The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athensâ internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
The debate on Athenian democratic ideology has long been polarised around two extremes. A Marxist tradition views ideology as a cover-up for Athensâ internal divisions. Another tradition, sometimes referred to as culturalist, interprets it neutrally as the fixed set of ideas shared by the members of the Athenian community.
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New Approaches to Ancient Greek Institutional History
Matteo Barbato is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Greek History at the University of Milan. He is the author of The Ideology of Democratic Athens: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past (EUP, 2020). His research focuses on the cultural, political and institutional history of Athenian democracy and on post-classical Greek historiography.
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Preface List of tables List of illustrations Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1. A brief history of ideology 1.2. Ideology and democratic Athens 1.3. Ideology, New Institutionalism and social memory 1.4. Myth, memory and institutions in democratic Athens 1.5. Outline of the book 2. Myth and Athenian democracy 2.1. The dramatic festivals and the Panathenaea 2.2. The institutional settings of Attic oratory 2.3. Myth in private contexts 2.4. Myths and variants in democratic Athens 2.5. Conclusions 3. The discursive parameters of Athenian democratic institutions 3.1. The state funeral for the war dead 3.2. The lawcourts 3.3. The Assembly and the Council 3.4. The dramatic festivals 3.5. Conclusions 4. Exclusiveness and eugeneia in the myth of autochthony 4.1. Autochthony, exclusiveness and eugeneia 4.2. Eugeneia: from Homeric society to democratic Athens 4.3. Autochthony and collective eugeneia at the state funeral 4.4. Deconstructing autochthony on the tragic stage 4.5. Autochthony and exclusiveness in Apollodorus' Against Neaera 4.6. Conclusions 5. Between charis and philanthropia: the Heraclidae 5.1. Athens and the Heraclidae: charis or philanthropia? 5.2. Between charis and philanthropia 5.3. Euripidean tragedy and reciprocity 5.4. Lysias and Athenian philanthropia 5.5. Charis and philanthropia in Isocrates' Panegyricus 5.6. Conclusions 6. Fading shades of hybris: the Attic Amazonomachy 6.1. Hybris and the causes of the Attic Amazonomachy 6.2. Hybris: an introduction 6.3. Lysias: the state funeral and the discourse of hybris 6.4. Theseus and the Amazons in Aeschylus' Eumenides 6.5. An allusion to the abduction in a private setting? 6.6. Theseus' abduction of Antiope in the figurative arts 6.7. The abduction of Antiope in mythographers and Atthidographers 6.8. The abduction of Antiope in Isocrates' private rhetoric 6.9. Conclusions 7. Combining hybris and philanthropia: the myth of Adrastus 7.1. Philanthropia and hybris: values in interaction 7.2. Athenian philanthropia, Theban hybris: Lysias' Funeral Oration 7.3. Philanthropia, hybris and advantage in Euripides' Suppliant Women 7.4. The myth of Adrastus in Procles' speech to the Assembly 7.5. The myth of Adrastus in a fictional Assembly 7.6. Questioning Theban hybris in a private context 7.7. Conclusions 8. Conclusions Bibliography Index locorum General index
Preface List of tables List of illustrations Abbreviations 1. Introduction 1.1. A brief history of ideology 1.2. Ideology and democratic Athens 1.3. Ideology, New Institutionalism and social memory 1.4. Myth, memory and institutions in democratic Athens 1.5. Outline of the book 2. Myth and Athenian democracy 2.1. The dramatic festivals and the Panathenaea 2.2. The institutional settings of Attic oratory 2.3. Myth in private contexts 2.4. Myths and variants in democratic Athens 2.5. Conclusions 3. The discursive parameters of Athenian democratic institutions 3.1. The state funeral for the war dead 3.2. The lawcourts 3.3. The Assembly and the Council 3.4. The dramatic festivals 3.5. Conclusions 4. Exclusiveness and eugeneia in the myth of autochthony 4.1. Autochthony, exclusiveness and eugeneia 4.2. Eugeneia: from Homeric society to democratic Athens 4.3. Autochthony and collective eugeneia at the state funeral 4.4. Deconstructing autochthony on the tragic stage 4.5. Autochthony and exclusiveness in Apollodorus' Against Neaera 4.6. Conclusions 5. Between charis and philanthropia: the Heraclidae 5.1. Athens and the Heraclidae: charis or philanthropia? 5.2. Between charis and philanthropia 5.3. Euripidean tragedy and reciprocity 5.4. Lysias and Athenian philanthropia 5.5. Charis and philanthropia in Isocrates' Panegyricus 5.6. Conclusions 6. Fading shades of hybris: the Attic Amazonomachy 6.1. Hybris and the causes of the Attic Amazonomachy 6.2. Hybris: an introduction 6.3. Lysias: the state funeral and the discourse of hybris 6.4. Theseus and the Amazons in Aeschylus' Eumenides 6.5. An allusion to the abduction in a private setting? 6.6. Theseus' abduction of Antiope in the figurative arts 6.7. The abduction of Antiope in mythographers and Atthidographers 6.8. The abduction of Antiope in Isocrates' private rhetoric 6.9. Conclusions 7. Combining hybris and philanthropia: the myth of Adrastus 7.1. Philanthropia and hybris: values in interaction 7.2. Athenian philanthropia, Theban hybris: Lysias' Funeral Oration 7.3. Philanthropia, hybris and advantage in Euripides' Suppliant Women 7.4. The myth of Adrastus in Procles' speech to the Assembly 7.5. The myth of Adrastus in a fictional Assembly 7.6. Questioning Theban hybris in a private context 7.7. Conclusions 8. Conclusions Bibliography Index locorum General index
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