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1 online resource (426 pages) |
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Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Author's Note; Abbreviations; Introduction: Approaching Solon's fragments; 1. 'I brought the people together': Solon's polis as kosmos; 2. 'To know all things': psychic qualities and the polis; 3. 'In time, retribution surely comes': necessity, dikê and the good order of the polis; 4. 'A kosmos of words': archaic logic and the organization of poem 4; 5. 'Moira brings good and evil': bios and the failure of Dikê; 6. 'We will not exchange our excellence': Moira and wealth |
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7. 'I set them free': tyranny, slavery and freedomAppendix: glossary of terms used by Solon; Notes; Solon's fragments, translated by John Lewis; Bibliography; Index |
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In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its people, depends upon their acceptance of justice and moderation as orderly norms of life, and leads to the rejection of tyranny and slavery in favour of freedom. But Solon's naturalistic views are limited; in his own life each person is subject to the arbitrary foibles of moira, the in |
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Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL |
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Solon, approximately 630 B.C.-approximately 560 B.C.
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Solon, approximately 630 B.C.-approximately 560 B.C. |
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State, The.
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Democracy.
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Social & political philosophy.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Democracy
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Politics and government
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State, The
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government
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Greece -- Athens
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Electronic book
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9781472521149 |
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1472521145 |
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