Athens : the city as university

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    • Livingstone, Niall

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Athens : the city as university

Niall Livingstone

（Routledge monographs in classical studies）

Routledge, 2017

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [102]-112) and index

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内容説明

The citizens of ancient Athens were directly responsible for the development and power of its democracy; but how did they learn about politics and what their roles were within it? In this volume Livingstone argues that learning about political praxis (how to be a citizen) was an integral part of the everyday life of ancient Athenians. In the streets, shops and other meeting-places of the city people from all levels of society, from slaves to the very wealthy, exchanged knowledge and competed for power and status. The City as University explores the spaces and occasions where Athenians practised the arts of citizenship for which they and their city became famous. In the agora and on the pnyx, Athenian democracy was about performance and oratory; but the written word opened the way to ever-increasing sophistication in both the practice and theory of politics. As the arts of spin proliferated, spontaneous live debate in which the speaker's authority came from being one of the many remained a core democratic value. Livingstone explores how ideas of democratic leadership evolved from the poetry of the legendary law-giver Solon to the writings of the sophist Alcidamas of Elaia. The volume offers a new approach to the study of ancient education and will be an invaluable tool to students of ancient politics and culture, and to all those studying the history of democracy.

目次

About this book Acknowledgements PART 1: SETTING THE STAGE FOR CITIZENS Introduction: Democratic Knowledge Citizens Modern and Ancient Democracies Intellectual Attainment and Democratic Ideals Myth and Mousike Heroic Politics Hesiod's Poetics of Struggle Solon: Accommodating Athens to the Muse PART 2: CITIZEN SPACES Knowing Where It Happens Democratic Citizenship: Staging and Rehearsal What Did Citizens Learn? Learning at Home Places of Learning The Agora The View beyond the City In and Out of the Barber's Shop PART 3: THE CITIZEN PERFORMER Writing the City Suspicion of Writing in Athens On Writers (People Who Write Written Speeches, or Sophists) The Argument of 'On Writers' A Misdirected Attack on Writing? The Two Faces of the Writer Stylish Spontaneity Conclusion: the City as University Bibliography

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