Justice As an Aspect of the Polis Idea in Solon's Political Poems : A Reading of the Fragments in Light of the Researches of New Classical Archaeology.

By: Almeida, J. AContributor(s): Almeida, Joseph AMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Mnemosyne, Supplements SerPublisher: Leiden : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: Ã2003Description: 1 online resource (307 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9789047402138Subject(s): Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government | Excavations (Archaeology) -- Greece -- Athens | Justice in literature | Political poetry, Greek -- History and criticism | Politics and literature -- Greece -- Athens | Solon, -- ca. 630-ca. 560 B.C. -- Poetic worksGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Justice As an Aspect of the Polis Idea in Solon's Political Poems : A Reading of the Fragments in Light of the Researches of New Classical ArchaeologyDDC classification: 881/.01 LOC classification: PA4412.S8 Z53 2003ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I Solon: Historical Sources and Scholarship: What We Do and Do Not Know -- Preliminaries -- Section 1: Solon in the Athenaion Politeia and Plutarch's Life of Solon -- Section 2: The Contours of Modern Scholarship on Solon -- Chronology -- Hectemorage: Land, Society, and Economy -- Popular Citizenship -- Summation -- Chapter II Literary Criticism of Solon's Political Poems after Jaeger -- Preliminaries -- Section 1: Werner Jaeger on the "Elegy on the Polis:" A Natural Law of Justice -- Section 2: Recent Criticism of the "Elegy on the Polis" Justice Demythologized: Harmony and Legislation -- Section 3: Dike in the "Elegy on the Polis" and the "Elegy to the Muses -- Summation: New Directions -- Chapter III The Polis Idea in the Work of the New Classical Archaeologists -- Preliminaries: The New Classical Archaeology and the Study of Solon -- Section 1: Political Tendencies -- Section 2: Athenian Particularities -- Summation: The Polis Idea -- Chapter IV The Lexicography and Internal Poetics of Dike -- Preliminaries -- Section 1: Lexicography of Dike -- Section 2: The Framework of Dike in Solon's Political Poems -- Section 3: The Usages of Dike within the Framework -- Chapter V Solon's Understanding of Dike in Light of the Polis Idea -- Preliminaries: Solon and the Polis Idea -- Section 1: The Foundational Meaning of Dike: Fragment 4 and The Polis Idea as the 'August Foundations of Dike' -- Section 2: Theory into Practice: Fragment 36 and the Specific Uses of Dike -- Summation -- Concluding Reflections -- Appendices -- Appendix I: The Atthidographers and the Preservation of the Axones -- Appendix II: Regionalist Theories of Conflict in Archaic Greece -- Appendix III: Hansen on Solon in The Orators and the Minimum Aristotelian View of Solon's Democratic Reforms.
Appendix IV: Particulars in The Discussion of Solon's Chronology -- Sources -- Hammond's Calculation: Archonship (594) and Constitutional Commission (592) -- Miller on Chronological Evidence Independent of the Archon List -- Appendix V: (SSuavlw(B ἐ(Ssì(B (Snύvfl(B -- Appendix VI: The Hoplite and the Polis: Brief Miscellanea -- Challenge to the Significance of Hoplite Reform in the Rise of the Polis -- Law Givers and the Deros Inscription: the Polis Idea before the Hoplite -- Bibliography -- Index -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE.
Summary: This text seeks to examine the meaning of justice or "dike" in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The author's central proposal is that the polis idea, from new classical archaeology, provides an objective standard for an interpretation of Solon's "dike".
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter I Solon: Historical Sources and Scholarship: What We Do and Do Not Know -- Preliminaries -- Section 1: Solon in the Athenaion Politeia and Plutarch's Life of Solon -- Section 2: The Contours of Modern Scholarship on Solon -- Chronology -- Hectemorage: Land, Society, and Economy -- Popular Citizenship -- Summation -- Chapter II Literary Criticism of Solon's Political Poems after Jaeger -- Preliminaries -- Section 1: Werner Jaeger on the "Elegy on the Polis:" A Natural Law of Justice -- Section 2: Recent Criticism of the "Elegy on the Polis" Justice Demythologized: Harmony and Legislation -- Section 3: Dike in the "Elegy on the Polis" and the "Elegy to the Muses -- Summation: New Directions -- Chapter III The Polis Idea in the Work of the New Classical Archaeologists -- Preliminaries: The New Classical Archaeology and the Study of Solon -- Section 1: Political Tendencies -- Section 2: Athenian Particularities -- Summation: The Polis Idea -- Chapter IV The Lexicography and Internal Poetics of Dike -- Preliminaries -- Section 1: Lexicography of Dike -- Section 2: The Framework of Dike in Solon's Political Poems -- Section 3: The Usages of Dike within the Framework -- Chapter V Solon's Understanding of Dike in Light of the Polis Idea -- Preliminaries: Solon and the Polis Idea -- Section 1: The Foundational Meaning of Dike: Fragment 4 and The Polis Idea as the 'August Foundations of Dike' -- Section 2: Theory into Practice: Fragment 36 and the Specific Uses of Dike -- Summation -- Concluding Reflections -- Appendices -- Appendix I: The Atthidographers and the Preservation of the Axones -- Appendix II: Regionalist Theories of Conflict in Archaic Greece -- Appendix III: Hansen on Solon in The Orators and the Minimum Aristotelian View of Solon's Democratic Reforms.

Appendix IV: Particulars in The Discussion of Solon's Chronology -- Sources -- Hammond's Calculation: Archonship (594) and Constitutional Commission (592) -- Miller on Chronological Evidence Independent of the Archon List -- Appendix V: (SSuavlw(B ἐ(Ssì(B (Snύvfl(B -- Appendix VI: The Hoplite and the Polis: Brief Miscellanea -- Challenge to the Significance of Hoplite Reform in the Rise of the Polis -- Law Givers and the Deros Inscription: the Polis Idea before the Hoplite -- Bibliography -- Index -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE.

This text seeks to examine the meaning of justice or "dike" in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The author's central proposal is that the polis idea, from new classical archaeology, provides an objective standard for an interpretation of Solon's "dike".

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