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Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens

Rethinking the Other in Antiquity

PREFACE ix ABBREVIATIONS xiii INTRODUCTION Defining Criticism from Homer to Aristotle 1 PART I ARCHAIC ROOTS OF CLASSICAL AESTHETICS 23 ONE Table Talkand Symposium 25 TWO Xenophanes and the "Ancient Quarrel" 46 THREE Allegory and the Traditions of Epic Interpretation 67 PART II: THE INVENTION OF POETRY 91 FOUR Song and Artifact: Simonidean Monuments 93 FIVE Singer and Craftsman in Pindar and Bacchylides 113 SIX The Origin of the Word "Poet" 131 PART III: TOWARD A THEORY OF POETRY 159 SEVEN Materialist Poetics: Democritus and Gorgias 161 EIGHT Literary Culture and Democracy: Poets and Teachers in Classical Athens 188 NINE Literary Culture in Plato's Republic :The Sound of Ideology 209 PART IV LITERARY THEORY IN THE FOURTH CENTURY 227 TEN The Invention of Literature: Theories of Prose and the Theory of Poetry 229 ELEVEN Laws of Poetry: Genre and the Literary System 250 TWELVE The Rise of the Critic: Poetic Contests from Homer to Aristotle 272 EPILOGUE 294 BIBLIOGRAPHY 297 INDEX OF PASSAGES ISCUSSED 331

The Origins of Criticism: Literary Culture and Poetic Theory in Classical Greece

Hellenism and Empire explores identity, politics, and culture in the Greek world of the first three centuries AD, the period known as the second sophistic. The sources of this identity were the words and deeds of classical Greece, and the emphasis placed on Greekness and Greek heritage was far greater now than at any other time. Yet this period is often seen as a time of happy consensualism between the Greek and Roman halves of the Roman Empire. The first part of the book shows that Greek identity came before any loyalty to Rome (and was indeed partly a reaction to Rome), while the views of the major authors of the period, which are studies in the second part, confirm and restate the prior claims of Hellenism.

Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, A. D. 50-250

List of Images and Tables xi Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxi Abbreviations xxv 1 The Efflorescence of Classical Greece 1 2 Ants around a Pond: An Ecology of City-States 21 3 Political Animals: A Theory of Decentralized Cooperation 45 4 Wealthy Hellas: Measuring Efflorescence 71 5 Explaining Hellas' Wealth: Fair Rules and Competition 101 6 Citizens and Specialization before 550 BCE 123 7 From Tyranny to Democracy, 550-465 BCE 157 8 Golden Age of Empire, 478-404 BCE 191 9 Disorder and Growth, 403-340 BCE 223 10 Political Fall, 359-334 BCE 261 11 Creative Destruction and Immortality 293 Appendix I: Regions of the Greek World: Population, Size, Fame 317 Appendix II: King, City, and Elite Game, Josiah Ober and Barry Weingast 321 Notes 329 Bibliography 367 Index 401

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

A. Stewart, Faces of Power. Alexander’s Image and Hellenistic Politics (Berkeley 1993)

In conclusion, although the disciples and admirers of Socrates were not literally themselves furnished with the demonic gaze of the true Blepedaimon, it could be said that it was by their being in thrall to, and—in the most literal sense—fascinated by, Socrates’ insistently glaring eyes that their appearance and behaviour could, at least in the case of Chaerephon, be accounted for. Plato himself provides an allusion to the magical, paralytic powers which he seemed to exert over those with whom he conversed in Meno 80a, who says in remonstrance ηοθυε0ειΚ νε λα$ ζασν0υυειΚ λα$ 2υεγξVΚ λαυεπ;δειΚ, going on to compare Socrates to ‘the flat torpedo fish’ (ξ0σλθ), which paralyses its prey before devouring it. In a letter of Alciphron (2.38) a father attributes the craziness (γ μοΚ) of his deranged son, νπετ%ξ ω Gυοφ δαιν ξψξ ε6Κ α2υ*ξ ο2λ Iγψ μ ηειξ,14 to his always gazing upon the ρ ανα 2πουσ παιοξ of certain philosophers inhabiting a phrontisterion, who although there named Cynics are described in language that clearly recalls the famous picture of the Socratics, and particularly Chaerephon, in Clouds. A tradition is recorded, in a number of writers from Cicero (Fat. 5.10, Tusc. 4.80) to the fourth/fifth-century monk John Cassian (Collationes 13.5.3), attributed to the mysterious physiognomist Zopyrus (a contemporary of Socrates whose name was the title of a dialogue by his pupil Phaedo), who interested himself in identifying a man’s character from his facial features, about the grossness of Socrates’ Silenus face, and his Bνναυα παιδεσατυο/, which the philosopher was obliged to discount. One wonders whether Alcibiades’ elaborate panegyric in his somewhat bizarre eulogy in Plato’s Symposium about the beautiful interior of Socrates satyr-like exterior is a defence against such a current unfavourable opinion.

Lycurgus 1.149 and those two Voting Urns

Greek Orators II: Dinarchus and Hyperides

The common opinion is to identify the Demosthenes at 56.50 with the orator. However, this identification is extremely unlikely, especially on chronological grounds. This article attempts to narrow down the identification by proposing another Demosthenes, and in the process points out the methodological danger of identifying a homonym with the famous bearer of the name.

Who is the Demosthenes at the end of Demosthenes 56, Against Dionysodorus ? An exercise in methodology

Alexander and Athens in 324/3: On the Greek Attitude to the Macedonian Hegemony

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