Debating the Athenian cultural revolution : art, literature, philosophy, and politics, 430-380 BC / edited by Robin Osborne.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Osborne, Robin, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Athens (Greece)--Civilization.

Athens (Greece).

Physical Description:

xv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Whatever aspect of Athenian culture one examines, whether it be tragedy and comedy, philosophy, vase painting and sculpture, oratory and rhetoric, law and politics, or social and economic life, the picture looks very different after 400 BC from before 400 BC. Scholars who have previously addressed this question have concentrated on particular areas and come up with explanations, often connected with the psychological effect of the Peloponnesian War, which are very unconvincing as explanations for the whole range of change. This book attempts to look at a wide range of evidence for cultural change in Athens and to examine the ways in which the changes may have been co-ordinated. It is a complement to the examination of the rhetoric of revolution as applied to ancient Greece in Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2006).

Contents:

1 Tracing cultural revolution in classical Athens / Robin Osborne 1

2 The nature and implications of Athens' changed social structure and economy / Ben Akrigg 27

3 Why the Athenians began to curse / Esther Eidinow 44

4 A new political world / Claire Taylor 72

5 Cultural change, space, and the politics of commemoration in Athens / Julia L. Shear 91

6 The anatomy of metalepsis: visuality turns around on late fifth-century pots / Katharina Lorenz 116

7 Style and agency in an age of transition / Peter Schultz 144

8 The politics of precedence: first 'historians' on first 'thalassocrats' / Elizabeth Irwin 188

9 The form of Plato's Republic / Alex Long 224

10 Aristophanes' Assembly Women and Plato, Republic book 5 / Robert Tordoff 242

11 Greek tragedy 430-380 BC / Edith Hall 264

12 The sound of mousike: reflections on aural change in ancient Greece / Armand D'Angour 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-333) and index.

ISBN:

9780521879163

0521879167

OCLC:

154682293