Vincent Farenga

Gebundenes Buch

Citizen and Self in Ancient Greece

Beschreibung

How can the ancient Greeks help us define ourselves as both citizens and individual selves? This study looks to the ways the Greeks decided questions of justice as a key to understanding how our moral and political lives can be intertwined. Using Greek epic, law, drama, philosophy and forensic rhetoric over nearly six hundred years, it identifies the various scripts of citizen life that inspired different philosophies of moral individualism and political obligation in remarkable individuals from Achilles and Odysseus to Pericles, Alcibiades and Socrates.

Autor

Vincent Farenga is associate professor of classics and comparative literature at the University of Southern California. He has contributed to Arethusa, Helios, and Modern Language Notes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 606
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 1122g
• ISBN-13: 9780521845595
• ISBN-10: 0521845599
• Artikelnr.: 22394787