The Ideology of Democratic Athens : Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past /: Institutions, Orators and the Mythical Past. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Matteo Barbato.
• Authors: Barbato, Matteo
• Contents: 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 philanthrōpia: the Heraclidae: 5.1. Athens and the Heraclidae: charis or philanthrōpia?; 5.2. Between charis and philanthrōpia; 5.3. Euripidean tragedy and reciprocity; 5.4. Lysias and Athenian philanthrōpia; 5.5. Charis and philanthrōpia 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 philanthrōpia: the myth of Adrastus: 7.1. Philanthrōpia and hybris: values in interaction; 7.2. Athenian philanthrōpia, Theban hybris: Lysias' Funeral Oration; 7.3. Philanthrōpia, 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. PrefaceList of tablesList of illustrationsAbbreviations 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 philanthrōpia: the Heraclidae 5.1. Athens and the Heraclidae: charis or philanthrōpia? 5.2. Between charis and philanthrōpia 5.3. Euripidean tragedy and reciprocity 5.4. Lysias and Athenian philanthrōpia 5.5. Charis and philanthrōpia 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 philanthrōpia: the myth of Adrastus 7.1. Philanthrōpia and hybris: values in interaction 7.2. Athenian philanthrōpia, Theban hybris: Lysias' Funeral Oration 7.3. Philanthrōpia, 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 BibliographyIndex locorumGeneral index.
• Publisher Details: United Kingdom : Edinburgh University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (264 pages)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781474466455
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