Valuing others in classical antiquity / edited by Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rosen, Ralph Mark.

Sluiter, I. (Ineke)

Series:

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Monographs on Greek and Roman language and literature

Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social values--Greece.

Social values.

Social values--Rome.

Difference (Philosophy).

Group identity--Greece--History.

Group identity.

Group identity--Rome--History.

History.

Greece--Civilization--To 146 B.C.

Greece.

Civilization.

Rome--Civilization.

Rome.

Rome (Empire).

Physical Description:

xii, 476 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Summary:

Summary: How does a discourse of 'valuing others' help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring 'ancient values', this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people 'belong together', as a family, a group, a polis, a community, or just as fellow human beings. Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. In eighteen chapters, ranging from Greek tragedy to the Roman gladiators, and from house architecture to the concept of friendship, this book demonstrates how such behavior is anchored and promoted by culturally specific expressions of evaluative discourse. Valuing others in classical antiquity should be of interest to linguists, literary scholars, historians, and philosophers alike.

Contents:

General introduction / Ineke Sluiter and Ralph M. Rosen

Classical Greek urbanism : a social Darwinian view / John Bintliff

Shared sanctuaries and the gods of others : on the meaning of 'common' in Herodotus 8.144 / Irene Polinskaya

Kharis, Kharites, festivals, and social peace in the classical Greek city / Nick Fisher

Communal values in ancient diplomacy / Sarah Bolmarcich

Tecmessa's legacy : valuing outsiders in Athens' democracy / Robert W. Wallace

The instrumental value of others and institutional change : an Athenian case study / Josiah Ober

Visibility and social evaluation in Athenian litigation / Eveline van't Wout

Helping and community in the Athenian law courts / Matthew R. Christ

Are fellow citizens friends? : Aristotle versus Cicero on philia, amicitia, and social solidarity / David Konstan

Pricing the invaluable : Socrates and the value of friendship / Tazuko van Berkel

On belonging in Plato's Lysis / Albert Joosse

Not valuing others : reflections of social cohesion in the Characters of Theophrastus / Ivo Volt

Evaluating others and evaluating oneself in Epictetus' Discourses / Gerard J. Boter

Human connections and paternal evocations : two elite Roman women writers and the valuing of others / Judith P. Hallett

Quid tibi ego videor in epistulis? : Cicero's Verecundia / Cynthia Damon

Citizen as enemy in Sallust's Bellum catilinae / Aislinn Melchior

Valuing others in the gladiatorial barracks / Kathleen M. Coleman.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9789004189218

9004189211

OCLC:

647901923