Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece
Rethinking Revolutions through Ancient Greece by Simon Goldhill is a thought-provoking exploration published by Cambridge University Press on June 24, 2010. This reissue spans 336 pages and is presented in English. The book examines the significant contributions of fifth- and fourth-century Greece to the development of Western civilization, focusing on various fields such as democratic politics, art, philosophy, and historiography.
In this volume, a distinguished group of contributors offers a fresh perspective on the established claims regarding classical Greece’s revolutionary impact. The discussions delve into both modern scholarly arguments and the historical assertions made during the Second Sophistic, raising questions about the validity of these claims and their implications for contemporary understanding. This work is relevant not only to classical scholars but also to anyone interested in the broader history of scholarship and its evolution.
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From the time of the Roman Empire onwards, fifth- and fourth-century Greece have been held to be the period and place in which civilization as the West knows it developed. Classical scholars have sought to justify these claims in detail by describing developments in fields such as democratic politics, art, rationality, historiography, literature, philosophy, medicine and music, in which classical Greece has been held to have made a revolutionary contribution. In this volume a distinguished cast of contributors offers a fresh consideration of these claims, asking both whether they are well based and what is at stake for their proposers and for us in making them. They look both at modern scholarly argument and its basis and at the claims made by the scholars of the Second Sophistic. The volume will be of interest not only to classical scholars but to all who are interested in the history of scholarship.
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