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La mort d'Antigone : la tragédie de Créon
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ISBN: 9782130499503 2130499503 Year: 1999 Publisher: Paris : PUF,

Der deutsche Aristophanes : die Rezeption eines politischen Dichters im 19. Jahrhundert
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ISBN: 3525252544 9783525252543 Year: 2004 Volume: 155 Publisher: Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht,

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
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ISBN: 9004130020 9786610467396 1417545496 1280467398 9047402138 9781417545490 9789004130029 9789047402138 Year: 2003 Volume: 243 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill,

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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.

Free speech in classical antiquity
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ISBN: 9004139257 9786610915354 9047405684 1280915358 1429408413 9789004139251 9781429408417 9781280915352 6610915350 9789047405689 Year: 2004 Volume: 254 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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This book contains a collection of essays on the notion of “Free Speech” in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as “freedom of speech,” “self-expression,” and “censorship,” in ancient Greek and Roman culture from historical, philosophical, and literary perspectives. Among the many questions addressed are: what was the precise lexicographical valence of the ancient terms we routinely translate as 'Freedom of Speech,' e.g., Parrhesia in Greece, Licentia in Rome? What relationship do such terms have with concepts such as isêgoria , dêmokratia and eleutheria ; or libertas , res publica and imperium ? What does ancient theorizing about free speech tell us about contemporary relationships between power and speech? What are the philosophical foundations and ideological underpinnings of free speech in specific historical contexts?

Homer's people : epic poetry and social formation
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ISBN: 0511407610 1107297974 0511408382 0511409192 0511409710 0511410255 9780511410253 9781107297975 9780521770095 0521770092 9780521066419 0521066417 0511406495 Year: 2000 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book examines the role and character of Homer's people, laoi, in Homeric story-telling, arguing that Homeric poetry is crucially concerned with the people as a basis for communal life. Both The Iliad and The Odyssey are read as sustained meditations on the processes involved in protecting and destroying the people. The investigation draws on a wide range of approaches from formulaic analysis to the study of early performance contexts. From a close reading of the Homeric epics, Homer's people emerge as a community without effective social structures. When this is viewed from the perspective of Homeric performances in the polis, a contrast between Homer's laoi and the founding people of ritual emerges. While the former typically perish, the survival of the latter is secured by the establishment of successful institutions.

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