Athens: The City as University; Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies; Title; Copyright; Contents; About this Book; Acknowledgements; 1 Setting the Stage for Citizens; Introduction: Democratic Knowledge; Citizens Modern and Ancient; Democracies; Intellectual Attainment and Democratic Ideals; Myth and Mousikē; Heroic Politics; Hesiod's Poetics of Struggle; Solon: Accommodating Athens to the Muse; Notes; 2 Citizen Spaces; Knowing Where it Happens; Democratic Citizenship: Staging and Rehearsal; What did Citizens Learn?; Learning at Home; Places of Learning; The Agora
The View Beyond the CityIn and Out of the Barber's Shop; Notes; 3 The Citizen Performer; Writing the City; Suspicion of Writing in Athens; On Writers; The Argument of On Writers; A Misdirected Attack on Writing?; The Two Faces of the Writer; Stylish Spontaneity; Notes; Conclusion: The City as University; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Passages; Index
