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Showing 1 to 20 of 69 for “"Athenian"”.
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Shame in Athenian Oratory
… approach to the analysis of the role of shame in Athenian oratory, it will be possible to determine how the use of shame could have affected the jurors’ mind. This idea will be argued by the detection of a two-fold feeling of shame: passive and active. Passive shame will be seen in one’s target …
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Papadiamantis’ Athenian short stories: social representation and characterization
… social dimension of his work by focusing on his Athenian short stories. This literary corpus, a significant part of the literature describing the urban environment in the last decade of the nineteenth and the first decade of the twentieth century, offers an insight into Papadiamantis’ views on …
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The Rhetoric of Athenian Public Finance in Demosthenes
Athenian public finance underwent significant reform in the wake of the financial crisis that accompanied the Social War (357–5). Scholarly analysis of these changes, and of Athenian financial decisions in general, tends to pay little attention to the process of mass deliberation which produced …
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Reintroducing women into the ancient Athenian public sphere: an analysis of female depictions on Attic Athenian pottery from late 6th and 5th centuries BCE
Women in Ancient Greece are often slotted into one of two categories: housewives or sex workers. Many have argued that it is common knowledge and well-established that women were secluded in their homes, with very little physical evidence to support their claims. This paper aims to uncover how such …
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Anthropogony, Myth and Gender: Athenian Autochthony as a Case Study
… for understanding Greek mythology. Taking Athenian autochthony as a case study, it argues that, instead of regarding Greek myth as either a narrative system with one universal logic (structuralist reading) or as an ever-changing corpus without a unified concern (post-structuralist reading), …
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Rhetoric and the architecture of empire in the Athenian agora
The various political regimes of ancient Athens established and legitimated their power through civic architecture and public rhetoric in the agora. A study of the parallel developments of architectural and rhetorical form , supported by previously published archaeological evidence and the well …
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Sex and Pottery: Erotic Images on Athenian Cups, 600-300 B.C.
… the significance of the erotic images. Various Athenian cups from the online holdings of the Beazley Archive were investigated, using simple tabulations and Chi-square analysis, for erotic images. Out of 7901 cups only 130 had erotic images. As cups with erotic images represented only a small …
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Epicurus' legacy: succession and continuity in the institutional history of the Athenian Garden
… reality of the Epicurean school’s flagship Athenian community (the “Garden") as an intellectual institution. In particular, it investigates the philosophical and pragmatic considerations that determined the approach Epicurus and his successors adopted to the organisation and management of …
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The Easterner at the Drinking Party: The Role of the Other in the Ancient Greek Symposion
Athenian painted pottery from the late Archaic and early Classical period frequently depicts images of the symposion, a popular ancient Greek drinking banquet which played an important role in ancient Athenian society. Some of these depictions include images of Eastern foreigners alongside Athenian …
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Xenophon on Athens : between democracy and oligarchy
This dissertation explores Xenophon’s view of Athenian political society and governance during the 5th-4th centuries BCE. Xenophon has often been portrayed in scholarship as an uncritical conduit of traditional conservative, aristocratic thought: hostile to democracy and the Athenian demos and in …
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Adapting to Domination: The Athenian reaction to the hegemony of the Macedonian Kings, Philip II and Alexander III, 338-323 B.C.E.
… battle of Chaeronea in 338. Despite this, the Athenians attempted to regain their former status in the Greek world for another fifteen years. The treaty formed from the League of Corinth created a political hiatus that allowed Athens to adapt to a new era of Macedonian rule. The political and …
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Decoding Meaning in Athenian Vase-Painting of the Archaic and Classical Periods: A Study of Expressions of Communication and Targeted Audiences
<p>This study advances our understanding of Athenian vase-paintings of the Archaic and Classical periods by examining scenes of communication from two perspectives: how communication is expressed within depictions of multi-figure scenes and how messages are encoded through the vase to the viewer. I …
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"The Land of the Fine Triremes:" Naval Identity and Polis Imaginary in 5th Century Athens
… and commemoration of the Classical Athenian navy. While the project stresses the various and often contradictory ways in which the Athenians perceived and represented their navy, its larger purpose is to argue that the integration of multiple and various media has the potential to …
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