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Hellanikos, Thukydides and the era of Kimon
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ISBN: 8772887036 Year: 1997 Publisher: Aarhus : Aarhus universitetsforlag = Aarhus university press,


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Spoken like a woman : speech and gender in Athenian drama
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ISBN: 0691144419 1400832446 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,

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In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-length study of women's speech in classical drama, Laura McClure explores the discursive practices attributed to women of fifth-century b.c. Greece and to what extent these representations reflected a larger reality. Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues.From gossip to seductive persuasion, women's verbal strategies in the theater potentially subverted social and political hierarchy, McClure argues, whether the women characters were overtly or covertly duplicitous, in pursuit of adultery, or imitating male orators. Such characterization helped justify the regulation of women's speech in the democratic polis. The fact that women's verbal strategies were also used to portray male transvestites and manipulators, however, suggests that a greater threat of subversion lay among the spectators' own ranks, among men of uncertain birth and unscrupulous intent, such as demagogues skilled in the art of persuasion. Traditionally viewed as outsiders with ambiguous loyalties, deceitful and tireless in their pursuit of eros, women provided the dramatic poets with a vehicle for illustrating the dangerous consequences of political power placed in the wrong hands.


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Pericles of Athens
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ISBN: 069117833X 1400851173 Year: 2014 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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Pericles has the rare distinction of giving his name to an entire period of history, embodying what has often been taken as the golden age of the ancient Greek world. "Periclean" Athens witnessed tumultuous political and military events, and achievements of the highest order in philosophy, drama, poetry, oratory, and architecture. Pericles of Athens is the first book in decades to reassess the life and legacy of one of the greatest generals, orators, and statesmen of the classical world. In this compelling critical biography, Vincent Azoulay takes a fresh look at both the classical and modern reception of Pericles, recognizing his achievements as well as his failings. From Thucydides and Plutarch to Voltaire and Hegel, ancient and modern authors have questioned Pericles's relationship with democracy and Athenian society. This is the enigma that Azoulay investigates in this groundbreaking book. Pericles of Athens offers a balanced look at the complex life and afterlife of the legendary "first citizen of Athens."

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Statesmen --- Pericles, --- Athens (Greece) --- Politics and government. --- Aeginetans. --- Alcmaeonids. --- Ancients. --- Antisthenes. --- Aspasia. --- Athenian culture. --- Athenian economy. --- Athenian politics. --- Athenian society. --- Athens. --- Cimon. --- Delian League. --- Enlightenment. --- Ephialtes. --- Jean Bodin. --- Michel de Montaigne. --- Moderns. --- Parthenon. --- Peloponnesian War. --- Periclean myth. --- Pericles. --- Plato. --- Plutarch. --- Renaissance. --- The Peloponnesian War. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Thucydides. --- Xenophon. --- aristocracy. --- arts. --- authority. --- autochthony. --- biography. --- bourgeois. --- city gods. --- civic eroticism. --- civic pay. --- civic religion. --- comic poetry. --- connection. --- cruelty. --- death. --- deities. --- demagogues. --- democracy. --- disconnection. --- dēmos. --- economic prosperity. --- education. --- elite. --- empire. --- eros. --- family. --- friends. --- friendship. --- hospitality. --- imperialism. --- impiety. --- khorēgos. --- kinship. --- love. --- market economy. --- marketable agriculture. --- marriage. --- military command. --- military glory. --- military leader. --- military strategy. --- monarchy. --- monuments. --- oikonomia. --- oikos. --- oratory. --- pacific imperialism. --- pedagogy. --- persuasion. --- polis. --- political culture. --- political life. --- political power. --- political reforms. --- politics. --- popular culture. --- public speaking. --- redistribution. --- religious festivals. --- revenues. --- revolution. --- rhetoric. --- sexual love. --- sociability. --- stratēgos. --- tyrants. --- warfare.


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How to Think about War : An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy
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ISBN: 0691193843 Year: 2019 Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press,

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An accessible modern translation of essential speeches from Thucydides's History that takes readers to the heart of his profound insights on diplomacy, foreign policy, and warWhy do nations go to war? What are citizens willing to die for? What justifies foreign invasion? And does might always make right? For nearly 2,500 years, students, politicians, political thinkers, and military leaders have read the eloquent and shrewd speeches in Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War for profound insights into military conflict, diplomacy, and the behavior of people and countries in times of crisis. How to Think about War presents the most influential and compelling of these speeches in an elegant new translation by classicist Johanna Hanink, accompanied by an enlightening introduction, informative headnotes, and the original Greek on facing pages. The result is an ideally accessible introduction to Thucydides's long and challenging History.Thucydides intended his account of the clash between classical Greece's mightiest powers-Athens and Sparta-to be a "possession for all time." Today, it remains a foundational work for the study not only of ancient history but also contemporary politics and international relations. How to Think about War features speeches that have earned the History its celebrated status-all of those delivered before the Athenian Assembly, as well as Pericles's funeral oration and the notoriously ruthless "Melian Dialogue." Organized by key debates, these complex speeches reveal the recklessness, cruelty, and realpolitik of Athenian warfighting and imperialism.The first English-language collection of speeches from Thucydides in nearly half a century, How to Think about War takes readers straight to the heart of this timeless thinker.

