Free speech and democracy in ancient Athens / Arlene W. Saxonhouse.
2006
JC75.F74 S29 2006eb
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Title
Free speech and democracy in ancient Athens / Arlene W. Saxonhouse.
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0511140436 (electronic bk.)
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1281836559
9781281836557
1107145295
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9780511140433 (electronic bk.)
9780511139314 (electronic bk.)
0511139314 (electronic bk.)
9780511616068 (electronic bk.)
0511616066 (electronic bk.)
9780511139680 (electronic bk.)
0511139683 (electronic bk.)
1281836559
9781281836557
1107145295
9781107145290
0511561970
9780511561979
9780521819855 (hbk.)
0521819857 (hbk.)
9780521721585 (paperback)
Imprint
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Language
English
Language Note
English.
Description
1 online resource (x, 235 pages)
Call Number
JC75.F74 S29 2006eb
System Control No.
(OCoLC)67539810
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.
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
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
Note
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
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
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.
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.
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