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