Description
Our ideas about ancient Athens are constructed very largely from the writings of Athenian authors. Relatively rare are our sources for how others - whether Greeks, Asiatics or Romans - saw Athens from the outside. Yet we can see that not only did many across the Mediterranean world resist the political power of Athens in countless wars over several centuries, but that there existed an intriguing variety of anti-Athenian ideologies. This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and casts light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.
This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and casts light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.
About the Author
ANTON POWELL has published extensively on the history of Sparta, Athens - and the literature of the Roman Revolution. He is the author of an introduction to source-criticism in Greek history, Athens and Sparta (3rd edition 2016). He founded the International Sparta Seminar, and with Stephen Hodkinson has edited many of its volumes. He is also the editor of Wiley-Blackwell's Companion to Sparta (2 vols, 2017, forthcoming). His monograph Virgil the Partisan (2008) was awarded the prize of the American Vergilian Society for `the book that makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Vergil'. He has twice been Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature. KATERINA MEIDANI has lectured and published widely, in Greek, English and French, as historian of Archaic and early Classical Greece. She is author of Archaic Greece and War, (2010). She is co-editor, with Kostas Buraselis, of Marathon: The battle and the ancient deme (2010). With Anton Powell, she convened and organised the conference in Greece with which the present volume began.
Book Information
ISBN 9781905125593
Author Katerina Meidani
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Classical Press of Wales
Publisher Classical Press of Wales
Weight(grams) 620g
This volume traces negative thinking about Athens from the late archaic period to Roman times. It challenges the easy modern supposition that Athens was generally seen as the cultural emblem of Greece, and casts light on the thinking of ancient peoples who - nowadays - tend to exist in Athens' shadow.
About the Author
ANTON POWELL has published extensively on the history of Sparta, Athens - and the literature of the Roman Revolution. He is the author of an introduction to source-criticism in Greek history, Athens and Sparta (3rd edition 2016). He founded the International Sparta Seminar, and with Stephen Hodkinson has edited many of its volumes. He is also the editor of Wiley-Blackwell's Companion to Sparta (2 vols, 2017, forthcoming). His monograph Virgil the Partisan (2008) was awarded the prize of the American Vergilian Society for `the book that makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Vergil'. He has twice been Invited Professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris, in 2006 for Greek history and in 2008 for Latin literature. KATERINA MEIDANI has lectured and published widely, in Greek, English and French, as historian of Archaic and early Classical Greece. She is author of Archaic Greece and War, (2010). She is co-editor, with Kostas Buraselis, of Marathon: The battle and the ancient deme (2010). With Anton Powell, she convened and organised the conference in Greece with which the present volume began.
Book Information
ISBN 9781905125593
Author Katerina Meidani
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Classical Press of Wales
Publisher Classical Press of Wales
Weight(grams) 620g
