Umfang:
xiii, 258 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781905125593
Inhalt:
Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others--whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans--saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the political power of Athens in countless wars over several centuries, but that there existed an intriguing variety of anti-Athenian ideologies. This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and casts light on the thinking of ancient peoples who--nowadays--tend to exist in Athens' shadow
Anmerkung:
1. The allies' viewpoint on the Athenian empire: the evidence of Plutarch's Lives
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2. Aigina: island as paradigm and counter-paradigm
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3. Aiginetan attitudes (c.500 -- 424 BC): Athens as eyesore?
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4. Anti -Athenian attitudes in fifth-century Sicily?
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5. Theopompos on Athenian policies and politicians
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6. Anti-Athenian attitudes and the Second Athenian Confederacy
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7. The shaping of the past: local history and fourth-century Delian reactions to Athenian imperialism
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8. In the shadow of Pydna: incorrigible Athens as an opportunity for the Achaeans
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9. Attitudes to Hellenistic Athens: to sneer or to revere?
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10. The image of Athenians in the Greek epigram
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11. Condemning the Athenian past, rejecting the Athenian present: aspects of anti-Athenian discourses in the early imperial period
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12. Reading Greece: travel narratives, aesthetic sensibilities, and the Aiginetan marbles
Sprache:
Englisch
Fachgebiete:
Geschichte
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Altertumswissenschaften
Schlagwort(e):
Antike
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Athenbild
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Antike
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Athenbild
;
Geschichte
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Konferenzschrift
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