Ideology of democratic Athens: institutions, orators and the mythical past /

The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the membe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Barbato, Matteo (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020]
Colección:New approaches to Ancient Greek institutional history.
Temas:
To 1500
Democracy > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Democracy > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500 > Case studies.
Oratory, Ancient.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
Democracy > Greece.
Éloquence antique.
Rhétorique ancienne.
HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
Rhetoric, Ancient
Oratory, Ancient
Democracy
Politics and government
Greece > Politics and government.
Grèce > Politique et gouvernement.
Greece > Athens
Greece
History
Case studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Myth and Athenian democracy
  • 3. The discursive parameters of Athenian democratic institutions
  • 4. Exclusiveness and eugeneia in the myth of autochthony
  • 5. Between charis and philanthrōpia: the Heraclidae
  • 6. Fading shades of hybris: the Attic Amazonomachy
  • 7. Combining hybris and philanthrōpia: the myth of Adrastus
  • 8. Conclusions.

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