Ideology of democratic Athens: institutions, orators and the mythical past /

Ideology of democratic Athens: institutions, orators and the mythical past /

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Author / Creator:	Barbato, Matteo, author.
Imprint:	Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 252 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	New approaches to Ancient Greek institutional history New approaches to Ancient Greek institutional history.
Subject:	Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500. Democracy -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500 -- Case studies. Oratory, Ancient. Rhetoric, Ancient. Democracy -- Greece. Rhetoric, Ancient. Oratory, Ancient. Democracy. Politics and government. Greece -- Politics and government. Greece -- Athens. Greece. History. Case studies.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13456999

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ISBN:	9781474484510 1474484514 9781474466448 1474466443 1474466427 9781474466424
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-239) and indexes.
Summary:	The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athens' internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
Other form:	Print version: 1474466427 9781474466424

Table of Contents:

1. Introduction
2. Myth and Athenian democracy
3. The discursive parameters of Athenian democratic institutions
4. Exclusiveness and eugeneia in the myth of autochthony
5. Between charis and philanthrōpia: the Heraclidae
6. Fading shades of hybris: the Attic Amazonomachy
7. Combining hybris and philanthrōpia: the myth of Adrastus
8. Conclusions.