Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece

Goldhill Simon

ISBN 10: 0521862124 / ISBN 13: 9780521862127

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

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Envoi rapide proche du neuf. 15 24x22 86x2 1336cm. 2010. Broché. 336 pages. As New.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521862124
• ISBN 13: 9780521862127
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
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Synopsis

From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed. Classical scholars have sought to justify these claims in detail by describing developments in fields such as democratic politics, art, rationality, historiography, literature, philosophy, medicine and music, in which classical Greece has been held to have made a revolutionary contribution. In this volume a distinguished cast of contributors offers a fresh consideration of these claims, asking both whether they are well based and what is at stake for their proposers and for us in making them. They look both at modern scholarly argument and its basis and at the claims made by the scholars of the Second Sophistic. The volume will be of interest not only to classical scholars but to all who are interested in the history of scholarship.

Book Description

Fifth- and fourth-century Greece has been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed, with revolutionary developments in politics, art, literature, philosophy, medicine, and music. This book asks whether these claims are well based and what is at stake in making them.