Demosia Grammata
Author | : James P. Sickinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1992 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105121780683 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
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Author | : James P. Sickinger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1992 |
ISBN-10 | : STANFORD:36105121780683 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Author | : Chester G. Starr |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1986-02-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780195364989 |
ISBN-13 | : 0195364988 |
Rating | : 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
During the three centuries from 800 to 500 B.C., the Greek world evolved from a primitive society--both culturally and economically--to one whose artistic products dominated all Mediterranean markets, supported by a wide overseas trade. In the following two centuries came the literary, philosophical, and artistic masterpieces of the classic area. Vital to this advance was the development of the polis, a collective institution in which citizens had rights as well as duties under the rule of law, a system hitherto unknown in human history. In this study, the first systematic exploration of the forces that created the political framework of Greek civilization, Chester Starr shows how the Greeks emerged form a Homeric world of individuals to the polis of 500 B.C. The age-old conflict between the self-serving demands of human beings and the less vocally-expressed needs of the community serves as the backbone of Starr's interdisciplinary analysis of the rise of the polis.
Author | : James P. Sickinger |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2018-02-01 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780807861165 |
ISBN-13 | : 0807861162 |
Rating | : 4/5 (65 Downloads) |
In this book, James Sickinger explores the use and preservation of public records in the ancient Athenian democracy of the archaic and classical periods. Athenian public records are most familiar from the survival of inscribed stelai, slabs of marble on which were published decrees, treaties, financial accounts, and other state documents. Working largely from evidence supplied by such inscriptions, Sickinger demonstrates that their texts actually represented only a small part of Athenian record keeping. More numerous and more widely used, he says, were archival texts written on wooden tablets or papyri that were made, and often kept for extended periods of time, by Athenian officials. Beginning with the legislation of Drakon in the seventh century B.C., Sickinger traces the growing use of written records by the Athenian state over the next three centuries, concluding with an examination of the Metroon, the state archive of Athens, during the fourth century. Challenging assumptions about ancient Athenian literacy, democracy, and society, Sickinger argues that the practical use and preservation of laws, decrees, and other state documents were hallmarks of Athenian public life from the earliest times.
Author | : William V. HARRIS |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780674038370 |
ISBN-13 | : 0674038371 |
Rating | : 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
How many people could read and write in the ancient world of the Greeks and Romans? No one has previously tried to give a systematic answer to this question. Most historians who have considered the problem at all have given optimistic assessments, since they have been impressed by large bodies of ancient written material such as the graffiti at Pompeii. They have also been influenced by a tendency to idealize the Greek and Roman world and its educational system. In Ancient Literacy W. V. Harris provides the first thorough exploration of the levels, types, and functions of literacy in the classical world, from the invention of the Greek alphabet about 800 B.C. down to the fifth century A.D. Investigations of other societies show that literacy ceases to be the accomplishment of a small elite only in specific circumstances. Harris argues that the social and technological conditions of the ancient world were such as to make mass literacy unthinkable. Noting that a society on the verge of mass literacy always possesses an elaborate school system, Harris stresses the limitations of Greek and Roman schooling, pointing out the meagerness of funding for elementary education. Neither the Greeks nor the Romans came anywhere near to completing the transition to a modern kind of written culture. They relied more heavily on oral communication than has generally been imagined. Harris examines the partial transition to written culture, taking into consideration the economic sphere and everyday life, as well as law, politics, administration, and religion. He has much to say also about the circulation of literary texts throughout classical antiquity. The limited spread of literacy in the classical world had diverse effects. It gave some stimulus to critical thought and assisted the accumulation of knowledge, and the minority that did learn to read and write was to some extent able to assert itself politically. The written word was also an instrument of power, and its use was indispensable for the construction and maintenance of empires. Most intriguing is the role of writing in the new religious culture of the late Roman Empire, in which it was more and more revered but less and less practiced. Harris explores these and related themes in this highly original work of social and cultural history. Ancient Literacy is important reading for anyone interested in the classical world, the problem of literacy, or the history of the written word.
Author | : Rosalind Thomas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 340 |
Release | : 1989-03-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 0521350255 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780521350259 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Despite its written literature, ancient Greece was in many ways an oral society. The first significant attempt to study the implications of this view stresses the coexistence of literacy and oral tradition and examines their character and interaction.
Author | : Paul Cartledge |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002-08-08 |
ISBN-10 | : 0521525934 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780521525930 |
Rating | : 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
'Kosmos' is the word the ancient Greeks used for human social order. It has therefore a special application to the Greeks' peculiar social and political unit of communal life that they called the 'polis'. Of the many hundreds of such units in classical Greece the best documented and the most complex was democratic Athens. The purpose of this collective 1998 volume is to re-evaluate the foundations of classical Athens' highly successful experiment in communal social existence. Topics addressed include religion and ritualization, political friendship and enmity, gender and sexuality, sports and litigation, and economic and symbolic exchange. The book aims to make a major contribution, theoretical as well as empirical, towards understanding how the social order of community life may be sustained and enhanced.
Author | : Sextus (Empiricus.) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1998 |
ISBN-10 | : 0198244703 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780198244707 |
Rating | : 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Blank presents a new translation into clear modern English of a key treatise by one of the greatest of ancient philosophers, together with the first ever commentary on this work. Sextus Empiricus's Against the Grammarians is a polemical attack on ancient Greek ideas about grammar, and provides one of the best examples of sustained Sceptical reasoning.
Author | : Paul Delsalle |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 2017-07-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781317187868 |
ISBN-13 | : 1317187865 |
Rating | : 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
This revised translation of the classic 1998 Une histoire de l’archivistique provides a wide-ranging international survey of developments in archival practices and management, from the ancient world to the present day. The volume has been substantially updated to incorporate recent scholarship and provide additional examples from the English-speaking world. These new additions complement the original text and offer a broad and up-to-date survey, with examples spanning Europe, Africa, Asia and North and South America. The bibliography has also been updated with new material and supplementary English language sources, making it an accessible and up-to-date resource for those working and researching in the field of archives and archival history. This book is an essential reference volume for both archivists and historians, as well as anyone interested in the history of archives.
Author | : D F Leão |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-09-20 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780857739308 |
ISBN-13 | : 0857739301 |
Rating | : 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Solon (c 658-558 BC) is famous as both statesman and poet but also, and above all, as the paramount lawmaker of ancient Athens. Though his works survive only in fragments, we know from the writings of Herodotus and Plutarch that his constitutional reforms against the venality, greed and political power-play of Attica's tyrants and noblemen were hugely influential-and may even be said to have laid the foundations of western democracy. Solon's legal injunctions covered the widest range of topics and issues: economics and labour; sexual morality; social issues; and society and politics. Yet despite their fame and influence (and Solon's life and work generated a lively reception history), no complete edition of these writings has yet been published. This book offers the definitive critical edition of Solon's laws that has long been needed. It comprises the original Greek fragments with English translations, commentaries, a comprehensive introduction and important comparative Latin texts. It will be enthusiastically welcomed by specialists in ancient Greek language and history.
Author | : Alan K. Bowman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1996-12-05 |
ISBN-10 | : 0521587360 |
ISBN-13 | : 9780521587365 |
Rating | : 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
This collection attempts to set the study of literacy in the ancient world in the wider contexts of the debates among anthropologists over the impact of writing on society.