How does a discourse of valuing others help to make a group a group? The fifth in a series exploring ancient values, this book investigates what value terms and evaluative concepts were used in Greece and Rome to articulate the idea that people belong together, as a family, a group, a polis, a community, or just as fellow human beings.
Human communities thrive on prosocial behavior. In eighteen chapters, ranging from Greek tragedy to the Roman gladiators and from house architecture to the concept of friendship, this book demonstrates how such behavior is anchored and promoted by culturally specific expressions of evaluative discourse.
Valuing others in classical antiquity should be of interest to linguists, literary scholars, historians, and philosophers alike.
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Chapter One General Introduction |
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Chapter Two Classical Greek Urbanism: A Social Darwinian View |
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Chapter Three Shared Sanctuaries and the Gods of Others: On the Meaning of `Common' in Herodotus 8.144 |
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Chapter Four Kharis, Kharites, Festivals, and Social Peace in the Classical Greek City |
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Chapter Five Communal Values in Ancient Diplomacy |
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Chapter Six Tecmessa's Legacy: Valuing Outsiders in Athens' Democracy |
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Chapter Seven The Instrumental Value of Others and Institutional Change: An Athenian Case Study |
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Chapter Eight Visibility and Social Evaluation in Athenian Litigation |
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Chapter Nine Helping and Community in the Athenian Lawcourts |
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Chapter Ten Are Fellow Citizens Friends? Aristotle versus Cicero on Philia, Amicitia, and Social Solidarity |
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Chapter Eleven Pricing the Invaluable: Socrates and the Value of Friendship |
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Chapter Twelve On Belonging in Plato's Lysis |
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Chapter Thirteen Not Valuing Others: Reflections of Social Cohesion in the Characters of Theophrastus |
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Chapter Fourteen Evaluating Others and Evaluating Oneself in Epictetus' Discourses |
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Chapter Fifteen Human Connections and Paternal Evocations: Two Elite Roman Women Writers and the Valuing of Others |
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Chapter Sixteen Quid Tibi Ego Videor in Epistulis? Cicero's Verecundia |
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Chapter Seventeen Citizen as Enemy in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae |
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Chapter Eighteen Valuing Others in the Gladiatorial Barracks |
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| Index of Greek terms |
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| Index of Latin terms |
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| Index locorum |
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Ralph M. Rosen, Ph.D. (1983) in Classical Philology, Harvard University, is the Rose Family Endowed Term Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His most recent book is Making Mockery. The Poetics of Ancient Satire (Oxford 2007).
Ineke Sluiter, Ph.D. (1990) in Classics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is Professor of Greek at Leiden University. Her most recent book is (with Rita Copeland) Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric. Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 350-1475 (Oxford 2009).
Contributors: Tazuko van Berkel, John Bintliff, Sarah Bolmarcich, Gerard J. Boter, Matthew R. Christ, Kathleen M. Coleman, Cynthia Damon, Nick Fisher, Judith P. Hallett, Albert Joosse, David Konstan, Aislinn Melchior, Josiah Ober, Irene Polinskaya, Ivo Volt, Robert W. Wallace, Eveline van 't Wout
