Details

Subjects:

Political science -- Greece -- History -- To 1500.
Political science -- Philosophy -- History -- To 1500.
Civilization, Modern -- Greek influences.
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Summary:

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.

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.

Notes:

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Other format:

Print version: Ostwald, Martin Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture

ISBN:

9780812206098
9780812241495

OCLC:

932312833