Agon, Logos, Polis: The Greek Achievement and Its AftermathTen papers, from a conference held at Ohio State University in 1997, reconsider Greek experience and its lessons for later cultures from a variety of perspectives. The contributions reflect in particular the central role of politics and the `Polis', so distinctively and uniquely Greek, in the development of Greek culture. The papers also consider Greek philosophy, drama and the Greek view of the natural and divine world around them and demonstrate the continuing influence of Hellenism by discussing modern adaptations of Greek models. Contributors include Johann Arnason, Cornelius Castoriadis, Vassilis Lambropoulos, Christian Meier, Oswyn Murray, Peter Murphy, Kurt Raaflaub, Louis Ruprecht, Jean-Pierre Vernant and Pierre Vidal-Naquet. |
Contents
Gnosis and Tradition | 15 |
Why the Greeks? | 29 |
The Greeks The Political Revolution in World History | 56 |
Political Thought Civic Responsibility and the Greek | 72 |
Forms of Belief and Rationality in Greece | 118 |
Beasts Humans and Gods The Greek View | 127 |
Aeschylean Anthropogony and Sophoclean Self | 138 |
Autonomy and Axiality Comparative Perspectives | 155 |
Architectonics | 207 |
On the Notion of the Tragedy of Culture | 233 |
Notes on Contributors 256 | |
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