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ISBN: 0691144419 1400832446 Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,
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In ancient Athens, where freedom of speech derived from the power of male citizenship, women's voices were seldom heard in public. Female speech was more often represented in theatrical productions through women characters written and enacted by men. In Spoken Like a Woman, the first book-length study of women's speech in classical drama, Laura McClure explores the discursive practices attributed to women of fifth-century b.c. Greece and to what extent these representations reflected a larger reality. Examining tragedies and comedies by a variety of authors, she illustrates how the dramatic poets exploited speech conventions among both women and men to construct characters and to convey urgent social and political issues.From gossip to seductive persuasion, women's verbal strategies in the theater potentially subverted social and political hierarchy, McClure argues, whether the women characters were overtly or covertly duplicitous, in pursuit of adultery, or imitating male orators. Such characterization helped justify the regulation of women's speech in the democratic polis. The fact that women's verbal strategies were also used to portray male transvestites and manipulators, however, suggests that a greater threat of subversion lay among the spectators' own ranks, among men of uncertain birth and unscrupulous intent, such as demagogues skilled in the art of persuasion. Traditionally viewed as outsiders with ambiguous loyalties, deceitful and tireless in their pursuit of eros, women provided the dramatic poets with a vehicle for illustrating the dangerous consequences of political power placed in the wrong hands.
Greek drama --- Women and literature --- Greek language --- Sex role in literature. --- Speech in literature. --- Gender identity in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Sex differences. --- Spoken Greek. --- Athens (Greece) --- Intellectual life. --- Adonia. --- Areopagus. --- Assembly. --- Bacchylides. --- Baubo. --- Boulē. --- Cimon. --- Cleisthenes. --- Cleomedes. --- Demeter. --- Demosthenes. --- Diodorus Siculus. --- Hesiod. --- Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite. --- Lysias. --- Nicias. --- Nossis. --- Pharmaka. --- Rayor, D. --- Rothwell, K. --- Sappho. --- Sophocles. --- Thelgein. --- Theognis. --- Thesmophoria. --- Verbal genres: defined. --- actors. --- aischrologia. --- arrhēta. --- courtesans. --- curse tablets. --- demagogues. --- dokimasia. --- doxa. --- epitaphios. --- female choruses. --- gossip. --- gynaecocracy. --- invective against women. --- isonomia. --- isēgoria. --- kokuō. --- kosmēsis. --- kurios. --- lamentation. --- law courts. --- obscenity. --- ololugē. --- parrhēsia. --- partheneion. --- persuasion. --- prostitution. --- rhetoric. --- wedding ritual. --- women: adultery of.
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ISBN: 0691242925 Year: 1984 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press,
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This fresh outlook on Socrates' political philosophy in Plato's early dialogues argues that it is both more subtle and less authoritarian than has been supposed. Focusing on the Crito, Richard Kraut shows that Plato explains Socrates' refusal to escape from jail and his acceptance of the death penalty as arising not from a philosophy that requires blind obedience to every legal command but from a highly balanced compromise between the state and the citizen. In addition, Professor Kraut contends that our contemporary notions of civil disobedience and generalization arguments are not present in this dialogue.
Socrates --- Political and social views. --- Analogy. --- Anytus. --- Apology (Plato). --- Argument from analogy. --- Argument from authority. --- Aristotle. --- Athenian Democracy. --- Attempt. --- Authoritarianism. --- Begging the question. --- Callicles. --- Categorical imperative. --- Charmides (dialogue). --- Civil disobedience. --- Clarke's three laws. --- Classical Athens. --- Consideration. --- Critias (dialogue). --- Critias. --- Criticism. --- Crito. --- Damascius. --- Deliberation. --- Democratic liberalism. --- Demosthenes. --- Doctrine of necessity. --- Doctrine. --- Dokimasia. --- Dynamism (metaphysics). --- Egocentrism. --- Epinomis. --- Ethics. --- Eudaimonia. --- Eudemian Ethics. --- Euripides. --- Euthydemus (dialogue). --- Euthyphro (prophet). --- Euthyphro. --- Explanation. --- Good and evil. --- Gorgias. --- Greek mythology. --- Hedonism. --- Hippias (tyrant). --- Hippias Minor. --- Hippias. --- In Defense of Anarchism. --- Isocrates. --- Jury. --- Kantianism. --- Liberalism. --- Meletus. --- Meno. --- Moral development. --- Morality. --- Necessity. --- Nicias. --- Obedience (human behavior). --- Objection (law). --- Parmenides. --- Philo of Byblos. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical Studies. --- Philosophy of law. --- Philosophy. --- Piety. --- Plea. --- Plotinus. --- Political philosophy. --- Politics. --- Popular sovereignty. --- Prosecutor. --- Protagoras (dialogue). --- Protagoras. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Ratification. --- Reason. --- Relativism. --- Republic (Plato). --- Socrates. --- Socratic method. --- Socratic questioning. --- Solipsism. --- Sophist (dialogue). --- Sophist. --- Spinozism. --- Statute. --- Suggestion. --- The Death of Socrates. --- The Open Society and Its Enemies. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory. --- Thought. --- Thrasymachus. --- Trial of Socrates. --- Truism. --- Two Treatises of Government. --- Utilitarianism. --- Virtue. --- Working hypothesis.
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