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Historical Agency and the 'Great Man' in Classical Greece (Hardcover)
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Historical Agency and the 'Great Man' in Classical Greece (Hardcover)
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The 'great man' of later Greek historical thought is the long
product of traceable changes in ancient ideas about the meaning and
impact of an individual life. At least as early as the birth of the
Athenian democracy, questions about the ownership of the motion of
history were being publicly posed and publicly challenged. The
responses to these questions, however, gradually shifted over time,
in reaction to historical and political developments during the
fifth and fourth centuries BC. These ideological changes are
illuminated by portrayals of the roles played by individuals and
groups in significant historical events, as depicted in
historiography, funerary monuments, and inscriptions. The emergence
in these media of the individual as an indispensable agent of
history provides an additional explanation for the reception of
Alexander 'the Great': the Greek world had long since been prepared
to understand him as it did.
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