Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens

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Pub. Date: 2002-08-08
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary

A collective volume on the concept ofkosmos? - the human social order.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: defining a kosmos Paul Cartledge
2. Interpersonal relations on Athenian pots: putting others in their place Robin Osborne
3. Political friendship and the ideology of reciprocity Malcolm Schofield
4. The politics of affection: emotional attachments in Athenian society Lin Foxhall
5. Between koinon and idion: legal and social dimensions of religious associations in ancient Athens Ilias Arnaoutoglou
6. Gymnasia and the democratic values of leisure Nick Fisher
7. The seductions of the gaze: Socrates and his girlfriends Simon Goldhill
8. The Athenian political perception of the idiotes Lene Rubinstein
9a. Enmity in fourth-century Athens P. J. Rhodes
9b. The rhetoric of enmity in the Attic orators S. C. Todd
10. The well-ordered polis: topographies of civic space Sitta von Reden
11. The threat from the Piraeus Jim Roy
12. Encounters in the Agora Paul Millett.

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