Kosmos - Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens

Klappentext A collective volume on the concept of 'kosmos' - the human social order. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: defining a kosmos Paul Cartledge; 2. Interpersonal relations on Athenian pots: putting others in their place Robin Osborne; 3. Political friendship and the ideology of reciprocity Malcolm Schofield; 4. The politics of affection: emotional attachments in Athenian society Lin Foxhall; 5. Between koinon and idion: legal and social dimensions of religious associations in ancient Athens Ilias Arnaoutoglou; 6. Gymnasia and the democratic values of leisure Nick Fisher; 7. The seductions of the gaze: Socrates and his girlfriends Simon Goldhill; 8. The Athenian political perception of the idiotes Lene Rubinstein; 9a. Enmity in fourth-century Athens P. J. Rhodes; 9b. The rhetoric of enmity in the Attic orators S. C. Todd; 10. The well-ordered polis: topographies of civic space Sitta von Reden; 11. The threat from the Piraeus Jim Roy; 12. Encounters in the Agora Paul Millett.

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• Authors: Paul Cartledge, Paul (University of Cambridge) Millett Cartledge, Paul Millett Cartledge
• Assisted by: Paul Cartledge (Editor), Paul Millett (Editor), Sitta von Reden (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.08.2002
• EAN: 9780521525930
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52593-0
• No. of pages: 288
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories