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Fathers and Sons in Athens - Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,880
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Fathers and Sons in Athens - Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War (Hardcover): Barry Strauss

Fathers and Sons in Athens - Ideology and Society in the Era of the Peloponnesian War (Hardcover)

Barry Strauss

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As history's first democracy, classical Athens invented political discourse. The Athenians, however, could not separate the political from the private sphere. Father-son relations, whether good or bad, were a major theme of public as well as private life. Perhaps most-often associated today with Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus", the father-son conflict appears in a wide variety of Athenian texts: in the writings of other tragedians and comic playwrights (Euripides, Aristophanes); in oratory; in the myth of Athens' national hero, Theseus; and even in the trial of Socrates. What is a historian to make of such widespread interest in the disquieting subjects of patricide, father-beating, murdering one's son, and intergenerational jealousy and political divisions? Professor Strauss argues that these themes are to be read as metaphors for the sweeping changes brought on by democracy, the Sophists, and the Peloponnesian war - indeed on one level that war was conceived of as a struggle of fathers and sons. Thus, family ideology had a powerful influence on the Athenian mind.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: September 1993
First published: 1993
Authors: Barry Strauss
Dimensions: 216 x 138 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-04146-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General
LSN: 0-415-04146-5
Barcode: 9780415041461

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