[PDF] Solon The Athenian The Poetic Fragments eBook

Author : Maria Noussia Fantuzzi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 41,94 MB
Release : 2010-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004174788

GET BOOK

This book illuminates the authoritative voice of Solon of Athens by an integrated literary, historical, and philological approach and the use of a range of hermeneutic frameworks, from literary theory to oral poetics.

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 50,5 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9004414525

GET BOOK

In The Reception of Greek Lyric Poetry in the Ancient World: Transmission, Canonization and Paratext, twenty-one international scholars discuss the afterlife of early Greek lyric poetry (iambic, elegiac, and melic) from the 5th century BCE to the 12th century CE.

Author : Mauro Bonazzi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9004398996

GET BOOK

Thinking, Knowing, Acting: Epistemology and Ethics in Plato and Ancient Platonism aims to offer a fresh perspective on the correlation between epistemology and ethics in Plato and the Platonic tradition from Aristotle to Plotinus, by investigating the social, juridical and theoretical premises of their philosophy.

Author : Ivan M. Linforth
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781528561075

GET BOOK

Excerpt from Solon the Athenian The present work falls into two distinct parts, a biography of Solon and an edition of the fragments of his poems. 'the biographical essay should not be regarded as an introduction to the text of the poems and the commentary upon them. Since our knowledge of Solon's life is not extensive and since the fragments of his poems are few, it is possible to include within one small book two things which in other cases would offer material for two separate books. This is in one sense a happy circumstance, because the reader can have before him in brief space all that can be brought together about Solon. The biographical essay presents the results of a critical study of all the evidence available on the life of Solon. A sceptical attitude has been adopted alike toward ancient legend and modern hypothesis. If the attitude seems oversceptical, this is not much to be regretted it is better in such a business to tell nothing but the truth than to risk falsehood through fear of not telling the whole truth. But whatever has been rejected has received due consideration in footnotes or appendices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Josine Blok
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2017-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9047408896

GET BOOK

This volume offers a range of innovative approaches to Solon of Athens, legendary law-giver, statesman, and poet of the early sixth century B.C. In the first part, Solon’s poetry is reconsidered against the background of oral poetics and other early Greek poetry. The connection between Solon’s alleged roles as poet and as politician is fundamentally questioned. Part two offers a reassessment of Solon’s laws based on a revision of the textual tradition and recent views on early Greek lawgiving. In part three, fresh scrutiny of the archeological and written evidence of archaic Greece results in new perspectives on the agricultural crisis and Solon’s role in the social and political developments of sixth-century Athens. Originally published in hardcover

Author : John David Lewis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1472521145

GET BOOK

In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its people, depends upon their acceptance of justice and moderation as orderly norms of life, and leads to the rejection of tyranny and slavery in favour of freedom. But Solon's naturalistic views are limited; in his own life each person is subject to the arbitrary foibles of moira, the inscrutable fate that governs human life, and that brings us to an unknowable but inevitable death. Solon represents both the new rational, scientific spirit that was sweeping the Aegean - and a return to the fatalism that permeated Greek intellectual life. This first paperback edition contains a new appendix of translations of the fragments of Solon by the author.

Author : Plutarch
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 23,18 MB
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781482322859

GET BOOK

Plutarch's classic biography of the legendary law giver. Translated by John Dryden.