Author: Shulamit AlmogPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110766175
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Now in Paperback
The Origins of the Law in Homer
Author: Shulamit AlmogPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110766175
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Now in Paperback
Early Greek Law
Author: Michael GagarinPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052090916X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Drawing on the evidence of anthropology as well as ancient literature and inscriptions, Gagarin examines the emergence of law in Greece from the 8th through the 6th centuries B.C., that is, from the oral culture of Homer and Hesiod to the written enactment of codes of law in most major cities.
Who Killed Homer?
Author: Victor Davis HansonPublisher: Encounter Books
ISBN: 1893554260
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
With advice and informative readings of the great Greek texts, this title shows how we might save classics and the Greeks. It is suitable for those who agree that knowledge of classics acquaints us with the beauty and perils of our own culture.
Homer
Author: James I. PorterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675904
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The story of our ongoing fascination with Homer, the man and the myth. Homer, the great poet of the Iliad and the Odyssey, is revered as a cultural icon of antiquity and a figure of lasting influence. But his identity is shrouded in questions about who he was, when he lived, and whether he was an actual person, a myth, or merely a shared idea. Rather than attempting to solve the mystery of this character, James I. Porter explores the sources of Homer’s mystique and their impact since the first recorded mentions of Homer in ancient Greece. Homer: The Very Idea considers Homer not as a man, but as a cultural invention nearly as distinctive and important as the poems attributed to him, following the cultural history of an idea and of the obsession that is reborn every time Homer is imagined. Offering novel readings of texts and objects, the book follows the very idea of Homer from his earliest mentions to his most recent imaginings in literature, criticism, philosophy, visual art, and classical archaeology.
The Origin of Laws, Arts, and Sciences
Author: Antoine-Yves GoguetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Greek Concept of Justice
Author: Eric Alfred HavelockPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
In this book, Eric Havelock presents a challenging account of the development of the idea of justice in early Greece, and particularly of the way justice changed as Greek oral tradition gradually gave way to the written word in a literate society. He begins by examining the educational functions of poets in preliterate Greece, showing how they conserved and transmitted the traditions of society, a thesis adumbrated in his earlier book Preface to Plato. Homer, he demonstrates, has much to say about justice, but since that idea is nowhere in the epics directly stated or expressed, it must be deduced from the speech and actions of the characters. Havelock's careful reading of the Iliad and the Odyssey is original and revealing; it sheds light both on Homeric notions of justice and on the Archaic Greek society depicted in the poems. As Havelock continues his inquiry from Hesiod to Aeschylus, his findings become more complex. The oral Greek world shades into a literate one. Words lose some kinds of meanings, gain others, and steadily become more suitedto the conceptualization that Plato strove for and achieved. This evolution of language itself, Havelock shows, was one of the principal accomplishments of the Greek world. Lucidly written and forcefully argued, this book is a major contribution to our knowledge of ancient Greece--its politics, philosophy, and literature, from Homer to Plato.
The Origin of Laws, Arts, and Sciences, and Their Progress Among the Most Ancient Nations ... Adorned with Cuts
Author: Antoine Yves GOGUETLaw, Its Origin, Growth, and Function
Author: James Coolidge CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jurisprudence
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Early Greek Political Thought from Homer to the Sophists
Author: Michael GagarinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521437684
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Including the works of more than thirty authors, this edition of early Greek writings on social and political issues includes the origin of human society and law; the nature of justice and good government; the distribution of power among genders and social classes.
Money and the Early Greek Mind
Author: Richard SeafordPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521539920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
How were the Greeks of the sixth century BC able to invent philosophy and tragedy? In this book Richard Seaford argues that a large part of the answer can be found in another momentous development, the invention and rapid spread of coinage, which produced the first ever thoroughly monetised society. By transforming social relations monetisation contributed to the ideas of the universe as an impersonal system, fundamental to Presocratic philosophy, and of the individual alienated from his own kin and from the gods, as found in tragedy.