The "Old Oligarch" : the Constitution of the Athenians attributed to Xenophon
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The "Old Oligarch" : the Constitution of the Athenians attributed to Xenophon
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Oxbow Books, c2008
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The Old Oligarch : the Constitution of the Athenians attributed to Xenophon
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Greek text and parallel English translation on opposite pages
Includes bibliographical references (p. [xi]) and index
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Description
'Old Oligarch' is a label often applied to the unknown author of the Athenian Constitution preserved with the works of Xenophon. Probably written in the mid 420s B.C., it is the earliest surviving Athenian prose text, and its author was probably a young pupil of the teachers known as sophists. It is an essay which replies to oligarchic criticisms of the Athenian democracy by agreeing with the critics that democracy is distasteful but arguing that it is appropriate for Athens as a city whose power depends on the poorer citizens who row the navy's ships, and that it is successful and could not easily be overthrown. This edition provides a Greek text and English translation, with Introduction, Commentary and Appendixes which discuss the date, authorship and character of the work, the historical background, the statements and arguments presented by the author and features of the author's style.
Table of Contents
Preface
References
Introduction:
1. The name 'Old Oligarch
2. The title of the work
3. dating
4. authorship
5. The author and his immediate audience
6. The self-interest theory
7. The two-fold class division: the demos versus the oligoi
8. Class designations and class labels
9. Other stylistic features
10. Structure
11. The text
Dates assigned to the Constitution of the Athenians
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Text & translation Constitution of the Athenians
Commentary
Appendixes:
1) The imagined criticisms answered in the work
2) Occurances of the words demos/demotikoi/demokratia
3) Qualities & characteristics ascribed to the demos and the oligoi
4) Class designations & class labels
5) Characteristic vocabulary
6) Examples of verbal repetition
7) Generalisations
Index
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