The Ancient Greek Roots of Human Rights (Hardcover)

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 confluences of cultural factors facing ancient Greeks and eighteenth-century Europeans that facilitated the creation and transmission of humane values across history. Rachel Hall Sternberg argues that precursors to the concept of human rights exist in the ancient articulation of emotion, though the ancient Greeks, much like eighteenth-century European societies, often failed to live up to those values. Merging the history of ideas with cultural history, Sternberg examines literary themes upholding empathy and human dignity from Thucydides's and Xenophon's histories to Voltaire's Candide, and from Greek tragic drama to the eighteenth-century novel. She describes shared impacts of the trauma of war, the appeal to reason, and the public acceptance of emotion that encouraged the birth and rebirth of humane values.

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Rachel Hall Sternberg
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	184
ISBN-13:	978-1-4773-2291-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > Human rights > General Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	1-4773-2291-4
Barcode:	9781477322918

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