Athens : the city as university

1. Verfasser: Livingstone, Niall.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.
Umfang/Format: ix, 124 pages.
Schriftenreihe: Routledge monographs in classical studies
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.