Download or read book Kinship in Thucydides written by Maria Fragoulaki and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores the relationship between Thucydides and ancient Greek historiography, sociology, and culture. Drawing on modern anthropological enquiries on kinship and the sociology of ethnicity and emotions, it argues that inter-communal kinship has a far more pervasive importance in Thucydides than has so far been acknowledged.
Download or read book Kinship in Thucydides written by Maria Fragoulaki and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinship in Thucydides written by M. Fragoulaki and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Apologies to Thucydides written by Marshall Sahlins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-12 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Download or read book Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History written by Darien Shanske and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-09 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in that it is a prose narrative, meant to be read rather than performed. It focuses on the unfolding of contemporary great power politics to the exclusion of almost all other elements of human life, including the divine. The power of Thucydides' text has never been attributed either to the charm of its language or to the entertainment value of its narrative, or to some personal attribute of the author. In this study, Darien Shanske analyzes the difficult language and structure of Thucydides' History and argues that the text has drawn in so many readers into its distinctive world view precisely because of its kinship to the contemporary language and structure of Classical Tragedy. This kinship is not merely a matter of shared vocabulary or even aesthetic sensibility. Rather, it is grounded in a shared philosophical position, in particular on the polemical metaphysics of Heraclitus.
Download or read book A Commentary on Thucydides Volume II Books IV V 24 written by Simon Hornblower and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This will be a 3 volume commentary on Thucydides. Appendices will appear in v.3 to be published some years hence.
Download or read book Thucydides Biographical sketch of Thucydides Arguments The Peloponnesian War Book I III written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kinship in Ancient Athens written by S. C. Humphreys and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-08 with total page 1504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of kinship is at the heart of understanding not only the structure and development of a society, but also the day-to-day interactions of its citizens. Kinship in Ancient Athens aims to illuminate both of these issues by providing a comprehensive account of the structures and perceptions of kinship in Athenian society, covering the archaic and classical periods from Drakon and Solon up to Menander. Drawing on decades of research into a wide range of epigraphic, literary, and archaeological sources, and on S. C. Humphreys' expertise in the intersections between ancient history and anthropology, it not only puts a wealth of data at readers' fingertips, but subjects it to rigorous analysis. By utilizing an anthropological approach to reconstruct patterns of behaviour it is able to offer us an ethnographic 'thick description' of ancient Athenians' interaction with their kin that offers insights into a range of social contexts, from family life, rituals, and economic interactions, to legal matters, politics, warfare, and more. The work is arranged into two volumes, both utilizing the same anthropological approach to ancient sources. Volume I explores interactions and conflicts shaped by legal and economic constraints (adoption, guardianship, marriage, inheritance, property), as well as more optional relationships in the field of ritual (naming, rites de passage, funerals and commemoration, dedications, cultic associations) and political relationships, both formal (Assembly, Council) and informal (hetaireiai). Among several important and novel topics discussed are the sociological analysis of names and nicknames, the features of kin structure that advantaged or disadvantaged women in legal disputes, and the economic relations of dependence and independence between fathers and sons. Volume II deals with corporate groups recruited by patrifiliation and explores the role of kinship in these subdivisions of the citizen body: tribes and trittyes (both pre-Kleisthenic and Kleisthenic), phratries, genê, and demes. The section on the demes stresses variety rather than common features, and provides comprehensive information on location and prosopography in a tribally organized catalogue.
Download or read book Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece written by Lee E. Patterson and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-12-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study enriches the dialogue on how societies often use myth to construct political, social, and cultural identity---hardly unique to the ancient Greeks, it is rather a human phenomenon for a culture to embrace an identity grounded in a putative ancestry that is expressed in the traditional stories of that culture. --Book Jacket.
Download or read book Thucydides Book IV written by Thucydides and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1919 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Thucydides is in the original Greek and contains an introduction, generous notes and a vocabulary section.
Download or read book Thucydides Book IV written by Thucydides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Thucydides is in the original Greek and contains an introduction, generous notes and a vocabulary section.
Download or read book Thucydides Arguments Peloponnesian War Book III cont d VI written by Thucydides and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity written by Ralph Rosen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-09-10 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. This book demonstrates from a wide range of perspectives how such behavior is anchored and promoted in classical antiquity by a varied and conceptually rich discourse of ‘valuing others’.
Download or read book Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity written by Gregory Crane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War is the earliest surviving realist text in the European tradition. As an account of the Peloponnesian War, it is famous both as an analysis of power politics and as a classic of political realism. From the opening speeches, Thucydides' Athenians emerge as a new and frightening source of power, motivated by self-interest and oblivious to the rules and shared values under which the Greeks had operated for centuries. Gregory Crane demonstrates how Thucydides' history brilliantly analyzes both the power and the dramatic weaknesses of realist thought. The tragedy of Thucydides' history emerges from the ultimate failure of the Athenian project. The new morality of the imperialists proved as conflicted as the old; history shows that their values were unstable and self-destructive. Thucydides' history ends with the recounting of an intellectual stalemate that, a century later, motivated Plato's greatest work. Thucydides and the Ancient Simplicity includes a thought-provoking discussion questioning currently held ideas of political realism and its limits. Crane's sophisticated claim for the continuing usefulness of the political examples of the classical past will appeal to anyone interested in the conflict between the exercise of political power and the preservation of human freedom and dignity.
Download or read book Thucydides and Sparta written by Jean Ducat and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides is widely seen as the most dispassionate and reliable contemporary source for the history of classical Sparta. But, compared with partisan authors such as Xenophon and Plutarch, his information on the subject is more scattered and implicit. Scholars in recent decades have made progress in teasing out the sense of Thucydides' often lapidary remarks on Sparta. This book takes the process further. Its eight new studies by international specialists aim to reveal coherent structures both in Thucydidean thought and in Spartan reality.This volume is the second of a series in which the Classical Press of Wales applies to Spartan history the approach it is already using for the history of Rome's revolutionary era: focusing in turn on each of the main sources on which historians depend, and analysing with a combination of historical and literary methods.
Download or read book The Blinded Eye written by Gregory Crane and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thucydides, the patron saint of Realpolitik, continues to be read in many fields outside of classics. Why did his History succeed in setting the pattern for future scholars where Hereodotus's earlier Histories failed? In this fascinating study of the construction of intellectual authority, Gregory Crane argues that Thucydides was successful for two reasons. First, he refined the language of administration: Who was in charge? How much money was spent? How many people were killed? Second, he drew upon the abstract philosophical rhetoric developing in the fifth century, one in which the state and the public, rather than the family and the individual, stand at the center of the world. Ironically, it was through deeply personal alliances that aristocratic Greeks had defined themselves and exerted power. Thucydides's discursive practice was therefore fundamentally incompatible with his ideological goals.
Download or read book Thucydides written by Thucydides and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 761 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Thucydides, a foundational text in the history of Western political thought, with extensive student reference material.
