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The Divided City - On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens (Hardcover)
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The Divided City - On Memory and Forgetting in Ancient Athens (Hardcover)
Series: The Divided City
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Loot Price R571
Discovery Miles 5 710
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An exploration of the roles of conflict and forgetting in ancient
Athens. Athens, 403 B.C.E. The bloody oligarchic dictatorship of
the Thirty is over, and the democrats have returned to the city
victorious. Renouncing vengeance, in an act of willful amnesia,
citizens call for--if not invent--amnesty. They agree to forget the
unforgettable, the "past misfortunes," of civil strife or stasis.
More precisely, what they agree to deny is that
stasis--simultaneously partisanship, faction, and sedition--is at
the heart of their politics. Continuing a criticism of Athenian
ideology begun in her pathbreaking study The Invention of Athens,
Nicole Loraux argues that this crucial moment of Athenian political
history must be interpreted as constitutive of politics and
political life and not as a threat to it. Divided from within, the
city is formed by that which it refuses. Conflict, the calamity of
civil war, is the other, dark side of the beautiful unitary city of
Athens. In a brilliant analysis of the Greek word for voting,
diaphora, Loraux underscores the conflictual and dynamic motion of
democratic life. Voting appears as the process of dividing up, of
disagreement--in short, of agreeing to divide and choose. Not only
does Loraux reconceptualize the definition of ancient Greek
democracy, she also allows the contemporary reader to rethink the
functioning of modern democracy in its critical moments of internal
stasis.
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