Performing Citizenship in Plato''s Laws

A study of the ethical underpinning of the rhetoric of citizenship in Plato's Laws and its implementation through ritualized forms of performance.

List of contents

Introduction; Preliminaries; Part I. Performing Ordinary Virtue in Plato's Utopias: Citizenship, Desire and Intention: 1. Citizenship in Callipolis; 2. Citizenship in Magnesia; Part II. Citizenship and Performance in the Laws: 3. Choral performances, persuasion and pleasure; 4. Patterns of chorality in Magnesia; 5. Comedy and comic discourse in Magnesia; 6. Epilogue: on law, agency and motivation.

About the author

Lucia Prauscello is University Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity Hall. She has published on Greek philology, literature and music. Her monograph Singing Alexandria: Music between Practice and Textual Transmission was published in 2006.

Summary

This book shows how Plato, in the Laws, theorizes citizenship as simultaneously a political, ethical, and aesthetic practice. Essential reading for all scholars interested in citizenship and the impact of rhetoric in shaping the forms and content of political discourse in societies.

Product details

• Authors: L. Prauscello, Lucia Prauscello, Lucia (University of Cambridge) Prauscello, Prauscello Lucia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2014
• EAN: 9781107072886
• ISBN: 978-1-107-07288-6
• No. of pages: 281
• Series: Cambridge Classical Studies; Cambridge Classical Studies
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; European History, Ancient Greece, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, social and political philosophy, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient History, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory