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Telling, turning moments in the classical political world / Jan H. Blits.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blits, Jan H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political culture--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Political culture.
- Political culture--Rome--History.
- Social change--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Social change.
- Social change--Rome--History.
- Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C.
- Greece.
- Rome--Politics and government.
- Rome.
- Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C--Historiography.
- Rome--Politics and government--Historiography.
- Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C--Sources.
- Rome--Politics and government--Sources.
- Genre:
- History.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 177 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Turning, Telling Moments in the Classical Political World examines developments in the classical political world which are both turning and telling moments. All the moments-from Theseus's founding of Athens to Augustus's establishment of the Principate-possess the double character of being turning points and revealing fundamental aspects of the ancient political world. By examining ancient histories as works of reflection rather than works of research, Blits reveals the way ancient historians understand_and intend us to understand_the ancient world.
- Contents:
- Athens and Rome : Plutarch's Theseus and Romulus
- Redeeming lost honor : Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece
- The end of the noble
- No middle way, no second way : Rome and the Caudine Forks
- The politics of authority and rhetoric in republican Rome
- Political murder in Rome
- Power without office, office without power : Augustus's Principate
- Afterword: Greece versus Rome
- Appendix: Greece and Rome timeline.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-31568-1
- 1-283-61423-5
- 0-7391-6451-1
- 9786613926685
- OCLC:
- 817814067
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