Justice as an aspect of the polis idea in Solon's political poems : : a reading of the fragments in light of the researches of new classical archaeology / / by Joseph A. Almeida.

This book examines the meaning of justice or dike in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The first two chapters argue that neither standard historical nor literary treatments have provided an adequate foundation for understanding Solon’s dike . The main defect lies in...

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Superior document:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 243
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Year of Publication:2003
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 243.
Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • INTRODUCTION
  • SOLON: HISTORICAL SOURCES AND SCHOLARSHIP: WHAT WE DO AND DO NOT KNOW
  • LITERARY CRITICISM OF SOLON'S POLITICAL POEMS AFTER JAEGER
  • THE POLIS IDEA IN THE WORK OF THE NEW CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS
  • THE LEXICOGRAPHY AND INTERNAL POETICS OF DIKE
  • SOLON'S UNDERSTANDING OF DIKE IN LIGHT OF THE POLIS IDEA
  • CONCLUDING REFLECTIONS
  • THE ATTHIDOGRAPHERS AND THE PRESERVATION OF THE AXONES
  • REGIONALIST THEORIES OF CONFLICT IN ARCHAIC GREECE
  • HANSEN ON SOLON IN THE ORATORS AND THE MINIMUM ARISTOTELIAN VIEW OF SOLON'S DEMOCRATIC REFORMS
  • PARTICULARS IN THE DISCUSSION OF SOLON'S CHRONOLOGY
  • Πρα̑σıϛ ἐπí λύσεı
  • THE HOPLITE AND THE POLIS: BRIEF MISCELLANEA
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX
  • SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE by H. PINKSTER , H.S. VERSNEL , D.M. SCHENKEVELD , P. H. SCHRIJVERS and S.R. SLINGS.