Vincent Farenga

Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece

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Produktbeschreibung

How can the ancient Greeks help us define ourselves as both citizens and individual selves? This study looks to the ways the Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding how our moral and political lives can be intertwined. Using Greek epic, law, drama, philosophy and forensic rhetoric over nearly six hundred years, it identifies the various scripts of citizen life that inspired different philosophies of moral individualism and political obligation in remarkable individuals from Achilles and Odysseus to Pericles, Alcibiades and Socrates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1122g
• ISBN-13: 9780521845595
• ISBN-10: 0521845599
• Artikelnr.: 22394787

Autorenporträt

Vincent Farenga is associate professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. He has contributed to Arethusa, Helios, and Modern Language Notes.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Justice to the dead: prototypes of the citizen and self in early Greece
2. Performing justice in early Greece: dispute settlement in the Iliad
3. Self-transformation and the therapy of justice in the Odyssey
4. Performing the law: the lawgiver, statute law and the jury trial
5. Citizenship by degrees: Ephebes and demagogues in democratic Athens, 465-460
6. The naturalization of citizen and self in democratic Athens, c.450-411
7. Democracy's narcissistic citizens: Alcibiades and Socrates
Conclusion
Reference list.