Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture / / Martin Ostwald.
Spanning forty years, this collection of essays represents the work of a renowned teacher and scholar of the ancient Greek world. Martin Ostwald's contribution is both philological and historical: the thread that runs through all of the essays is his precise explanation, for a modern audience,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- A. Political Culture of the Polis
- 1. Shares and Rights: "Citizenship" Greek Style and American Style
- 2. Isokratia as a Political Concept (Herodotus, 5.92α.1)
- 3. Oligarchy and Oligarchs in Ancient Greece
- 4. Stasis and Autonomia in Samos: A Comment on an Ideological Fallacy
- 5. Peace and War in Plato and Aristotle
- B. Nomos in Greek History and Thought
- 6. Pindar, Nomos, and Heracles (Pindar, frg. 169 [Snell] and POxy. No. 2450, frg. 1)
- 7. Was There a Concept Agraphos Nomos in Classical Greece?
- 8. Nomos and Physis in Antiphon's Περί'Aληθείαϛ
- C. Constitutional and Political Institutions of Athens
- 9 Athenian Democracy - Reality or Illusion?
- 10. Public Expense: Whose Obligation? Athens 600-454 b.c.e.
- 11. Diodotus, Son of Eucrates
- 12. Athens and Chalkis: A Study in Imperial Control
- 13. The Areopagus in the Athenaion Politeia
- 14. The Sophists and Athenian Politics
- D. Literature and History
- 15. Herodotus and Athens
- 16. Thucydides
- Bibliography of Martin Ostwald
- English Index
- Greek Index
- Acknowledgments