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Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion

By: Matthew Dillon

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Girls and Women in Classical Greek Religion

By: Matthew Dillon

It has often been thought that participation in fertility rituals was women's most important religious activity in classical Greece. Matthew Dillon's wide-ranging study makes it clear that women engaged in numerous other rites and cults, and that their role in Greek religion was actually more important than that of men. Women invoked the gods' help in becoming pregnant, venerated the god of wine, worshipped new and exotic deities, used magic for both erotic and pain-relieving purposes, and far more besides. Clear and comprehensive, this volume challenges many stereotypes of Greek women and offers unexpected insights into their experience of religion. With more than fifty illustrations, and translated extracts from contemporary texts, this is an essential resource for the study of women and religion in classical Greece.

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113436508X

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Ancient Greece

Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander

By: Matthew Dillon,Matthew Dillion,Lynda Garland

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Ancient Greece

Social and Historical Documents from Archaic Times to the Death of Alexander

By: Matthew Dillon,Matthew Dillion,Lynda Garland

The third edition of a definitive collection of source material on Greek social and political history from 800 to 399 BC, from all over the Greek world.

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1136991387

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Temple

By: Matthew Reilly

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Temple

By: Matthew Reilly

A blockbuster thriller from bestselling author Matthew Reilly. Four centuries ago, a precious idol was hidden in the jungles of Peru. To the Incan people, it is still the ultimate symbol of their spirit. To William race, an American linguist enlisted by the U.S. Army to decipher the clues to its location, it's the ultimate symbol of the apocalypse... Carved from a rare stone not found on Earth, the idol possesses elements more destructive than any nuclear bomb--a virtual planet killer. In the wrong hands it could mean the end of mankind. And whoever possesses the idol, possesses the unfathomable--and cataclysmic--power of the gods... Now, in the foothills of the Andes, Race's team has arrived--but they're not alone. And soon they'll discover that to penetrate the temple of the idol is to break the first rule of survival. Because some treasures are meant to stay buried..and forces are ready to kill to keep it that way...

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Macmillan

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1429908165

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Atlantis: Egyptian Genesis

By: Matthew Kurtz,Ian Driscoll

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Atlantis: Egyptian Genesis

By: Matthew Kurtz,Ian Driscoll

An island civilization, home to a forgotten race, destroyed in one terrible day and night - lost forever beneath the waves of a merciless ocean. Nearly all of us are familiar with the story of Atlantis, and yet how much do we truly know? In this work, the authors explore the Egyptian roots of Plato's famous narrative, and examine the strange similarities between Atlantis and worldwide creation mythologies. A fresh and unique look at an ancient enigma, the book is essential for anyone interested in the mystery of Atlantis, layman and scholar alike. With an appendix on Egyptian mythology and its connection to Plato's Atlantis by renowned musicologist Ernest G. McClain.

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1448655900

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Athens, Rome, and England

America's Constitutional Heritage

By: Matthew A Pauley

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Athens, Rome, and England

America's Constitutional Heritage

By: Matthew A Pauley

Uncovering the roots of the U.S. Constitution The U.S. Constitution influences nearly every aspect of our lives. But for all the fierce disputes about what the Constitution means, the historical foundations of America’s legal and political institutions pass almost unnoticed today. This is a glaring oversight, one that clouds our understanding of the Constitution and American law and politics in general. For the Constitution did not spring up suddenly in 1787. The framers were influenced at every turn by a tradition of constitutional development dating back to ancient times. Political scientist and legal scholar Matthew A. Pauley fills in the blanks in our understanding by chronicling the three most important influences on the American constitutional experience: ancient Greece, ancient Rome, and England. Pauley’s masterful historical survey sheds new light on our system of representative democracy, our court structure, and our traditions of law—civil and criminal, public and private. No student of law or government can afford to ignore this highly readable, deeply informative work. Athens, Rome, and England adds immeasurably to our appreciation and understanding of the roots of the American Constitution and our legal and political system.

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Open Road Media

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1497675138

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From Polypragmon to Curiosus

Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome Behaviour

By: Matthew Leigh

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From Polypragmon to Curiosus

Ancient Concepts of Curious and Meddlesome Behaviour

By: Matthew Leigh

This is a study of how Greek and Latin writers describe curious, meddlesome, and exaggerated behavior. Founded on a family of Greek terms, and the Latin words used to describe them, Leigh surveys how they were used in Greek literature from the 5th and 4th centuries BC and their Latin usage in relation to Hellenistic and imperial Greek.

