Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece : Individuals Performing Justice and the Law

by: Farenga, V.

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This study examines how the ancient Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding the intersection of our moral and political lives. Combining contemporary political philosophy with historical, literary, and philosophical texts, it examines a series of remarkable individuals who performed 'scripts' of justice in early Iron Age, archaic, and classical Greece. From the earlier periods, these include Homer's Achilles and Odysseus as heroic individuals who are also prototypical citizens, and Solon the lawgiver, writing the scripts of statute law and the jury trial. In democratic Athens, the focus turns to dialogues between a citizen's moral autonomy and political obligation in Aeschyleon tragedy, Pericles' citizenship paradigm, Antiphon's sophistic thought and forensic oratory, the political leadership of Alcibiades, and Socrates' moral individualism

Introduction
Justice to the dead : prototypes of the citizen and self in early Greece
Performing justice in early Greece : dispute settlement in the Iliad
Self-transformation and the therapy of justice in the Odyssey
Performing the law : the lawgiver, statute law, and the jury trial
Citizenship by degrees : ephebes and demagogues in democratic Athens, 465
460
The naturalization of citizen and self in democratic Athens, 450
411
Democracy's narcissistic citizens: Alcibiades and Socrates
Conclusion

Subjects:
Citizenship
Citizenship Greece Athens History To 1500
Citoyenneté Athènes (Grèce) Histoire Jusqu'à 500
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Democracy
Democracy Greece Athens History To 1500
Démocratie Athènes (Grèce) Histoire Jusqu'à 500
Droit et littérature
Greece Athens
Greek literature
Greek literature History and criticism
History
Justice
Justice Administration (Droit grec)
Justice Histoire Jusqu'à 500
Justice History To 1500
Justice dans la littérature
Justice in literature
Justice, Administration of (Greek law)
Law and literature
Littérature grecque Histoire et critique
POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Process General
To 1500

Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece : Individuals Performing Justice and the Law

by: Farenga, V.

• ISBN-13: 9780521845595
• ISBN-03: 0521845599
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006

Price: 99,00 EURO

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