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1 online resource |
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Introduction / Mirko Canevaro and Benjamin Gray -- Part I. Early Hellenistic responses to classical Athenian democracy and political thought. 2. Stairway to heaven: the politics of memory in early Hellenistic Athens / Nino Luraghi -- 3. Alexander the Great and democracy in the Hellenistic world / Shane Wallance -- 4. Demosthenic influences in early rhetorical education: Hellenistic rhetores and Athenian imagination / Mirko Canevaro -- 5. Sophists, epicureans, ans stoics / A.G. Long -- 6. Comedy and the Athenian ideal / David Konstan -- Part II. Later Hellenistic and early imperial developments in the reception of classical Athenian politics. 7. Polybius on 'classical Athenian imperial democracy' / Craige B. Champion -- 8. A later Hellenistic debate about the value of classical Athenian civic ideals? the evidence of epigraphy, historiography, and philosophy / Benjamin Gray -- 9. Philanthropia, Athens, and democracy in Diodorus Siculus: the Athenian debate / John Holton -- 10. Getting over Athens: re-writing Hellenicity in the Early Roman History of Dionysius of halicarnassus / Nicolas Wiater -- 11. Standing up to the demos: Plutarch, Phocion, and the democratic life / Andrew Erskine -- 12. The orator in the theatre: the end of Athenian democracy in Plutarch's Phocion / Raphaëla Dubreuil -- 13. Whatever happened to Athens? thoughts on the great convergence and beyond / John Ma |
| Summary |
In the Hellenistic period (c.323-31 BCE), Greek teachers, philosophers, historians, orators, and politicians found an essential point of reference in the democracy of Classical Athens and the political thought which it produced. However, while Athenian civic life and thought in the Classical period have been intensively studied, these aspects of the Hellenistic period have so far received much less attention. This volume seeks to bring together the two areas of research, shedding new light on these complementary parts of the history of the ancient Greek polis |
| Notes |
"The volume originated in a conference on this theme, held at the School of History, Classics, and Archaeology of the University of Edinburgh, which was the Classical Association of Scotland Conference for 2013"--Page v |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Democracy -- Greece -- History
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Hellenism.
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Hellenism.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- Greece.
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Democracy
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Hellenism
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Politics and government
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government
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Greece
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Greece -- Athens
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Canevaro, Mirko, editor.
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Gray, Benjamin D. (Benjamin David), 1983- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191065354 |
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0191065358 |
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9780191811098 |
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0191811092 |
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