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Oxford University Press

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0199668612

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By Roman Hands

Inscriptions and Graffiti for Students of Latin

By: Matthew Hartnett

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By Roman Hands

Inscriptions and Graffiti for Students of Latin

By: Matthew Hartnett

By Roman Hands takes Latin out of the textbook and allows students to see and translate Latin as it actually appeared on Roman monuments, walls and tombs. The first collection of entirely authentic and un-adapted inscriptions and graffiti accessible to beginning and intermediate students of Latin, By Roman Hands unites the study of language and culture in a novel and compelling way and at a level that the Latin can be grasped and discussed by early Latin learners. Ranging from a love letter hastily scratched on a Pompeian wall to the proclamation of an emperor’s achievements formally inscribed on a monumental arch, these carefully selected texts afford fascinating glimpses into the lives and minds of the Romans, even as they illustrate and reinforce the basic elements of the Latin language. This edition, revised to work in parallel with the second edition of Susan Shelmerdine' s Introduction to Latin or any standard beginning Latin text, includes more texts and illustrations, and an additional section of inscriptions for practice and review.

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Hackett Publishing

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1585105120

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Classical Greek Oligarchy

A Political History

By: Matthew Simonton

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Classical Greek Oligarchy

A Political History

By: Matthew Simonton

Classical Greek Oligarchy thoroughly reassesses an important but neglected form of ancient Greek government, the "rule of the few." Matthew Simonton challenges scholarly orthodoxy by showing that oligarchy was not the default mode of politics from time immemorial, but instead emerged alongside, and in reaction to, democracy. He establishes for the first time how oligarchies maintained power in the face of potential citizen resistance. The book argues that oligarchs designed distinctive political institutions—such as intra-oligarchic power sharing, targeted repression, and rewards for informants—to prevent collective action among the majority population while sustaining cooperation within their own ranks. To clarify the workings of oligarchic institutions, Simonton draws on recent social science research on authoritarianism. Like modern authoritarian regimes, ancient Greek oligarchies had to balance coercion with co-optation in order to keep their subjects disorganized and powerless. The book investigates topics such as control of public space, the manipulation of information, and the establishment of patron-client relations, frequently citing parallels with contemporary nondemocratic regimes. Simonton also traces changes over time in antiquity, revealing the processes through which oligarchy lost the ideological battle with democracy for legitimacy. Classical Greek Oligarchy represents a major new development in the study of ancient politics. It fills a longstanding gap in our knowledge of nondemocratic government while greatly improving our understanding of forms of power that continue to affect us today.

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Princeton University Press

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0691192057

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Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership

By: Matthew A. Sears

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Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership

By: Matthew A. Sears

From the mid-sixth to the mid-fourth century BCE a nexus of connections to Thrace defined the careers of several of Athens' most prominent figures, including Pisistratus, Miltiades, Alcibiades and Iphicrates. This book explores the importance of Thrace to these individuals and its resulting significance in the political, cultural and social history of Athens. Thrace was vitally important for Athens thanks to its natural resources and access to strategic waterways, which were essential to a maritime empire, and connections to the area conferred wealth and military influence on certain Athenians and offered them a refuge if they faced political persecution at home. However, Thrace's importance to prominent individuals transcended politics: its culture was also an important draw. Thrace was a world free of Athenian political, social and cultural constraints – one that bore a striking resemblance to the world of Homeric epic.

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Cambridge University Press

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The Vision of the Soul

By: James Matthew Wilson

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The Vision of the Soul

By: James Matthew Wilson

Ours is an age full of desires but impoverished in its understanding of where those desires lead—an age that claims mastery over the world but also claims to find the world as a whole absurd or unintelligible. In The Vision of the Soul, James Matthew Wilson seeks to conserve the great insights of the western tradition by giving us a new account of them responsive to modern discontents. The western— or Christian Platonist—tradition, he argues, tells us that man is an intellectual animal, born to pursue the good, to know the true, and to contemplate all things in beauty. Wilson begins by reconceiving the intellectual conservatism born of Edmund Burke’s jeremiad against the French Revolution as an effort to preserve the West’s vision of man and the cosmos as ordered by and to beauty. After defining the achievement of that vision and its tradition, Wilson offers an extended study of the nature of beauty and the role of the fine arts in shaping a culture but above all in opening the human intellect to the perception of the form of reality. Through close studies of Theodor W. Adorno and Jacques Maritain, he recovers the classical vision of beauty as a revelation of truth and being. Finally, he revisits the ancient distinction between reason and story-telling, between mythos and logos, in order to rejoin the two. Story-telling is foundational to the forms of the fine arts, but it is no less foundational to human reason. Human life in turn constitutes a specific kind of form—a story form. The ancient conception of human life as a pilgrimage to beauty itself is one that we can fully embrace only if we see the essential correlation between reason and story and the essential convertibility of truth, goodness and beauty in beauty. By turns a study in fundamental ontology, aesthetics, and political philosophy, Wilson’s book invites its readers to a renewal of the West’s intellectual tradition.

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Dictionary Of Modern Art

By: Matthew Baigell

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Dictionary Of Modern Art

By: Matthew Baigell

Alphabetically arranged and crossreferenced entries provide background information on major American painters, sculptors, printmakers, and photographers, plus important topics and movements central to American art from the sixteenth century to the present.

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Taylor & Francis

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0429688709

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The Limits of Altruism in Democratic Athens

By: Matthew Robert Christ

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The Limits of Altruism in Democratic Athens

By: Matthew Robert Christ

Examines the behavior of Athenians in the classical period, arguing that Athenians felt little pressure as individuals to help fellow citizens.

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1107029775

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Politics in the Hebrew Bible

God, Man, and Government

By: Matthew B. Schwartz,Kalman J. Kaplan

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Politics in the Hebrew Bible

God, Man, and Government

By: Matthew B. Schwartz,Kalman J. Kaplan

In Politics in the Hebrew Bible: God, Man, and Government, Kalman J. Kaplan and Matthew B. Schwartz offer a genre-straddling examination of the political themes in the Jewish Bible. By studying the political implications of 42 biblical stories (organized into the categories Social Order, Government and Leadership, Domestic Relations, Societal Relations, Morale and Mission, and Foreign Policy), the authors seek to discern a cohesive political viewpoint embodied by the Jewish Bible.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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The Lord of the Sea

By: Matthew Phipps Shiel

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The Lord of the Sea

By: Matthew Phipps Shiel

Matthew Phipps Shiell, also known as M. P. Shiel, was a prolific British writer of West Indian descent. His legal surname remained "Shiell" though he adopted the shorter version as a de facto pen name. He is remembered mostly for supernatural and scientific romances. His work was published as serials, novels, and as short stories. The Purple Cloud (1901; 1929) remains his most famous and often reprinted novel.

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Simon and Schuster

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1609778685

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Africa's Gene Revolution

Genetically Modified Crops and the Future of African Agriculture

By: Matthew A. Schnurr

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Africa's Gene Revolution

Genetically Modified Crops and the Future of African Agriculture

By: Matthew A. Schnurr

As development donors invest hundreds of millions of dollars into improved crops designed to alleviate poverty and hunger, Africa has emerged as the final frontier in the global debate over agricultural biotechnology. The first data-driven assessment of the ecological, social, and political factors that shape our understanding of genetic modification, Africa's Gene Revolution surveys twenty years of efforts to use genomics-based breeding to enhance yields and livelihoods for African farmers. Matthew Schnurr considers the full range of biotechnologies currently in commercial use and those in development - including hybrids, marker-assisted breeding, tissue culture, and genetic engineering. Drawing on interviews with biotechnology experts alongside research conducted with more than two hundred farmers across eastern, western, and southern Africa, Schnurr reveals a profound incongruity between the optimistic rhetoric that accompanies genetic modification technology and the realities of the smallholder farmers who are its intended beneficiaries. Through the lens of political ecology, this book demonstrates that the current emphasis on improved seeds discounts the geographic, social, ecological, and economic contexts in which the producers of these crops operate. Bringing the voices of farmers to the foreground of this polarizing debate, Africa's Gene Revolution contends that meaningful change will come from a reconfiguration not only of the plant's genome, but of the entire agricultural system.

