The Hellenistic reception of classical Athenian democracy and political thought

The Hellenistic reception of classical Athenian democracy and political thought / edited by Mirko Canevaro.and Benjamin Gray.

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...

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Other Authors: Canevaro, Mirko (Editor), Gray, Benjamin D. (Benjamin David), 1983- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Democracy > Greece > History.
Hellenism.
HISTORY > Ancient > Greece.
Democracy
Hellenism
Politics and government
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Greece
Greece > Athens
History
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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