenberg and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Claude Mossé
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317754301
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athens in Decline (Routledge Revivals) written by Claude Mossé and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens has, at different times and from different points of view, been cited as a model of moderate democracy and triumphant humanism, or, on the contrary, as an illustration of the disorders due to demagoguery and misguided imperialism. Professor Mossé looks beyond these judgments to discuss the exceptional destiny of Athens – a city which for two centuries dominated the Eastern Mediterranean world, but then faded from the political scene when Rome extended its control over the whole Mediterranean. The history of Athenian democracy does not end in 404 BC, as is sometimes thought, when the city capitulated to Sparta at the end of its Golden Age. Athens in Decline, first published in 1973, demonstrates how the city experienced another seventy-five years of greatness, and survived, more or less curtailed, under Macedonian domination. She examines the reasons for the final collapse and follows the stages of a decline which was not wholly without grandeur.

Author : Gilbert Murray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317913302
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humanist Essays (Routledge Revivals) written by Gilbert Murray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1964, this is a short collection of both literary and philosophical essays. Whilst two essays consider Greek literature written at the point at which the Athenian empire was breaking apart, another group explore the background from which Christianity arose, considering Paganism and the religious philosophy at the time of Christ. These, in particular, display Gilbert Murray’s ‘profound belief in ethics and disbelief in all revelational religions’ as well as his conviction that the roots of our society lie within Greek civilization. Finally, there is an interesting discussion of Order and the motives of those who seek to overthrow it.

Author : Victor Ehrenberg
Publisher : Porcupine Press
ISBN 13 : 9780879910617
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The People of Aristophanes written by Victor Ehrenberg and published by Porcupine Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frank Vatai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131774974X
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Intellectuals in Politics in the Greek World (Routledge Revivals) written by Frank Vatai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intellectuals in Politics in the Greek World, first published in 1984, was the first comprehensive study of this recurrent theme in political sociology with specific reference to antiquity, and led to significant revaluation of the role of intellectuals in everyday political life. The term ‘intellectual’ is carefully defined, and figures as diverse as Pythagoras, Plato and Aristotle; Isocrates, Heracleides of Ponteius and Clearchus of Soli are discussed. The author examines the difference between the success of an intellectual politician, like Solon, and the failure of those such as Plato who attempted to mould society to abstract ideals. It is concluded that, ultimately, most philosophers were conspicuously unsuccessful when they intervened in politics: citizens regarded them as propagandists for their rulers, while rulers treated them as intellectual ornaments. The result was that many thinkers retreated to inter-scholastic disputation where the political objects of discussion increasingly became far removed from contemporary reality.

Author : Lauren K. Taaffe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317700155
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristophanes and Women (Routledge Revivals) written by Lauren K. Taaffe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider much more closely the conditions of the plays’ ancient productions when evaluating their ostensible themes. Three plays are focused upon: Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, and Ecclesiazusae. All seem to speak quite eloquently to contemporary concerns about women’s rights, the value of women’s work, and the relationships between women and war, literary representation and politics. On the one hand, Professor Taaffe tries to retrieve what an ancient Athenian audience may have l appreciated about these plays and what their central theses may have meant within that culture. On the other hand, Aristophanes is discussed from the perspective of a late twentieth-century, specifically female, reader.

Author : Barry Strauss
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317697685
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athens after the Peloponnesian War (Routledge Revivals) written by Barry Strauss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-17 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians are used to studying the origins of war. The rebuilding in the aftermath of war is a subject that – at least in the case of Athens – has received far less attention. Along with the problems of reconstructing the economy and replenishing the population, the problem of renegotiating political consensus was equally acute. Athens after the Peloponnesian War, first published in 1986, undertakes a radically new investigation into the nature of Athenian political groups. The general model of ‘faction’ provided by political anthropology provides an indispensable paradigm for the Athenian case. More widely, Professor Strauss argues for the importance of the economic, social and ideological changes resulting from the Peloponnesian War in the development of political nexus. Athens after the Peloponnesian War offers a detailed demographic analysis, astute insight into political discourse, and is altogether one of the most thorough treatments of this important period in the Athenian democracy.

Author : R. F. Willetts
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317752961
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete (Routledge Revivals) written by R. F. Willetts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aristocratic Society in Ancient Crete, first published in 1955, investigates the emergence and progress of Dorian society on Crete from the 8th century BC onwards. The major contribution of Cretan culture in this period was in the field of law – law and order are traditionally linked, and Dorian Crete remained steadfast in its pursuit of order. The author offers an explanation for the protracted aristocratic character of Cretan society, basing his study on the crucial Code of Gortyna. The primitive foundations of the social system are examined, illuminating the tribal institutions which formed the basis of the aristocratic states which developed. The four classes of the Cretan states, and the mutual relations of these classes, are defined, and the stages whereby family institutions developed are analysed. Finally, political and judicial organisation is scrutinised, and the Cretan culture is situated in the wider horizon of Mediterranean civilisation.

Author : Onno Van Nijf
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317575997
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade, Transport and Society in the Ancient World (Routledge Revivals) written by Onno Van Nijf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1992, presents an introduction to the nature of trade and transport in antiquity through a selection of translated literary, papyrological, epigraphical and legal sources. These texts illustrate a range of aspects of ancient trade and transport: from the role of the authorities, to the status of traders, to the capacity and speed of ancient ships. It is clear that the actual means of transportation were crucial; the book illustrates the limitations of ancient transport technology and the consequences for the development of commerce. It focuses first on different aspects of transport over land and then on transport by river and concludes with a discussion of several aspects of ancient seafaring, This book is ideal for students of ancient history.