The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights /

The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights / / Rachel Hall Sternberg.

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2022 PROSE Award Finalist in Classics Although the era of the Enlightenment witnessed the rise of philosophical debates around benevolent social practice, the origins of European humane discourse date further back, to Classical Athens. The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights analyzes the parallel co...

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Sternberg, Rachel Hall,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (184 p.) :; 3 b&w illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Timeline for Greece
  • Key to Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Exploration A: Enlightened Athens in the Age of Jefferson
  • PART I PARALLEL WAVES
  • CHAPTER 1 The Turn toward Reason
  • CHAPTER 2 Warfare
  • CHAPTER 3 Empathy and Tears
  • CHAPTER 4 Humane Discourse
  • Exploration B: Cyrus the Great
  • PART II ANCIENT GREEK ROOTS
  • CHAPTER 5 Elements of Respect
  • CHAPTER 6 Paths through Time
  • Exploration C: Tensions
  • Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Subject Index
  • Index of Ancient Passages

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