Citizen and self in ancient Greece : individuals performing justice and the law / Vincent Farenga.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farenga, Vincent, 1947- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Justice--History--To 1500.

Justice.

Democracy--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.

Democracy.

Citizenship--Greece--Athens--History--To 1500.

Citizenship.

Justice, Administration of (Greek law).

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Law and literature.

Justice in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 592 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Citizen & Self in Ancient Greece

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This 2006 study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who performed 'scripts' of justice in early Iron Age, archaic and classical Greece. From the earlier periods, these include Homer's Achilles and Odysseus as heroic individuals who are also prototypical citizens, and Solon the lawgiver, writing the scripts of statute law and the jury trial. In democratic Athens, the focus turns to dialogues between a citizen's moral autonomy and political obligation in Aeschyleon tragedy, Pericles' citizenship paradigm, Antiphon's sophistic thought and forensic oratory, the political leadership of Alcibiades and Socrates' moral individualism.

Contents:

Introduction

Justice to the dead : prototypes of the citizen and self in early Greece

Performing justice in early Greece : dispute settlement in the Iliad

Self-transformation and the therapy of justice in the Odyssey

Performing the law : the lawgiver, statute law, and the jury trial

Citizenship by degrees : ephebes and demagogues in democratic Athens, 465

460

The naturalization of citizen and self in democratic Athens, 450

411

Democracy's narcissistic citizens: Alcibiades and Socrates

Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 549-575) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-16413-3

1-280-48004-1

0-511-22061-8

0-511-22110-X

0-511-21911-3

0-511-31694-1

0-511-49790-3

0-511-21979-2

OCLC:

171139257