Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolutio

Informationen zum Autor Robin Osborne is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Cambridge. Klappentext This volume examines the changes in Athenian culture at the end of the fifth century BC. Zusammenfassung The end of the fifth century BC saw a series of profound changes in the culture of Athens! embracing art! literature! philosophy and politics. This volume analyses these changes and looks at how and why they came about and to what extent they were linked. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Tracing cultural revolution in classical Athens Robin Osborne; 2. The nature and implications of Athens' changed social structure and economy Ben Akrigg; 3. Why the Athenians began to curse Esther Eidinow; 4. A new political world Claire Taylor; 5. Cultural change, space, and the politics of commemoration in Athens Julia Shear; 6. The anatomy of metalepsis: visuality turns around on late fifth-century pots Katharina Lorenz; 7. Constructing the late classical sculptor: style and agency in an age of transition Peter Schultz; 8. The politics of precedence: first 'historians' on first 'thalassocrats' Elizabeth Irwin; 9. The form of Plato's Republic Alex Long; 10. Aristophanes' Ecclesiazusae and Plato's Republic Robert Tordoff; 11. Greek tragedy 430-380 BCE Edith Hall; 12. The sound of music: modulations and innovations in drama and dithyramb Amand D'Angour.

Product details

• Authors: Robin Osborne
• Assisted by: Robin Osborne (Editor), Osborne Robin (Editor), Osborne Robin (Editor)
• Publisher: External catalogues UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.03.2010
• EAN: 9780521130585
• ISBN: 978-0-521-13058-5
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Ancient World, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, Archaeology by period / region, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology