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1 online resource (x, 235 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue: Four Stories -- the first: thersites -- the second: diomedes son of tydeus -- the third: thrasymachus -- the fourth: socrates in jail -- Part I introduction -- the invocation of athens -- 1 The Legacy of Free Speech -- 1. government as ogre -- 2 government as "the people" -- 3. persecution and texts -- 2 Democratic Amnesia -- Part II AID212;S -- 3 The Tale of Two Gyges: Shame, Community, and the Public/Private Self -- 1. herodotus' gyges -- 2. protagoras' tale -- 3. shame and guilt -- 4. the gaze, the truth, and the "other" -- 5. shame and the liberal individual -- 6. plato's gyges -- Part III PARRH202;SIA: The Practice of Free Speech in Ancient Athens -- 4 The Practice of Parrhesia -- 5 The Trial of Socrates -- 1. why was socrates executed? -- 2. plato's apology: the unveiling of socrates and the transformation of shame -- Part IV THE LIMITS OF FREE SPEECH -- 6 Truth and Tragedy -- 1. parrh234;sia: inclusion/exclusion -- 2. aristophanes thesmophoriazusae -- 3. euripides' phoenician women -- 7 Thucydides' Assemblies and the Challenge of Free Speech -- 1. free speech and the historical method -- 2. the mytilenean debate -- 3. the invasion of sicily -- 8 Protagoras' Shame and Socrates' Speech -- 1. the dialogic context -- 2. youthful shame -- 3. protagoras' shame -- 4. socrates' speech -- 5. "free" words -- 6. coda -- Conclusion Four Paradoxes -- paradox 1: ancients and moderns -- paradox 2: democracy and free speech -- paradox 3: socratic philosophy and the democratic regime -- paradox 4: shame and amnesia -- References -- Index. |
| Summary |
"This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech that was practiced by the ancient Athenians in their democratic regime. Free speech in the ancient democracy was not a protected right but an expression of the freedom from hierarchy, awe, revenue, and shame. It was thus an essential ingredient of the egalitarianism of that regime. That freedom was challenged by the consequences of the rejection of shame (aidos), which had served as a cohesive force within the polity. |
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Socrates' "shameless" free speech at his trial captures the paradoxical consequences of democracy's theoretical grounding on the unbridled speech in which the Athenians expressed great pride and the polity's dependence on traditions that evoke shame. Through readings of Socrates' trial, Greek tragedy and comedy. Thucydides' History, and Plato's Protagoras, this volume explores the paradoxical connections between free speech, democracy, shame, and Socratic philosophy and Thucydidean history as practices of uncovering."--Jacket. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Freedom of speech -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
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Freedom of speech. |
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Greece -- Athens. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Shame -- Greece -- Athens -- History -- To 1500.
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Shame. |
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Athens (Greece) -- Politics and government.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Saxonhouse, Arlene W. Free speech and democracy in ancient Athens. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521819857 (DLC) 2005008711 (OCoLC)58919680 |
| ISBN |
0511140436 (electronic book) |
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9780511140433 (electronic book) |
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9780511139314 (electronic book) |
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0511139314 (electronic book) |
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9780511616068 (electronic book) |
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0511616066 (electronic book) |
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9780511139680 (electronic book) |
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0511139683 (electronic book) |
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1281836559 |
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9781281836557 |
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9780521819855 (hardback) |
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0521819857 (hardback) |
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