{"product_id":"language-and-history-in-ancient-greek-culture-hardback-9780812241495","title":"Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture (Hardback) 9780812241495","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eLanguage and History in Ancient Greek Culture\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMartin Ostwald (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812241495\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 24 July 2009\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpanning forty years, this collection of essays represents the work of a renowned teacher and scholar of the ancient Greek world. Martin Ostwald's contribution is both philological and historical: the thread that runs through all of the essays is his precise explanation, for a modern audience, of some crucial terms by which the ancient Greeks saw and lived their lives-and influenced ours. Chosen and sequenced by Ostwald, the essays demonstrate his methodology and elucidate essential aspects of ancient Greek society.\u003cbr\u003e The first section plumbs the social and political terms in which the Greeks understood their lives. It examines their notion of the relation of the citizen to his community; how they conceived different kinds of political structure; what role ideology played in public life; and how differently their most powerful thinkers viewed issues of war and peace. The second section is devoted to the problem, first articulated by the Greeks, of the extent to which human life is dominated by nature (physis) and human convention (nomos), a question that remains a central concern in modern societies, even if in different guises. The third section focuses on democracy in Athens. It confronts questions of the nature of democratic rule, of financing public enterprises, of the accountability of public officials, of the conflict raised by imperial control and democratic rule, of the coexistence of \"conservative\" and \"liberal\" trends in a democratic regime, and of the relation between rhetoric and power in a democracy. The final section is a sketch of the principles on which the two greatest Greek historians, Herodotus and Thucydides, constructed their outlooks on human affairs.\u003cbr\u003e Ultimately, the collection intends to make selected key concepts in ancient Greek social and political culture accessible to a lay audience. It also shows how the differences-rather than the similarities-between the ancient Greeks and us can contribute to a deeper understanding of our own time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e A. POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE POLIS\u003cbr\u003e 1. Shares and Rights: \"Citizenship\" Greek Style and American Style\u003cbr\u003e 2. \u003ci\u003eIsokratia\u003c\/i\u003e as a Political Concept\u003cbr\u003e 3. Oligarchy and Oligarchs in Ancient Greece\u003cbr\u003e 4. \u003ci\u003eStasis\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAutonomia\u003c\/i\u003e in Samos: A Comment on an Ideological Fallacy\u003cbr\u003e 5. Peace and War in Plato and Aristotle\u003cbr\u003e B. NOMOS IN GREEK HISTORY AND THOUGHT\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pindar, \u003ci\u003eNomos\u003c\/i\u003e, and Heracles (Pindar, frg. 169 [Snell3] and \u003ci\u003ePOxy\u003c\/i\u003e. No. 2450, frg. 1)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Was There a Concept \u003ci\u003eAgraphos Nomos\u003c\/i\u003e in Classical Greece?\u003cbr\u003e 8. \u003ci\u003eNomos\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePhysis\u003c\/i\u003e in Antiphon's \u003ci\u003ePeri Alethias\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e C. CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF ATHENS\u003cbr\u003e 9. Athenian Democracy-Reality or Illusion?\u003cbr\u003e 10. Public Expense: Whose Obligation? Athens 600-454 B.C.E.\u003cbr\u003e 11. Diodotus, Son of Eucrates\u003cbr\u003e 12. Athens and Chalkis: A Study in Imperial Control\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Areopagus in the \u003ci\u003eAthenaion Politeia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 14. The Sophists and Athenian Politics.\u003cbr\u003e D. LITERATURE AND HISTORY\u003cbr\u003e 15. Herodotus and Athens\u003cbr\u003e 16. Thucydides\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography of Martin Ostwald\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555710431512,"sku":"9780812241495","price":52.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/language-and-history-in-ancient-greek-culture-hardback-9780812241495","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}