Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece: Individuals Performing Justice and the Law (Hardback)
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Short Description for Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece This 2006 study looks to the ways the Greeks decided questions of justice.
Full description- Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Published: 30 June 2006
- Format: Hardback 602 pages
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- Categories: Literary Studies: Classical, Early & Medieval | Politics & Government | Political Structure & Processes | Ancient History: To C 500 CE | Classical History / Classical Civilisation
- ISBN 13: 9780521845595 ISBN 10: 0521845599
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Full description for Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece
This 2006 study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who performed 'scripts' of justice in early Iron Age, archaic and classical Greece. From the earlier periods, these include Homer's Achilles and Odysseus as heroic individuals who are also prototypical citizens, and Solon the lawgiver, writing the scripts of statute law and the jury trial. In democratic Athens, the focus turns to dialogues between a citizen's moral autonomy and political obligation in Aeschyleon tragedy, Pericles' citizenship paradigm, Antiphon's sophistic thought and forensic oratory, the political leadership of Alcibiades and Socrates' moral individualism.
