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Solon the Thinker : Political Thought in Archaic Athens.
In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellect...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Author's Note; Abbreviations; Introduction: Approaching Solon's fragments; 1. 'I brought the people together': Solon's polis as kosmos; 2. 'To know all things': psychic qualities and the polis; 3. 'In time, retribution surely comes': necessity, dikê and the good order of the polis; 4. 'A kosmos of words': archaic logic and the organization of poem 4; 5. 'Moira brings good and evil': bios and the failure of Dikê; 6. 'We will not exchange our excellence': Moira and wealth.
- 7. 'I set them free': tyranny, slavery and freedomAppendix: glossary of terms used by Solon; Notes; Solon's fragments, translated by John Lewis; Bibliography; Index.