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0228000459

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Space Library

Revenge of the Vampire Zombie Bunnies

By: Stephen Matthew Nolan

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Space Library

Revenge of the Vampire Zombie Bunnies

By: Stephen Matthew Nolan

Lost, jobless and desperate what is a librarian to do? Space Library: REVENGE OF THE VAMPIRE ZOMBIE BUNNIES chronicles the exciting adventure of a librarian from Earth fighting to keep his job in a library in outer space. With friends such as Chubba the Gormorian library technician, Zoe the beautiful cataloger and Cal the library reference robot, the head librarian must fight mad dictators, vampire zombie bunnies and his own library team in order to make sure that his library is the best library in the entire Inter Galactic Library System. Along the way he discovers more about himself and his own life than he ever thought possible. If you are a librarian or ever wanted to be one then this is the book for you!

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Absolute Impact

The Drive for Personal Leadership

By: Matthew May

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Absolute Impact

The Drive for Personal Leadership

By: Matthew May

This leadership fable penetrates the deeper issues involved in achieving maximum positive impact in work and life. Through an entertaining dramatic dialogue, a fading Prince and his three most trusted Courtiers debate the central challenges facing the Princes heir in leading himself toward a bright future of truly significant accomplishment.

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0972979409

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Incarnate Earth

Deep Incarnation and the Face of Christ

By: Matthew Eaton

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Incarnate Earth

Deep Incarnation and the Face of Christ

By: Matthew Eaton

Incarnate Earth reimagines the doctrine of Incarnation by extending the unity between Creator and creation beyond Jesus to the entire world. In dialogue with contemporary theologies of deep incarnation and the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas, the author argues that the face of Christ is encountered in the cruciform demand for justice embodied in the creaturely finitude and vulnerability that grounds ethics. Central to this vision is a recognition that the religious role-functions at the heart of Jesus’ life—the revelation of God and the redemption of the world—are performed throughout the physical world, irreducible to humanity or one heroic representative of the species. Thus, the human encounters the divine Christ in and as the face of any vulnerable thing—animal, vegetal, elemental, or otherwise—not as a transcendent being mediated through humanity. The radical nature of this reimagination necessitates renewed discussions of ecological and animal ethics, calling for compassionate care for all vulnerable bodies insofar as this is possible. It will be of interest to scholars of Christian theology and the philosophy of religion, particularly those focused on ecotheology, religious naturalism, and environmental ethics.

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1000834263

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Jacaranda Humanities Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum, LearnON and Print

By: Robert Darlington,Judy Mraz,Graeme Smithies,Matthew Richardson,Ben Rood,Cathy Bedson,Anne Low,Simon Phelan

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Jacaranda Humanities Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum, LearnON and Print

By: Robert Darlington,Judy Mraz,Graeme Smithies,Matthew Richardson,Ben Rood,Cathy Bedson,Anne Low,Simon Phelan

Jacaranda Humanities Alive 7 Victorian Curriculum, 2nd Edition learnON & Print This combined print and digital title provides 100% coverage of the Victorian Curriculum for Humanities. The textbook comes with a complimentary activation code for learnON, the powerful digital learning platform making learning personalised and visible for both students and teachers. The latest editions of Jacaranda Humanities Alive Victorian Curriculum series include these key features: Choice - four titles in one, or single-subject titles teachON - video lessons by Victoria's best teachers, teaching advice and lesson plans learnON - our most powerful digital learning platform An immersive digital platform in which students and teachers are connected Rich media to engage and inspire Immediate, corrective feedback for students and an in-built testmaker for teachers to create assignments from a large pool of questions for immediate, spaced and mixed practice. Results reported against skills and content allow unmatched visibility of students' progress. Thinking Big research projects - creative, imaginative, collaborative activities SkillBuilders - Tell me, Show me, Let me do it! For teachers, learnON includes additional teacher resources such as quarantined questions and answers, curriculum grids and work programs.

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0730372839

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Jacaranda Humanities and Social Sciences 7 for Western Australia, LearnON and Print

By: Robert Darlington,Judy Mraz,Graeme Smithies,Matthew Richardson,Anne Dempster,Anne Low,Cathy Bedson,Benjamin Rood,Angela Diamantopoulos,Kathryn Allen,Allan Hallet

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Jacaranda Humanities and Social Sciences 7 for Western Australia, LearnON and Print

By: Robert Darlington,Judy Mraz,Graeme Smithies,Matthew Richardson,Anne Dempster,Anne Low,Cathy Bedson,Benjamin Rood,Angela Diamantopoulos,Kathryn Allen,Allan Hallet

