Classical Greece, from Herodotus to Aristotle, 510-336 BCE.
Belin| N° d'inventaire | 25562 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 528 p., numerous color illustrations, paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782701164939 |
“Ancient Worlds” collection, under the direction of Joël Cornette.
The "classical" period of Greek history – the 5th and 4th centuries BC – was the period of Athens' heyday. During the time of Pericles (492-429) and after him, art reached its full flowering, while the founding texts of history (Herodotus and Thucydides), philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) and European theatre (Sophocles and Aristophanes) were developed, in close connection with democracy, the system invented by the Greeks, which gave citizens their full role in the management of the city and artists their role in magnifying it.
More relevant than ever, this political model is the subject of debate, whether it concerns the selection of elected officials, the right to vote, the role of associations and networks, the status of foreigners, the condition of women, or even ways of living together. It continues to fuel our questions, particularly on justice and equality, and to inspire those who, at the dawn of a new millennium, intend to "re-enchant" the democratic ideal.
These two founding centuries are no longer limited today to the duet and the duel between two rival cities: a liberal and "bourgeois" Athens, facing the warlike Sparta of Leonidas. Archaeological discoveries, the testimony of inscriptions and coins allow us to discover the history of other territories long remained in the shadows, such as those of Northern Greece, Marseille, the Danube Delta, Syria, Sicily or Crimea. The plural relations between the Greeks and the other peoples of the Mediterranean basin reveal a richness that long remained unsuspected.
The Greek history of the 5th and 4th centuries is not only that of the Persian Wars that pitted the cities of the Peloponnese against the "barbarians" of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, or the conflicts between Syracuse and Carthage. It is also that of cultural exchanges and transfers. These were intense and particularly fruitful, in the economic, institutional and religious fields, as well as in the multiple forms of artistic creation of which we are the heirs.
This book invites each reader to discover the space-time of this effervescent “classical Greece”: a plural history, largely renewed, enriched by splendid iconography, often unpublished, and original cartography.
“Ancient Worlds” collection, under the direction of Joël Cornette.
The "classical" period of Greek history – the 5th and 4th centuries BC – was the period of Athens' heyday. During the time of Pericles (492-429) and after him, art reached its full flowering, while the founding texts of history (Herodotus and Thucydides), philosophy (Plato and Aristotle) and European theatre (Sophocles and Aristophanes) were developed, in close connection with democracy, the system invented by the Greeks, which gave citizens their full role in the management of the city and artists their role in magnifying it.
More relevant than ever, this political model is the subject of debate, whether it concerns the selection of elected officials, the right to vote, the role of associations and networks, the status of foreigners, the condition of women, or even ways of living together. It continues to fuel our questions, particularly on justice and equality, and to inspire those who, at the dawn of a new millennium, intend to "re-enchant" the democratic ideal.
These two founding centuries are no longer limited today to the duet and the duel between two rival cities: a liberal and "bourgeois" Athens, facing the warlike Sparta of Leonidas. Archaeological discoveries, the testimony of inscriptions and coins allow us to discover the history of other territories long remained in the shadows, such as those of Northern Greece, Marseille, the Danube Delta, Syria, Sicily or Crimea. The plural relations between the Greeks and the other peoples of the Mediterranean basin reveal a richness that long remained unsuspected.
The Greek history of the 5th and 4th centuries is not only that of the Persian Wars that pitted the cities of the Peloponnese against the "barbarians" of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, or the conflicts between Syracuse and Carthage. It is also that of cultural exchanges and transfers. These were intense and particularly fruitful, in the economic, institutional and religious fields, as well as in the multiple forms of artistic creation of which we are the heirs.
This book invites each reader to discover the space-time of this effervescent “classical Greece”: a plural history, largely renewed, enriched by splendid iconography, often unpublished, and original cartography.