Debating the Athenian Cultural Revolution: Art, Literature, Philosophy, and Politics 430-380 BCRobin Osborne Cambridge University Press, 2007 M11 29 - 341 pages Whatever aspect of Athenian culture one examines, whether it be tragedy and comedy, philosophy, vase painting and sculpture, oratory and rhetoric, law and politics, or social and economic life, the picture looks very different after 400 BC from before 400 BC. Scholars who have previously addressed this question have concentrated on particular areas and come up with explanations, often connected with the psychological effect of the Peloponnesian War, which are very unconvincing as explanations for the whole range of change. This book attempts to look at a wide range of evidence for cultural change at Athens and to examine the ways in which the changes may have been coordinated. It is a complement to the examination of the rhetoric of revolution as applied to ancient Greece in Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece (Cambridge, 2006). |
Contents
Section 1 | 27 |
Section 2 | 44 |
Section 3 | 72 |
Section 4 | 93 |
Section 5 | 102 |
Section 6 | 116 |
Section 7 | 119 |
Section 8 | 131 |
Section 15 | 157 |
Section 16 | 158 |
Section 17 | 159 |
Section 18 | 160 |
Section 19 | 162 |
Section 20 | 168 |
Section 21 | 169 |
Section 22 | 170 |
Section 9 | 135 |
Section 10 | 144 |
Section 11 | 148 |
Section 12 | 149 |
Section 13 | 152 |
Section 14 | 156 |
Section 23 | 171 |
Section 24 | 188 |
Section 25 | 224 |
Section 26 | 242 |
Section 27 | 264 |
Section 28 | 288 |
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