Freedom and Slavery in Classical Greek Historians.
Sorbonne University Press| N° d'inventaire | 25400 |
| Format | 16 x 24 |
| Détails | 512 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2010 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782840506881 |
The civilization of Classical Greece values freedom all the more strongly because it is partly based on slavery and was partly built in opposition to Persia, which was subject to the Great King. This book studies the interaction of freedom and slavery in the narratives of the three historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. This duality runs through their thinking in ways that are systematically analyzed here: asymmetries between the emphasis on freedom and the treatment of the role of slaves, internal developments within the author and according to the period, ideological, political, and literary factors that influence historical discourse. The forms of freedom and slavery involve life in the city and international relations, are collective or individual, and lead in Xenophon to a post-Socratic reflection on their meaning for the inner life.
By combining the analysis of freedom and slavery in specific textual studies, this book opens new perspectives and at the same time sheds light on the historical method of the three historians as well as their intertextual dialogue. It thus enriches our understanding of historical discourse in the transition from the 5th to the 4th century. century before our era.
The civilization of Classical Greece values freedom all the more strongly because it is partly based on slavery and was partly built in opposition to Persia, which was subject to the Great King. This book studies the interaction of freedom and slavery in the narratives of the three historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon. This duality runs through their thinking in ways that are systematically analyzed here: asymmetries between the emphasis on freedom and the treatment of the role of slaves, internal developments within the author and according to the period, ideological, political, and literary factors that influence historical discourse. The forms of freedom and slavery involve life in the city and international relations, are collective or individual, and lead in Xenophon to a post-Socratic reflection on their meaning for the inner life.
By combining the analysis of freedom and slavery in specific textual studies, this book opens new perspectives and at the same time sheds light on the historical method of the three historians as well as their intertextual dialogue. It thus enriches our understanding of historical discourse in the transition from the 5th to the 4th century. century before our era.