Language and history in ancient Greek culture /
Renowned scholar of Ancient Greek Martin Ostwald explains, for a modern audience, the terms by which the ancient Greeks saw and lived their lives--and influenced ours.
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Cover ; Contents ; Introduction; A Political Culture of the Polis; Chapter 1. Shares and Rights: "Citizenship" Greek Style and American Style; Chapter 2. Isokratia as a Political Concept; Chapter 3. Oligarchy and Oligarchs in Ancient Greece; Chapter 4. Stasis and Autonomia in Samos: A Comment on an Ideological Fallacy; Chapter 5. Peace and War in Plato and Aristotle; B Nomos in GreekHistory and Thought; Chapter 6. Pindar, Nomos, and Heracles (Pindar, frg. 169 [Snell3] and POxy. No. 2450, frg. 1); Chapter 7. Was There a Concept Agraphos Nomos in Classical Greece?
- Chapter 8. Nomos and Physis in Antiphon's C Constitutional and PoliticalInstitutions of Athens; Chapter 9. Athenian Democracy-Reality or Illusion? ; Chapter 10. Public Expense: Whose Obligation? Athens 600-454 b.c.e.; Chapter 11. Diodotus, Son of Eucrates; Chapter 12. Athens and Chalkis: A Study in Imperial Control; Chapter 13. The Areopagus in the Athenaion Politeia; Chapter 14. The Sophists and Athenian Politics; D Literature and History; Chapter 15. Herodotus and Athens; Chapter 16. Thucydides; Bibliography of Martin Ostwald; Index; Acknowledgments.
