Description
Book SynopsisRenowned scholar of Ancient Greek Martin Ostwald explains, for a modern audience, the terms by which the ancient Greeks saw and lived their lives-and influenced ours.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
A. POLITICAL CULTURE OF THE POLIS
1. Shares and Rights: "Citizenship" Greek Style and American Style
2. Isokratia as a Political Concept
3. Oligarchy and Oligarchs in Ancient Greece
4. Stasis and Autonomia in Samos: A Comment on an Ideological Fallacy
5. Peace and War in Plato and Aristotle
B. NOMOS IN GREEK HISTORY AND THOUGHT
6. Pindar, Nomos, and Heracles (Pindar, frg. 169 [Snell3] and POxy. No. 2450, frg. 1)
7. Was There a Concept Agraphos Nomos in Classical Greece?
8. Nomos and Physis in Antiphon's Peri Alethias
C. CONSTITUTIONAL AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF ATHENS
9. Athenian Democracy—Reality or Illusion?
10. Public Expense: Whose Obligation? Athens 600-454 B.C.E.
11. Diodotus, Son of Eucrates
12. Athens and Chalkis: A Study in Imperial Control
13. The Areopagus in the Athenaion Politeia
14. The Sophists and Athenian Politics.
D. LITERATURE AND HISTORY
15. Herodotus and Athens
16. Thucydides
Bibliography of Martin Ostwald
Index
Acknowledgments