Jacaranda Humanities and Social Sciences 7 WA Curriculum, 2nd Edition learnON & Print This combined print and digital title provides 100% coverage of the WA Curriculum for Humanities and Social Sciences. The textbook comes with a complimentary activation code for learnON, the powerful digital learning platform making learning personalised and visible for both students and teachers. The latest editions of Jacaranda Humanities and Social Sciences for Western Australia series include these key features: Content is completely revised and updated, aligned to the WA Curriculum, and consistent across all platforms - learnON, eBookPLUS, PDF, iPad app and print Concepts are brought to life with engaging content, diagrams and illustrations, and digital resources including interactivities, videos, weblinks and projects Exercises are carefully sequenced and graded to allow for differentiated individual pathways through the question sets Answers and sample responses are provided for every question HASS Skills are explored and developed through new SkillBuilders with our much-loved Tell me, Show me, Let me do it! approach Brand new downloadable eWorkbooks provide additional differentiated, customisable activities to further develop students' skills Enhanced teaching support including teaching advice, lesson plans, work programs and quarantined assessments For teachers, learnON includes additional teacher resources such as quarantined questions and answers, curriculum grids and work programs.

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0730387429

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Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece

By: Matthew Dillon

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Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece

By: Matthew Dillon

This volume explores the religious motivations for pilgrimage and reveals the main preoccupations of worshippers in Ancient Greece. Dillon examines the main sanctuaries of Delphi, Epidauros and Olympia, as well as the less well-known oracle of Didyma in Asia Minor and the festivals at the Isthmus of Corinth. He discusses the modes of travel to the sites, means of communication between pilgrims and the religious and ritual practices at the sanctuaries themselves. A unique insight into pilgrimage in Ancient Greece is presented, focusing on the diverse aspects of pilgrimage; the role of women and children, the religious festivals of particular ethnic groups and the colourful celebrations involving music, athletics and equestrian events. Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Ancient Greece is an accessible and fascinating volume, which reveals how the concept of pilgrimage contributes to Greek religion as a whole.

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1135099871

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Dangerous Counsel

Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece

By: Matthew Landauer

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Dangerous Counsel

Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece

By: Matthew Landauer

We often talk loosely of the “tyranny of the majority” as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an important structural feature of Athenian democracy. Like the tyrant, the Athenian demos was an unaccountable political actor with the power to hold its subordinates to account. And like the tyrant, the demos could be dangerous to counsel since the orator speaking before the assembled demos was accountable for the advice he gave. With Dangerous Counsel, Matthew Landauer analyzes the sometimes ferocious and unpredictable politics of accountability in ancient Greece and offers novel readings of ancient history, philosophy, rhetoric, and drama. In comparing the demos to a tyrant, thinkers such as Herodotus, Plato, Isocrates, and Aristophanes were attempting to work out a theory of the badness of unaccountable power; to understand the basic logic of accountability and why it is difficult to get right; and to explore the ways in which political discourse is profoundly shaped by institutions and power relationships. In the process they created strikingly portable theories of counsel and accountability that traveled across political regime types and remain relevant to our contemporary political dilemmas.

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University of Chicago Press

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022665379X

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The Litigious Athenian

By: Matthew R. Christ

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The Litigious Athenian

By: Matthew R. Christ

The democratic revolution that swept Classical Athens transformed the role of law in Athenian society. The legal process and the popular courts took on new and expanded roles in civic life. Although these changes occurred with the consent of the "people" (demos), Athenians were ambivalent about the spread of legal culture. In particular, they were aware that unscrupulous individuals might manipulate the laws and the legal process to serve their own purposes. Indeed, throughout the Classical Period, when Athenians gathered in public and private settings, they regularly discussed, debated, and complained about legal chicanery, or sukophantia. In The Litigious Athenian, Matthew Christ explores what this ancient discussion reveals about how Athenians conceived of and responded to problematic aspects of their collective legal experience. The transfer of significant judicial power from the elite Areopagus Council to the popular courts was a crucial step in the establishment of Athenian democracy, Christ notes, and Athenians took great pride in their legal system. They chose not to make significant changes to their legal institutions even though they could have done so at any time through a majority vote of the Assembly. Determining that the term sykophant was applied rhetorically rather than, as some have believed, to describe a specific subclass, Christ shows how the public debates over legal chicanery helped define the limits of ethical behavior under the law and in public life.

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