How to do things with history : new approaches to ancient Greece /
How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. Rather than focus directly on methodology, the essays in this volume demonstrate how some of the most productive and significant methodologies for study...
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New York :
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[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: The "Great Leap" in Early Greek Politics and Political Thought: A Comparative Perspective, Kurt A. Raaflaub
- Chapter 2: Pericles' Utopia
- Reading of Thucydides and Plato, Emily Greenwood
- Chapter 3: How to Turn History into Scenario: Plato's Republic Book 8 on the Role of Political Office in Constitutional Change, Melissa Lane
- Chapter 4: "Cyrus appeared both great and good": Xenophon and the Performativity of Kingship, Carol Atack
- Chapter 5: Jurors and Serial Killers: Loneliness, Deliberation, and Community in Ancient Athens, Alastair J. L. Blanshard
- Chapter 6: The Sparta Game: Violence, Proportionality, Austerity, Collapse, Josiah Ober and Barry R. Weingast
- Chapter 7: Marx and Antiquity, Wilfried Nippel
- Chapter 8: Marxism and Ancient History, Kostas Vlassopoulos
- Chapter 9: Building for the State: A World-Historical Perspective, Walter Scheidel
- Chapter 10: Picturing History: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Tyrannicide in the Art of Classical Athens and Early Imperial China, Jeremy Tanner
- Chapter 11: Imaginary Intercourse: an Illustrated History of Greek Pederasty, Robin Osborne
- Chapter 12: The Boys from Cydathenaeum: Aristophanes versus Cleon Again, Edith Hall
- Chapter 13: How to Write Anti-Roman History, Tim Whitmarsh
- Afterward, Paul Cartledge.