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War, democracy and culture in classical Athens /

"Athens is famous for its direct democracy and its innovative culture. Not widely known is its contemporaneous military revolution. Athens invented or perfected new forms of combat, strategy, and military organisation and was directly responsible for raising the scale of Greek warfare to a diff...

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Other Authors: Pritchard, David, 1970-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2010]
Subjects:
Politics and war > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
War and society > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Social change > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Democracy > Greece > Athens > History > To 1500.
Athens (Greece) > History, Military.
Athens (Greece) > Politics and government.
Athens (Greece) > History, Military > Sources.
Athens (Greece) > Antiquities.
Greece > History, Military > To 146 B.C.
Greece > Politics and government > To 146 B.C.
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ISBN:9780521190336 (hardback)
0521190339 (hardback)
Table of Contents:
  • The symbiosis between democracy and war : the case of ancient Athens / David M. Pritchard
  • pt. 1. The impact of democracy on war
  • Thucydides on Athens' democratic advantage in the Archidamian War / Josiah Ober
  • Democratizing courage in classical Athens / Ryan K. Balot
  • pt. 2. Military Innovations of the democracy
  • Cavalry, democracy, and military thinking in classical Athens / Iain Spence
  • Light troops in classical Athens / Matthew Trundle
  • pt. 3. The fifth-century drama of war
  • Affirming Athenian action : Euripides' portrayal of military activity and the limits of tragic instruction / Sophie Mills
  • Ridiculing a popular war : old comedy and militarism in classical Athens / David Konstan
  • pt. 4. War in fourth-century speeches
  • War in the law-court : some Athenian discussions / Alastair J.L. Blanshard
  • Athenian militarism and the recourse to war / Peter Hunt
  • pt. 5. Soldiers in privately purchased art
  • Democratic ideology, the events of war, and the iconography of Attic funerary sculpture / Robin Osborne
  • The warrior loutrophoroi of fifth-century Athens / Patricia Hannah
  • "I am Eurymedon" : tensions and ambiguities in Athenian war imagery / Margaret C. Miller
  • pt. 5. Honouring the war dead
  • Commemoration of the war dead in classical Athens : remembering defeat and victory / Polly Low
  • AretÄ“ and the achievements of the war dead : the logic of praise in the Athenian funeral oration / Sumio Yoshitake
  • Epilogue: Does democracy have a violent heart? / John Keane.

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