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The relationship between law, politics and society in democratic Athens is a central but neglected aspect of ancient Greek history that is beginning to attract increasing interest. Nomos brings together ten essays by a group of British and American scholars who aim to explore ways in which Athenian legal texts can be read in their social and cultural context. The focus is on classical Athens, since that is where the evidence is fullest, but the range of sources examined is broad, including the whole spectrum of literary and epigraphical texts, with special reference to the corpus of Athenian forensic oratory. All passages from Greek are translated; technical and legal terms, modern as well as ancient, are explained in a comprehensive glossary. These essays are designed to be accessible to those interested in social history and legal anthropology, as well as to historians of the ancient world.
This book examines how the various groups of people of which the polis of Classical Athens was composed got on together--or failed to do so. The authors collectively bring out what was distinctive about life in an ancient Greek city that was unusual both in its size and social complexity and in the extent of the democracy it practiced. The emphasis is broadly on the great success of the Athenians' communal experiment but tensions and fissures arising from religious, sexual, economic and political differences are not elided or glossed over.
Lending and borrowing were commonplace in Athens during the fourth century BC and could involve interest rates, security and banks, but the part played by credit was very different from its familiar role in capitalist society. Using a combination of sources, but concentrating on the law-court speeches of the Attic orators, Dr Millett shows that it is possible to see how lending and borrowing were a way of ordering social relations between Athenian citizens. Although debt could be disruptive, it had as its more positive side the strengthening of ties between individuals. That was, in turn, an aspect of the solidarity between citizens that was a part of the Athenian democracy.
'Kosmos' is the word the ancient Greeks used for human social
order. It has therefore a special application to the Greeks'
peculiar social and political unit of communal life that they
called the 'polis'. Of the many hundreds of such units in classical
Greece the best documented and the most complex was democratic
Athens. The purpose of this collective 1998 volume is to
re-evaluate the foundations of classical Athens' highly successful
experiment in communal social existence. Topics addressed include
religion and ritualization, political friendship and enmity, gender
and sexuality, sports and litigation, and economic and symbolic
exchange. The book aims to make a major contribution, theoretical
as well as empirical, towards understanding how the social order of
community life may be sustained and enhanced.
Lending and borrowing were commonplace in Athens during the fourth
century BC and could involve interest rates, security and banks,
but the part played by credit was very different from its familiar
role in capitalist society. Using a combination of sources, but
concentrating on the law-court speeches of the Attic orators, Dr
Millett shows that it is possible to see how lending and borrowing
were a way of ordering social relations between Athenian citizens.
Although debt could be disruptive, it had as its more positive side
the strengthening of ties between individuals. That was, in turn,
an aspect of the solidarity between citizens that was a part of the
Athenian democracy.
From Solon to Socrates is a magisterial narrative introduction
to what is generally regarded as the most important period of Greek
history. Stressing the unity of Greek history and the centrality of
Athens, Victor Ehrenberg covers a rich and diverse range of
political, economic, military and cultural issues in the Greek
world, from the early history of the Greeks, including early Sparta
and the wars with Persia, to the ascendancy of Athens and the
Peloponnesian War.
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Life! (Paperback)
Michael Paul Millette
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R401
Discovery Miles 4 010
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Oxford, the home of lost causes, the epitome of the world of
medieval and renaissance learning in Britain, has always fascinated
at a variety of levels: social, institutional, cultural. Its rival,
Cambridge, was long dominated by mathematics, while Oxford's
leading study was Classics. In this pioneering book, 16 leading
authorities explore a variety of aspects of Oxford Classics in the
last two hundred years: curriculum, teaching and learning,
scholarly style, publishing, gender and social exclusion and the
impact of German scholarship. Greats (Literae Humaniores) is the
most celebrated classical course in the world: here its early days
in the mid-19th century and its reform in the late 20th are
discussed, in the latter case by those intimately involved with the
reforms. An opening chapter sets the scene by comparing Oxford with
Cambridge Classics, and several old favourites are revisited,
including such familiar Oxford products as Liddell and Scott's
"Greek-English Lexicon", the "Oxford Classical Texts", and
Zimmern's "Greek Commonwealth". The book as a whole offers a
pioneering, wide-ranging survey of Classics in Oxford.
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