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Greece --- History --- 5th century BC. --- Aegean Sea. --- Aegina. --- Aegospotami. --- Aftermath of World War II. --- Amphipolis. --- Ancient Greece. --- Ancient Greek. --- Ancient history. --- Anecdote. --- Archidamus II. --- Athenian Democracy. --- Battle of Aegospotami. --- Battle of Plataea. --- Boeotia. --- Brasidas. --- Byzantium. --- Cambridge University Press. --- Chalkidiki. --- Chios. --- Cimon. --- Classical Athens. --- Classical Greece. --- Classical antiquity. --- Classical realism (international relations). --- Classics. --- Cold War. --- Containment. --- Corfu. --- Decelea. --- Delian League. --- Delos. --- Diodorus Siculus. --- Dionysius of Halicarnassus. --- Donald Kagan. --- Epigraphy. --- Euboea. --- Eupolis. --- Expansionism. --- First Peloponnesian War. --- Foreign policy. --- Greco-Persian Wars. --- Hegemony. --- Hellenica. --- Helots. --- I.B. Tauris. --- Imperialism. --- International relations. --- Ionians. --- Irving Kristol. --- Lecture. --- Leo Strauss. --- Lesbos. --- Loeb Classical Library. --- Loeb. --- Louisiana State University Press. --- Megara. --- National interest. --- Naxos. --- Olorus. --- On War. --- Oxford University Press. --- Parthenon. --- Peace of Nicias. --- Peloponnese. --- Peloponnesian League. --- Peloponnesian War. --- Pericles' Funeral Oration. --- Pericles. --- Political philosophy. --- Political science. --- Politician. --- Port of Piraeus. --- Potidaea. --- Primary source. --- Princeton University Press. --- Realpolitik. --- Rhetoric. --- Richard Crawley. --- Robert Kagan. --- Second Continental Congress. --- Second Persian invasion of Greece. --- Sicilian Expedition. --- Soft power. --- Ten Years' War. --- Tetradrachm. --- Thasos. --- The First Man. --- The Modern World (novel). --- The Other Hand. --- The Persians. --- Themistocles. --- Thirty Years' Peace. --- Thomas Hobbes. --- Thucydides. --- Translations. --- University of California Press. --- University of North Carolina Press. --- William Kristol. --- Xenophon. --- .


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Sophocles : a study of his theater in its political and social context
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ISBN: 069124040X Year: 2018 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,

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Here, for the first time in English, is celebrated French classicist Jacques Jouanna's magisterial account of the life and work of Sophocles. Exhaustive and authoritative, this acclaimed book combines biography and detailed studies of Sophocles' plays, all set in the rich context of classical Greek tragedy and the political, social, religious, and cultural world of Athens's greatest age, the fifth century.Sophocles was the commanding figure of his day. The author of Oedipus Rex and Antigone, he was not only the leading dramatist but also a distinguished politician, military commander, and religious figure. And yet the evidence about his life has, until now, been fragmentary.Reconstructing a lost literary world, Jouanna has finally assembled all the available information, culled from inscriptions, archaeological evidence, and later sources. He also offers a huge range of new interpretations, from his emphasis on the significance of Sophocles' political and military offices (previously often seen as honorary) to his analysis of Sophocles' plays in the mythic and literary context of fifth-century drama.Written for scholars, students, and general readers, this book will interest anyone who wants to know more about Greek drama in general and Sophocles in particular. With an extensive bibliography and useful summaries not only of Sophocles' extant plays but also, uniquely, of the fragments of plays that have been partially lost, it will be a standard reference in classical studies for years to come.

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Greek drama --- History and criticism. --- Sophocles --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Achaean Leaders. --- Aeschylus. --- Against Timarchus. --- Agathon. --- Alcibiades. --- Ancient Rome. --- Apollo. --- Apollonius of Rhodes. --- Ariadne. --- Aristeia. --- Arrival and Departure. --- Artaphernes (son of Artaphernes). --- Assemblywomen. --- Capture of Oechalia. --- Castor and Pollux. --- Celeus. --- Cimon. --- Clytemnestra. --- Critias. --- Cypria. --- Deianira. --- Demodice. --- Dirce. --- Dithyramb. --- Epic Cycle. --- Epigoni. --- Epigram. --- Eriphyle. --- Euphorion (playwright). --- Euripides. --- Eurystheus. --- Fasti. --- Greek mythology. --- Gylippus. --- Harmodius and Aristogeiton. --- Hippolytus (play). --- How It Happened. --- Ichneutae. --- Iophon. --- Iphigenia in Aulis. --- Iphigenia in Tauris. --- Iphigenia. --- Jocasta complex. --- Juvenal. --- Laertes. --- Laius. --- Laocoön. --- Laodocus. --- Laomedon. --- Lichas. --- Melanthius (Odyssey). --- Menelaus. --- Menestheus. --- Miasma (Greek mythology). --- Momus. --- Neoptolemus. --- Nicias. --- Odysseus. --- Oecles. --- Oedipus at Colonus. --- Oedipus the King. --- Oeneus. --- Oreste. --- Ostracism. --- Palamedes (Arthurian legend). --- Pandarus. --- Peace of Nicias. --- Peleus. --- Pelias. --- Philoctetes. --- Phineus (son of Belus). --- Polyxena. --- Pylades. --- Ridicule. --- Sarpedon. --- Satyr play. --- Semele. --- Seven Against Thebes. --- Sicilian Expedition. --- Sisyphus. --- Sophocles. --- Superiority (short story). --- Supplication. --- Tecmessa. --- Teucer. --- The Persians. --- The Phoenician Women. --- The Trojan Women. --- Thersander. --- Threnody. --- Thucydides. --- Tiresias. --- Tlepolemus. --- Tragedy. --- Tragic hero. --- Tragicomedy. --- Trojan War. --- V. --- Weighing of souls. --- Women of Trachis.

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