Order and History: The world of the polis
Author | : Eric Voegelin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Eric Voegelin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Bible |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mogens Herman Hansen |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2006-10-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199208492 |
An accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state. Mogens Herman Hansen addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political culture, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.
Author | : Rosalind Thomas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2019-04-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107193583 |
Re-assesses the phenomenon of Greek 'local history-writing' and its role in creating political and cultural identity in a changing world.
Author | : Eric Voegelin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Civilization |
ISBN | : 9780826212504 |
Author | : Johann P. Arnason |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2013-04-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118561678 |
The Greek Polis and the Invention of Democracy presents a series of essays that trace the Greeks’ path to democracy and examine the connection between the Greek polis as a citizen state and democracy as well as the interaction between democracy and various forms of cultural expression from a comparative historical perspective and with special attention to the place of Greek democracy in political thought and debates about democracy throughout the centuries. Presents an original combination of a close synchronic and long diachronic examination of the Greek polis - city-states that gave rise to the first democratic system of government Offers a detailed study of the close interactionbetween democracy, society, and the arts in ancient Greece Places the invention of democracy in fifth-century bce Athens both in its broad social and cultural context and in the context of the re-emergence of democracy in the modern world Reveals the role Greek democracy played in the political and intellectual traditions that shaped modern democracy, and in the debates about democracy in modern social, political, and philosophical thought Written collaboratively by an international team of leading scholars in classics, ancient history, sociology, and political science
Author | : Chester G. Starr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1986-02-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195364988 |
During the three centuries from 800 to 500 B.C., the Greek world evolved from a primitive society--both culturally and economically--to one whose artistic products dominated all Mediterranean markets, supported by a wide overseas trade. In the following two centuries came the literary, philosophical, and artistic masterpieces of the classic area. Vital to this advance was the development of the polis, a collective institution in which citizens had rights as well as duties under the rule of law, a system hitherto unknown in human history. In this study, the first systematic exploration of the forces that created the political framework of Greek civilization, Chester Starr shows how the Greeks emerged form a Homeric world of individuals to the polis of 500 B.C. The age-old conflict between the self-serving demands of human beings and the less vocally-expressed needs of the community serves as the backbone of Starr's interdisciplinary analysis of the rise of the polis.
Author | : Sian Lewis |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780807846216 |
Sian Lewis explores the role of news and information in shaping Greek society from the sixth to the fourth centuries, b.c. Applying ideas from the study of modern media to her analysis of the functions of gossip, travel, messengers, inscriptions, and inst
Author | : David A. Blome |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 111 |
Release | : 2020-04-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501747614 |
Greek Warfare beyond the Polis assesses the nature and broader significance of warfare in the mountains of classical Greece. Based on detailed reconstructions of four unconventional military encounters, David A. Blome argues that the upland Greeks of the classical mainland developed defensive strategies to guard against external aggression. These strategies enabled wide-scale, sophisticated actions in response to invasions, but they did not require the direction of a central, federal government. Blome brings these strategies to the forefront by driving ancient Greek military history and ancient Greek scholarship "beyond the polis" into dialogue with each other. As he contends, beyond-the-polis scholarship has done much to expand and refine our understanding of the ancient Greek world, but it has overemphasized the importance of political institutions in emergent federal states and has yet to treat warfare involving upland Greeks systematically or in depth. In contrast, Greek Warfare beyond the Polis scrutinizes the sociopolitical roots of warfare from beyond the polis, which are often neglected in military histories of the Greek city-state. By focusing on the significance of warfare vis-à-vis the sociopolitical development of upland polities, Blome shows that although the more powerful states of the classical Greek world were dismissive or ignorant of the military capabilities of upland Greeks, the reverse was not the case. The Phocians, Aetolians, Acarnanians, and Arcadians in circa 490–362 BCE were well aware of the arrogant attitudes of their aggressive neighbors, and as highly efficient political entities, they exploited these attitudes to great effect.
Author | : Marc Domingo Gygax |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2021-02-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108842054 |
Analyses elite public generosity as a structural feature of the polis throughout all periods of ancient Greek history.
Author | : Richard Seaford |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-01-12 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1139504878 |
This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.