Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Polis write by Mogens Herman Hansen. This book was released on 2006-10-05. Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An accessible introduction to the polis (plural: poleis), or ancient Greek city-state. Mogens Herman Hansen addresses such topics as the emergence of the polis, its size and population, and its political culture, ranging from famous poleis such as Athens and Sparta through more than 1,000 known examples.
Eros and Polis
Eros and Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Eros and Polis write by Paul W. Ludwig. This book was released on 2002-10-21. Eros and Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eros and Polis examines how and why Greek theorists treated political passions as erotic. Because of the tiny size of ancient Greek cities, contemporary theory and ideology could conceive of entire communities based on desire. A recurrent aspiration was to transform the polity into one great household that would bind the citizens together through ties of mutual affection. In this study, Paul Ludwig evaluates sexuality, love and civic friendship as sources of political attachment and as bonds of political association. Studying the ancient view of eros recovers a way of looking at political phenomena that provides a bridge, missing in modern thought, between the private and public spheres, between erotic love and civic commitment. Ludwig's study thus has important implications for the theoretical foundations of community.
The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis
The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis write by D. Brendan Nagle. This book was released on 2006-03-13. The Household as the Foundation of Aristotle's Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among ancient writers Aristotle offers the most profound analysis of the ancient Greek household and its relationship to the state. The household was not the family in the modern sense of the term, but a much more powerful entity with significant economic, political, social, and educational resources. The success of the polis in all its forms lay in the reliability of households to provide it with the kinds of citizens it needed to ensure its functioning. In turn, the state offered the members of its households a unique opportunity for humans to flourish. This 2006 book explains how Aristotle thought household and state interacted within the polis.
Cosmology and the Polis
Cosmology and the Polis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmology and the Polis write by Richard Seaford. This book was released on 2012-01-12. Cosmology and the Polis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.
Sailing from Polis to Empire
Sailing from Polis to Empire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sailing from Polis to Empire write by Emmanuel Nantet. This book was released on 2020. Sailing from Polis to Empire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "What can the architecture of ancient ships tell us about their capacity to carry cargo or to navigate certain trade routes? How do such insights inform our knowledge of the ancient economies that depended on maritime trade across the Mediterranean? These and similar questions lie behind Sailing from Polis to Empire, a fascinating insight into the practicalities of trading by boat in the ancient world. Allying modern scientific knowledge with Hellenistic sources, this interdisciplinary collection brings together experts in various fields of ship archaeology to shed new light on the role played by ships and sailing in the exchange networks of the Mediterranean. Covering all parts of the Eastern Mediterranean, these outstanding contributions delve into a broad array of data - literary, epigraphical, papyrological, iconographic and archaeological - to understand the trade routes that connected the economies of individual cities and kingdoms. Unique in its interdisciplinary approach and focus on the Hellenistic period, this collection digs into the questions that others don't think to ask, and comes up with (sometimes surprising) answers. It will be of value to researchers in the fields of naval architecture, Classical and Hellenistic history, social history and ancient geography, and to all those with an interest in the ancient world or the seafaring life."--Publisher's website.
