‘An Army of Lovers’ – The Sacred Band of Thebes
Sunday, March 11th, 2012Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece. (History Today)
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Women and Politics in Democratic Athens
Sunday, March 11th, 2012Susan Cole looks at how, though formally excluded from the political process, Athena’s sisters nevertheless made their mark. (History Today)
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The City and the Democratic Ideal
Sunday, March 11th, 2012‘City’, the word, comes to us from the Latin (civitas), but the city as an entity was an ancient Greek invention under the name of polis. Almost all our political vocabulary, from ‘political’ on, is rooted therefore in the ancient Greek city, and it was within that very special cultural context that democracy, another Greek political invention, was born.
Historically the polis as a new and original political state-form emerged within the Greek world in the course of the eighth century BC. Several factors made its development and spread possible, including a demographic revolution, an extension of settled agriculture, and an increase in the number of landed proprietors. polis designated a politically independent community, possessing a properly political territory, within the confines of which peasant proprietors for the first time ever – and indeed for the last time before the modern era – gained recognition as full citizens.
François Hartog on how urban living has coincided with the advocacy of popular rule from Plato through to Machiavelli, Rousseau and 20th-century sociologists. (History Today)
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Classicism and the American Revolution
Saturday, March 10th, 2012The symbols, slogans, ideas and architecture of the Founding Fathers were Classicism and the American Revolution. (History Today)
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Women and Politics in Democratic Athens
Saturday, March 10th, 2012Susan Cole looks at how, though formally excluded from the political process, Athena’s sisters nevertheless made their mark. (History Today)
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The City and the Democratic Ideal
Saturday, March 10th, 2012François Hartog on how urban living has coincided with the advocacy of popular rulefrom Plato through to Machiavelli, Rousseau and 20th-century sociologists. (History Today)
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‘An Army of Lovers’ – The Sacred Band of Thebes
Saturday, March 10th, 2012Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.
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Will Durant: The Life of Greece
Saturday, February 18th, 2012William James Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975.
Here is volume two, The Life of Greece. It is arguably the best general survey of the era.
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Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection
Sunday, November 13th, 2011Great maps of ancient Empires from University of Texas
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