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"Complementing Who Saved the Parthenon? this companion volume sets aside more recent narratives surrounding the Athenian Acropolis, supposedly 'the very symbol of democracy itself', instead asking if we can truly access an ancient past imputed with modern meaning. And, if so, how? In this book William St Clair presents a reconstructed understanding of the Parthenon from within the classical Athenian worldview. He explores its role and meaning by weaving together a range of textual and visual sources into two innovative oratorical experiments - a speech in the style of Thucydides and a first-century CE rhetorical exercise - which are used to develop a narrative analysis of the temple structure, revealing a strange story of indigeneity, origins, and empire. The Classical Parthenon offers new answers to old questions, such as the riddle of the Parthenon frieze, and provides a framing device for the wider relationship between visual artefacts, built heritage, and layers of accumulated cultural rhetoric. This groundbreaking and pertinent work will appeal across the disciplines to readers interested in the classics, art history, and the nature of history, while also speaking to a general audience that is interrogating the role of monuments in contemporary society."--

Parthenon (Athens, Greece) in literature. --- Athens (Greece) --- Antiquities.

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Em comemoração dos 2400 anos da fundação da Academia de Platão, o presente volume reúne dez contributos sobre a figura do fundador da Academia, sua escola e obra, bem como sobre a influência por ele exercida em autores posteriores (da Antiguidade aos nossos dias) e receção desse legado ao longo da história. Em termos de temáticas abordadas, os primeiros cinco capítulos incidem na análise de conteúdos diversos trata‑ dos nos diálogos platónicos. Começa‑se por considerar a importância do Fedro na conceção filosófica de um 'lu‑ gar supraceleste'. Seguem‑se duas reflexões sobre a paideia platónica, uma centrada n' O Político, outra na análise das práticas desportivas n' A República e n' As Leis. São também perspectivadas as implicações (dramáticas/filosóficas) da origem multicultural das personagens n' As Leis, bem como a perceção do banquete como modelo de comunidade sobre a qual se constitui a comunidade filosófica. Os cinco capítulos restantes concentram a sua atenção na presença em autores posteriores (do neoplatonismo à literatura contemporânea) do filósofo, da sua obra e da Academia. By celebrating the 2400th anniversary of the founding of Plato's Academy, this book gathers ten contributions concerning the founder of the Academy, his school and work, as well as the influence Plato exerted on later authors (from antiquity to the present), and the reception of his legacy throughout history.The themes explored in the five initial chapters focus on the analysis of various topics treated in individual Pla‑ tonic dialogues. To begin, the Phaedrus is considered for its significance regarding the philosophical conception of a "supra‑heavenly place". The next two chapters reflect upon Platonic paideia, first on the pedagogical princi‑ ples of The Statesman, and next on the analysis of sports activities in The Republic and in The Laws. The dramatic and philosophical implications arising out of the multicultural origins of the characters in The Laws are brought into perspective alongside an insight drawn from the banquet, considered a model on which a philosophic com‑ munity can be constituted. The five remaining chapters have a general focus on Plato's presence in later authors (from Neoplatonism to contemporary literature), as well the influence of the Academy.

Civilization, Modern --- Greek influences. --- Athens (Greece) --- Intellectual life.

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Emblématique et singulière, et si l’Athènes contemporaine était simplement exemplaire. Certes, avec l’Acropole et le Parthénon, le soleil et la mer, la capitale de la Grèce symbolise la ville de toujours et l’attirance irrésistible pour la Méditerranée. Mais cette région urbaine de 4 millions d’habitants est aussi une ville nouvelle : refondée au XIXe siècle en même temps que l’État national, c’est à la mesure du vieux continent une Brasilia européenne. En cela, elle représente tout ce que l’urbanisation actuelle porte : le mythe et le gigantisme, le patrimoine et la modernité, le local et le mondial. C’est le sens de ce nouveau miracle athénien.

Cities and towns --- Urban renewal --- Villes --- Rénovation urbaine --- Growth --- Croissance --- Grèce --- Athens (Greece) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions --- Conditions économiques --- Conditions sociales --- Economics --- Planning & Development --- urbanisation --- démocratie --- économie --- Grèce

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Un des arguments élaborés par les adversaires de la dèmokratia, le régime politique qui se met en place à Athènes au cours du Ve siècle avant notre ère, est que le peuple, bruyant et irréfléchi, serait incapable de délibérer. Aussi les décisions qu’il prend, tant à l’Assemblée qu’au sein des tribunaux populaires, lui seraient-elles toujours dictées par d’habiles démagogues, « meneurs du peuple ». Sur la colline de la Pnyx où se tiennent les séances de l’Assemblée ou sur les bancs des tribunaux, les citoyens athéniens sont accusés de se comporter comme au théâtre, en simples spectateurs de leur vie politique. Comment comprendre ce topos de la démocratie vue comme un spectacle ? Dans quel contexte historique s’est-il formé ? Que nous apprend-il des pratiques délibératives des Athéniens ? Le jugement de valeur qu’il implique est-il fondé ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles ce livre tente de répondre, amenant à revenir sur une conception exclusivement dialogique de la délibération. En effet, si aucun moment n’est explicitement dédié au dialogue pendant l’Assemblée et les séances des tribunaux, les échanges permanents entre les participants constituent une délibération informelle qui, avant même le vote à main levée, rend effective la souveraineté populaire. Ainsi, cette enquête n’entend pas concerner seulement les spécialistes du monde grec mais tous ceux qui s’intéressent aux questions de la délibération et de la participation, à la démocratie.

Democracy --- Political participation --- Theater and society --- Démocratie --- Participation politique --- Théâtre et société --- History --- Histoire --- Athens (Greece) --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Democratie --- Theatre et politique --- Democracy. --- Political participation. --- Political science. --- Theater and society. --- Classical Greece --- Theater and politics --- To 1500. --- Greece --- Politics and government. --- Theater and politics. --- Démocratie --- Théâtre et société --- Athènes (Grèce) --- Classics --- Theater --- Athènes --- démocratie --- théâtre --- assemblée --- pouvoir --- gouvernement --- citoyen --- agora --- tragédie --- spectacle --- dème --- tribunal --- Pnyx --- dèmos --- rhétorique

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This book offers the first attempt at understanding interpersonal violence in ancient Athens. While the archaic desire for revenge persisted into the classical period, it was channeled by the civil discourse of the democracy. Forensic speeches, curse tablets, and comedy display a remarkable openness regarding the definition of violence. But in daily life, Athenians had to draw the line between acceptable and unacceptable behavior. They did so by enacting a discourse on violence in the performance of these genres, during which complex negotiations about the legitimacy of violence took place. Performances such as the staging of trials and comedies ritually defined the meaning of violence and its appropriate application. Speeches and curse tablets not only spoke about violence, but also exacted it in a mediated form, deriving its legitimate use from a democratic principle, the communal decision of the human jurors in the first case and the underworld gods in the second. Since discourse and reality were intertwined and the discourse was ritualized, actual violence might also have been partly ritualized. By still respecting the on-going desire to harm one’s enemy, this partial ritualization of violence helped restrain violence and thus contributed to Athens’ relative stability.

Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government. --- Blessing and cursing -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500. --- Forensic orations -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500. --- Greek drama (Comedy) -- Themes, motives. --- Theater -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500. --- Theater - Greece - History - To 500. --- Violence - Greece - Athens - History. --- Violence -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500. --- Violence in the theater. --- Theater --- Violence in the theater --- Violence --- Languages & Literatures --- Greek & Latin Languages & Literatures --- History --- History. --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Stage combat --- Conflict. --- Performance. --- Revenge. --- Ritual. --- Violence.