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Athens: the city as university

Niall Livingstone
Resource Type:
E-Book
Publication:
Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016
Related Series:
Routledge monographs in classical studies
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Scope and content: "Athens has been synonymous with the life of the intellect, and Athens : A University City tells you just why. It is more than a history of education in terms of curriculum and shows the position of education and ideas in ancient Athens as a whole, providing an understanding of Athenian intellectual culture across the whole social range, and within its socio-political context"--Provided by publisher.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Setting the stage for citizens
  • Introduction: Democratic knowledge
  • Citizens modern and ancient
  • Democracies
  • Intellectual attainment and democratic ideals
  • Myth and Mousike
  • Heroic politics
  • Hesiod's poetics of struggle
  • Solon : accommodating Athens to the muse
  • Part 2. Citizen spaces
  • Knowing where it happens
  • Democratic citizenship : staging and rehearsal
  • What did citizens learn?
  • Learning at home
  • Places of learning
  • The Agora
  • The view beyond the city
  • In and out of the barber's shop
  • Part 3. The citizen performer
  • Writing the city
  • Suspicion of writing in Athens
  • On writers (people who write written speeches, or Sophists)
  • The argument of "on writers"
  • A misdirected attack on writing?
  • The two faces of the writer
  • Stylish spontaneity
  • Conclusion: The city as university.
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Author/Creator:
Livingstone, Niall
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Main Work:
Athens: the city as university [by Livingstone, N.]
Related Series:
Routledge monographs in classical studies
Subjects:
Athens (Greece) — Intellectual life
Education, Higher — Greece — Athens — History — To 1500
Learning and scholarship — Greece — Athens — History — To 1500
Greek literature — History and criticism
Citizenship — Greece — Athens — History — To 1500
Democracy — Greece — Athens — History — To 1500
Political culture — Greece — Athens — History — To 1500
Athens (Greece) — Politics and government
Athens (Greece) — Social life and customs
Greece — History — To 146 B.C.
General Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
Physical Description:
1 online resource.
Call Numbers:
DF275 .L58 2016
ISBNs:
9781317293941 (electronic bk.)
1317293940 (electronic bk.)
9780415212960 [Invalid]
0415212960 [Invalid]
OCLC Numbers:
953604227
Other Control Numbers:
1286142 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp13074761