Justice as an aspect of the polis idea in Solon's political poems : a reading of the fragments in light of the researches of new classical archaeology /

Justice as an aspect of the polis idea in Solon's political poems : a reading of the fragments in light of the researches of new classical archaeology /

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This book examines the meaning of justice or ""dike"" in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The first two chapters argue that neither standard historical nor literary treatments have provided an adequate foundation for understanding Solon's &...

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Main Author: Almeida, Joseph A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003.
Series:Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 243.
Subjects:
Solon, > approximately 630 B.C.-approximately 560 B.C. > Poetic works.
Political poetry, Greek > History and criticism.
Excavations (Archaeology) > Greece > Athens.
Politics and literature > Greece > Athens.
Justice in literature.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Chapter I Solon: Historical Sources and Scholarship: What We Do and Do Not Know
  • Preliminaries
  • Section 1: Solon in the Athenaion Politeia and Plutarch's Life of Solon
  • Section 2: The Contours of Modern Scholarship on Solon
  • Chronology
  • Hectemorage: Land, Society, and Economy
  • Popular Citizenship
  • Summation
  • Chapter II Literary Criticism of Solon's Political Poems after Jaeger
  • Preliminaries
  • Section 1: Werner Jaeger on the ""Elegy on the Polis:"" A Natural Law of Justice.
  • Section 2: Recent Criticism of the ""Elegy on the Polis"" Justice Demythologized: Harmony and Legislation
  • Section 3: Dike in the ""Elegy on the Polis"" and the ""Elegy to the Muses""
  • Summation: New Directions
  • Chapter III The Polis Idea in the Work of the New Classical Archaeologists
  • Preliminaries: The New Classical Archaeology and the Study of Solon
  • Section 1: Political Tendencies
  • Section 2: Athenian Particularities
  • Summation: The Polis Idea
  • Chapter IV The Lexicography and Internal Poetics of Dike
  • Preliminaries
  • Section 1: Lexicography of Dike.
  • Section 2: The Framework of Dike in Solon's Political Poems
  • Section 3: The Usages of Dike within the Framework
  • Chapter V Solon's Understanding of Dike in Light of the Polis Idea
  • Preliminaries: Solon and the Polis Idea
  • Section 1: The Foundational Meaning of Dike: Fragment 4 and The Polis Idea as the 'August Foundations of Dike'
  • Section 2: Theory into Practice: Fragment 36 and the Specific Uses of Dike
  • Summation
  • Concluding Reflections
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I: The Atthidographers and the Preservation of the Axones.
  • Appendix II: Regionalist Theories of Conflict in Archaic Greece
  • Appendix III: Hansen on Solon in The Orators and the Minimum Aristotelian View of Solon's Democratic Reforms
  • Appendix IV: Particulars in The Discussion of Solon's Chronology
  • Sources
  • Hammond's Calculation: Archonship (594) and Constitutional Commission (592)
  • Miller on Chronological Evidence Independent of the Archon List
  • Appendix V
  • Appendix VI: The Hoplite and the Polis: Brief Miscellanea
  • Challenge to the Significance of Hoplite Reform in the Rise of the Polis.
  • Law Givers and the Deros Inscription: the Polis Idea before the Hoplite
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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