La muse au long couteau : Critias, de la création littéraire au terrorisme d'Etat : actes du colloque international de Bordeaux, les 23 et 24 octobre 2009 / textes réunis et édités par Jean Yvonneau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Yvonneau, Jean, editor.

Series:

Scripta antiqua ; 107.

Scripta antiqua, 1298-1990 ; 107

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Critias, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 403 B.C.

Criticism and interpretation.

Politics and government.

Greece--Politics and government--To 146 B.C--Congresses.

Greece.

Critias, approximately 460 B.C.-approximately 403 B.C--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Critias.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

216 pages ; 24 cm.

Other Title:

Critias, de la création littéraire au terrorisme d'Etat : actes du colloque international de Bordeaux, les 23 et 24 octobre 2009

Place of Publication:

Bordeaux : Ausonius éditions, 2018.

Language Note:

Essays in French, one in English. Abstracts in French and English.

Summary:

"A man of nowhere, a man of everywhere: such is the odd status which tradition has bestowed upon Critias, a poet, philospher and politcal leader in Athens during the last somber years of the 5th century BC. A sworn enemy of democracy during the civil war of 404-403 BC, he was the uncle of Plato-who paid him a certain tribute-and was well-acquainted with Socrates and Alcibiades. Of his profuse, wide-ranging writings, there remains almost nothing. What has survived quite stubbornly, however, is his sinister reputation as a bloodthirsty tyrant, the fact notwithstanding that it relies on the sole, questionable testimony of Xenophon's Hellenica. The present volume, which is mainly the result of an interdisciplinary colloquium held in Bordeaux in 2009, combines philology, philosophy and history to better understand his (exceptionally) protean character."--Page 4 of cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9782356132024

2356132023

OCLC:

1032692110