A culture of freedom : ancient Greece and the origins of Europe / Christian Meier ; translated by Jefferson Chase
2009, First Edition. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. Near fine cloth copy in a very good if slightly bumped and edge-nicked dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #448026
ISBN: 0199588031
Physical description; xvi, 315 pages : illustrations, maps. Notes; Translation of: Kultur, um der Freiheit willen. Contents; Part I. The Question of Beginnings: A most unusual case I: the appropriation of antiquity by medieval and modern Europe; The challenge of freedom; A most unusual case II: the early conditions of the formation of medieval and early modern culture; The constitution of Europe as a continent; Greeks and Persians I: freedom and rule-- Atossa's dream; Europe and Asia in antiquity; Antiquity as European prehistory or early history -- Part II. The Rise of the World of Poleis: A post-mycenaean new beginning : origins of Greek particularity; The dawn of an era : the eighth century BC; The Greeks and the Orient; Colonization; Homer and Hesiod; Gods and priests; Crisis and consolidation: the seventh and sixth centuries BC; Polis individualism and the pan-Hellenic context: the agonistic impulse; The diversity of the poleis: Sparta and other cities; The wars; Polis structure: public sphere and institutions; Crisis: aristocratic rivalries, social conflict, tyranny; Lyric poetry, the symposium, and a reorientation towards virtue; The beginnings of political thought: the 'middling class' ; The beginnings of philosophy and science; Athens's path towards Isonomy and its rise to power; The Aegean world around 500 BC: Greeks and Persians II; Outlook -- Epilogue. Subjects; Greece Civilization To 146 B.C. Greece Politics and government To 146 B.C. Europe Civilization Greek influences.
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