TY - BOOK ID - 16848161 TI - Justice as an aspect of the polis idea in Solon's political poems : a reading of the fragments in light of the researches of new classical archaeology PY - 2003 VL - 243 SN - 9004130020 9786610467396 1417545496 1280467398 9047402138 9781417545490 9789004130029 9789047402138 PB - Leiden Brill DB - UniCat KW - Political poetry, Greek KW - Excavations (Archaeology) KW - Politics and literature KW - Justice in literature. KW - History and criticism. KW - -Justice in literature KW - -Politics and literature KW - -Literature KW - Literature and politics KW - Literature KW - Greek political poetry KW - Greek poetry KW - Archaeological digs KW - Archaeological excavations KW - Digs (Archaeology) KW - Excavation sites (Archaeology) KW - Ruins KW - Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) KW - Archaeology KW - History and criticism KW - Political aspects KW - Solon KW - -Poetic works KW - Athens (Greece) KW - -Politics and government KW - Justice in literature KW - Poésie politique grecque KW - Fouilles (Archéologie) KW - Politique et littérature KW - Justice dans la littérature KW - Histoire et critique KW - Solon, KW - Poetic works KW - Athènes (Grèce) KW - Politics and government KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - Solone, KW - Poetic works. KW - Politics and government. KW - Solon Atheniensis KW - Solon van Athene KW - Soloon KW - Soloon van Athene KW - Political poetry, Greek - History and criticism. KW - Excavations (Archaeology) - Greece - Athens. KW - Politics and literature - Greece - Athens. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:16848161 AB - This book examines the meaning of justice or dike in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The first two chapters argue that neither standard historical nor literary treatments have provided an adequate foundation for understanding Solon’s dike . The main defect lies in an inability to connect Solon’s concrete political work with his poetic perceptions. The book’s central proposal is that the polis idea, from new classical archaeology, provides an objective standard for an interpretation of Solon’s dike , which remedies this defect. The third chapter sets forth the polis idea, which becomes the measure for an examination, in the final two chapters, of Solon’s view of dike . The book thus exhibits an interdisciplinary approach to Archaic poetry. ER -