Kosmos

Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens

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Paperback | 4 April 2003

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'Kosmos' is the word the ancient Greeks used for human social order. It has therefore a special application to the Greeks' peculiar social and political unit of communal life that they called the 'polis'. Of the many hundreds of such units in classical Greece the best documented and the most complex was democratic Athens. The purpose of this collective 1998 volume is to re-evaluate the foundations of classical Athens' highly successful experiment in communal social existence. Topics addressed include religion and ritualization, political friendship and enmity, gender and sexuality, sports and litigation, and economic and symbolic exchange. The book aims to make a major contribution, theoretical as well as empirical, towards understanding how the social order of community life may be sustained and enhanced.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History European History Earliest Times to Present Day Ancient History to the Year 500 Classical History & Civilisation General & World History

Introduction: defining a
Interpersonal relations on Athenian pots: putting others in their place
Political friendship and the ideology of reciprocity
The politics of affection: emotional attachments in Athenian society
Between koinon and idion: legal and social dimensions of religious associations in ancient Athens
Gymnasia and the democratic values of leisure
The seductions of the gaze: Socrates and his girlfriends
The Athenian political perception of the idiotes
Enmity in fourth-century Athens
The rhetoric of enmity in the Attic orators
The well-ordered polis: topographies of civic space
The threat from the Piraeus
Encounters in the Agora
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