Class in Archaic Greece

An eclectic Marxist approach reveals the centrality of conflict and ideological struggle in the socio-political and cultural changes in Archaic Greece.

List of contents

Introduction: theoretical considerations; 1. Class in the Dark Age and the rise of the polis; 2. Homer's Iliad: alienation from a changing world; 3. Trade, colonization, and the Odyssey; 4. Hesiod: Cosmogony, Basileis, farmers, and justice; 5. Tyranny and the Solonian crisis; 6. Sparta and the consolidation of the oligarchic ideal; 7. Athens and the emergence of democracy.

About the author

Peter W. Rose is a Professor of Classics at Miami University, Ohio. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, Massachusetts and taught at Yale University, Connecticut for eight years. His publications include Sons of the Gods, Children of Earth: Ideology and Literary Form in Ancient Greece (1992) and articles on Pindar, Sophocles, Homer, Marx and the Study Women in Antiquity, Thucydides, Cicero, film and pedagogy, Marxism and ideology.

Summary

Provides a fresh and unapologetically Marxist approach to the history of one of the formative periods of Western civilization, which saw the invention of politics, the spread of Greek culture over most of the Mediterranean, the invention of literacy, epic, lyric, highly influential architecture, sculpture and painting.

Product details

• Authors: Peter W. Rose, Peter W. (Miami University) Rose, Rose Peter W.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781108459266
• ISBN: 978-1-108-45926-6
• No. of pages: 453
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Ancient Greece, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Classical Greek & Roman archaeology