Athens : the city as university
| 1. Verfasser: |
Livingstone, Niall
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
London ; New York :
Routledge Taylor & Francis Group,
2017.
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| Umfang/Format: |
ix, 124 pages. |
| Schriftenreihe: |
Routledge monographs in classical studies
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| ISBN: | 9781315646084 |
| Online-Zugang: |
Online available |
Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
