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Titel:
War, democracy and culture in classical Athens
Enthält:
The symbiosis between democracy and war : the case of ancient Athens
/ David M. Pritchard
pt. 1. The impact of democracy on war ; Thucydides on Athens' democratic advantage in the Archidamian War
/ Josiah Ober
Democratizing courage in classical Athens
/ Ryan K. Balot
pt. 2. Military Innovations of the democracy ; Cavalry, democracy, and military thinking in classical Athens
/ Iain Spence
Light troops in classical Athens
/ Matthew Trundle
pt. 3. The fifth-century drama of war ; Affirming Athenian action : Euripides' portrayal of military activity and the limits of tragic instruction
/ Sophie Mills
Ridiculing a popular war : old comedy and militarism in classical Athens
/ David Konstan
pt. 4. War in fourth-century speeches ; War in the law-court : some Athenian discussions
/ Alastair J.L. Blanshard
Athenian militarism and the recourse to war
/ Peter Hunt
pt. 5. Soldiers in privately purchased art ; Democratic ideology, the events of war, and the iconography of Attic funerary sculpture
/ Robin Osborne
The warrior loutrophoroi of fifth-century Athens
/ Patricia Hannah
"I am Eurymedon" : tensions and ambiguities in Athenian war imagery
/ Margaret C. Miller --...
Beschreibung:
"Athens is famous for its direct democracy and its innovative culture. Not widely known is its contemporaneous military revolution. Athens invented or perfected new forms of combat, strategy, and military organisation and was directly responsible for raising the scale of Greek warfare to a different order of magnitude. The timing of this revolution is striking: it followed directly the popular uprising of 508 BC and coincided with the flowering of Athenian culture, which was largely brought about by democracy. This raises the intriguing possibility that popular government was one of the major causes of Athenian military success. Ancient writers may have thought as much, but the traditional assumptions of ancient historians and political scientists have meant that the impact of democracy on war has received almost no scholarly attention. This volume brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and political scientists to explore this important but neglected problem from multiple perspectives"--Provided by publisher
"Athens is famous for its direct democracy and its innovative culture. Not widely known is its contemporaneous military revolution. Athens invented or perfected new forms of combat, strategy, and military organisation and was directly responsible for raising the scale of Greek warfare to a different order of magnitude. The timing of this revolution is striking: it followed directly the popular uprising of 508 BC and coincided with the flowering of Athenian culture, which was largely brought about by democracy. This raises the intriguing possibility that popular government was one of the major causes of Athenian military success. Ancient writers may have thought as much, but the traditional assumptions of ancient historians and political scientists have meant that the impact of democracy on war has received almost no scholarly attention. This volume brings together ancient historians, archaeologists, classicists and political scientists to explore this important but neglected problem from multiple perspectives"--Provided by publisher