Ancient Athenians resemble modern Americans in their moral discomfort with empire. Athenians had power and used it ruthlessly, but the infliction of suffering did not mesh well with their civic self-image. Embracing the concepts of democracy and freedom, they proudly pitted themselves against tyranny and oppression, but in practice they were capable of being tyrannical. Pity and Power in Ancient Athens argues that the exercise of power in democratic Athens, especially during its brief fifth-century empire, raised troubling ...
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Ancient Athenians resemble modern Americans in their moral discomfort with empire. Athenians had power and used it ruthlessly, but the infliction of suffering did not mesh well with their civic self-image. Embracing the concepts of democracy and freedom, they proudly pitted themselves against tyranny and oppression, but in practice they were capable of being tyrannical. Pity and Power in Ancient Athens argues that the exercise of power in democratic Athens, especially during its brief fifth-century empire, raised troubling questions about the alleviation and infliction of suffering, and pity emerged as a topic in Athenian culture at this time. The ten essays collectively examine the role of pity in the literature, art, and society of classical Athens by analysing evidence from tragedy, philosophy, historiography, epic, oratory, vase painting, sculpture, and medical writings.
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0521845521. Gift inscription from author to Jenifer Neils on ffep in ink. Faint creasing to upper corner of a few pages. Minor chipping to DJ.; Arguing that the exercise of power in democratic Athens, especially during its brief fifth-century empire, raised troubling questions about the alleviation and infliction of suffering, this book examines how pity emerged as a timely topic in Atheninan culture. Ten essays examine the role of pity in the literature, art, and society of classical Athens by analyzing evidence from tragedy, philosophy, historiography, epic, oratory, vase painting, sculpture, and medical writings. Athenians had power and used it ruthlessly, but the infliction of suffering did not mesh well with their civic self-images.; 9.0 X 6.3 X 1.0 inches; 370 pages; Signed by Author.
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VG-(Book always opens naturally to pp.198-199; otherwise, Like New. ) Burgundy cloth, brown & orange & color illus. dust jacket, 356 pp., 27 BW plates. Ten essays explore "the role of pity in the literature, art, and society of Classical Athens by analyzing evidence from tragedy, philosophy, historiography, epic, oratory, vase painting, sculpture, and medical writings." (dj) Essays: The Nature of Pity / Rachel Hall Sternberg--Pity and Politics / David Konstan--The Pitiers and the Pitied in Herodotus and Thucydides / Donald Lateiner--A Generous City: Pity in Athenian Oratory and Tragedy / Angeliki Tzanetou--Athenian Tragedy: An Education in Pity / James F. Johnson and Douglas C. Clapp--Engendering the Tragic Theates: Pity, Power, and Spectacle in Sophocles' Trachinaiae / Thomas M. Falkner--Pity in Classical Athenian Vase Painting / John H. Oakley--The Civic Art of Pity / Aileen Ajootian--A Crying Shame: Pitying the Sick in the Hippocratic Corpus and Greek Tragedy / Jennifer Clarke Kosak--Pity in Plutarch / Christopher Pelling.
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