Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity

489 Pages·2010·7.068 MB·English

by  Ralph M. Rosen, Ineke Sluiter

Valuing Others in Classical Antiquity
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VOLUME323
Valuing Others
in Classical Antiquity
Editedby
Ralph M. Rosen and Ineke Sluiter
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2010
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations ......................................................... ix
Listofcontributors ................................................... xi
ChapterOne.GeneralIntroduction.................................. 1
InekeSluiterandRalphM.Rosen
ChapterTwo.ClassicalGreekUrbanism:ASocialDarwinianView 15
JohnBintliff
ChapterThree.SharedSanctuariesandtheGodsofOthers:On
theMeaningof‘Common’inHerodotus.................... 43
IrenePolinskaya
ChapterFour.Kharis,Kharites,Festivals,andSocialPeaceinthe
ClassicalGreekCity................................................ 71
NickFisher
ChapterFive.CommunalValuesinAncientDiplomacy............ 113
SarahBolmarcich
ChapterSix.Tecmessa’sLegacy:ValuingOutsidersinAthens’
Democracy......................................................... 137
RobertW.Wallace
ChapterSeven.TheInstrumentalValueofOthersand
InstitutionalChange:AnAthenianCaseStudy................... 155
JosiahOber
ChapterEight.VisibilityandSocialEvaluationinAthenian
Litigation........................................................... 179
Evelinevan’tWout
ChapterNine.HelpingandCommunityintheAthenian
Lawcourts .......................................................... 205
MatthewR.Christ
ChapterTen.AreFellowCitizensFriends?AristotleversusCicero
onPhilia,Amicitia,andSocialSolidarity ......................... 233
DavidKonstan
viii contents
ChapterEleven.PricingtheInvaluable:SocratesandtheValueof
Friendship.......................................................... 249
TazukovanBerkel
ChapterTwelve.OnBelonginginPlato’sLysis....................... 279
AlbertJoosse
ChapterThirteen.NotValuingOthers:ReflectionsofSocial
CohesionintheCharactersofTheophrastus...................... 303
IvoVolt
ChapterFourteen.EvaluatingOthersandEvaluatingOneselfin
Epictetus’Discourses ............................................... 323
GerardJ.Boter
ChapterFifteen.HumanConnectionsandPaternalEvocations:
TwoEliteRomanWomenWritersandtheValuingofOthers.... 353
JudithP.Hallett
ChapterSixteen.QuidTibiEgoVideorinEpistulis?Cicero’s
Verecundia.......................................................... 375
CynthiaDamon
ChapterSeventeen.CitizenasEnemyinSallust’sBellumCatilinae 391
AislinnMelchior
ChapterEighteen.ValuingOthersintheGladiatorialBarracks .... 419
KathleenM.Coleman
IndexofGreekterms ................................................. 447
IndexofLatinterms .................................................. 453
Indexlocorum ........................................................ 455
Generalindex......................................................... 469
ABBREVIATIONS
Abbreviationsofancientauthorsandworks,andofmodernpublications,
in most cases follow those found in the Oxford Classical Dictionary,
rdedn.,editedbySimonHornblowerandAnthonySpawforth,Oxford
.