Umfang:
Online-Ressource (346 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781107030534
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9781139612920
Inhalt:
This book explores the social, political and cultural importance of Thrace to prominent Athenian individuals from the mid-sixth to the mid-fourth century BCE
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership; Dedication; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Chapter One Introduction; The Problem with Equality; Defining Thrace; Sources and Methodology; Pistiros: A Case Study in Material Evidence; Thrace versus Other Lands: The Cases of Alcibiades and Chabrias; Outline of the Book; Chapter Two Thrace as Resource and Refuge I; Introduction to Chapters 2 and 3; The Tyrant: Pisistratus; The Exile as Tyrant: The Philaids; Recovering His Family's Thracian Fortune: Cimon
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Thrace-Experts: Hagnon, Dieitrephes, and ThucydidesChapter Three Thrace as Resource and Refuge II; Alcibiades and Thrasybulus; A Nexus of Thracian Ties; Seduced and Abandoned: Xenophon; Going Native: Iphicrates; Conclusion to Chapters 2 and 3; Chapter Four Athenian Ambivalence toward Thracians and Thracophiles; Introduction; Two Views of Thrace; The Draw of Bendis: The Liminal Existence of Thracians at Athens; The Athenian Response to Thrace's Disciples; Chapter Five The Cultural Appeal of Thrace for the Athenian Elite; Introduction; Gold Masks; Vase-Painting; Helmets
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Feasting and Gift-ExchangeReligion and Cult; The Agon; Conclusion; Chapter Six Thrace as Military Academy; Introduction; Thrace and the Hero of Marathon; A Bad Day at Mycalessus; Thracian Barbarians Save Athenian Democracy!; Iphicrates and the Ideal Infantryman; Conclusion; Chapter Seven Epilogue; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781139616645
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781107030534
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Athens, Thrace, and the Shaping of Athenian Leadership
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
