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If a man achieves victory over this body, who in the world can exercise power over him? He who rules himself rules over the whole world.
Oxford University Press. Used - Very Good. 1999. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Small scuff on front jacket panel. Infrequent light pencil marks in margins. Else clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Greece). Oxford University Press ISBN 0198152671 9780198152675 [US]
ISBN10: 0198152671, ISBN13: 9780198152675, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 1999. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Small scuff on front jacket panel. Infrequent light pencil marks in margins. Else clean copy. Very Good. [Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
Oxford University Press, USA 1999 Hard cover Very Good 1999. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Small scuff on front jacket panel. Infrequent light pencil marks in margins. Else clean copy. Very Good. (Subject: Ancient, Greece).
ISBN10: 0198152671, ISBN13: 9780198152675, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover 1999. Hardcover. Cloth, dj. Small scuff on front jacket panel. Infrequent light pencil marks in margins. Else clean copy. Very Good. [Chicago, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 1999]
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ISBN10: 0198152671, ISBN13: 9780198152675, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. It is not the aim of this book to add to the extensive literature on Alcibiades' life and career. Instead the author focuses on the explosive mix of fear and fascination excited by Alcibiades in his contemporaries and in particular in key literary texts: Thucydides, the mysterious pseudo-Andocides 4, the encomium of Isocrates 16, the final scene of Plato's Symposium. The book is about the acute tension between the classical city and the individual ofsuperlative power, status, and ambition. It looks at the way Alcibiades is approximated to archetypes of the individual 'outside' the city: the tyrant, the athletic victor, the ostracism victim, the scapegoat, thebarbarian. Whereas modern discussions of ancient Athens and Athenian civic texts stress collective ideology, this study focuses on the opposing strand in tension with this dominant ideology: the fascination with the powerful individual. The book is thus at once a contribution to the study of civic ideology, and also to that of the individual and of the role of the individual in classical texts - rhetoric, the historiography of Thucydides, the Platonic dialogue. The bookalso considers the development of the post-classical depiction of Alcibiades, concluding with a study of Plutarch's reaction both to this tradition and to the classical texts. The text is about the tension between the ...
ISBN10: 0198152671, ISBN13: 9780198152675, [publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford] Hardcover Hardcover. It is not the aim of this book to add to the extensive literature on Alcibiades' life and career. Instead the author focuses on the explosive mix of fear and fascination excited by Alcibiades in his contemporaries and in particular in key literary texts: Thucydides, the mysterious pseudo-Andocides 4, the encomium of Isocrates 16, the final scene of Plato's Symposium. The book is about the acute tension between the classical city and the individual ofsuperlative power, status, and ambition. It looks at the way Alcibiades is approximated to archetypes of the individual 'outside' the city: the tyrant, the athletic victor, the ostracism victim, the scapegoat, thebarbarian. Whereas modern discussions of ancient Athens and Athenian civic texts stress collective ideology, this study focuses on the opposing strand in tension with this dominant ideology: the fascination with the powerful individual. The book is thus at once a contribution to the study of civic ideology, and also to that of the individual and of the role of the individual in classical texts - rhetoric, the historiography of Thucydides, the Platonic dialogue. The bookalso considers the development of the post-classical depiction of Alcibiades, concluding with a study of Plutarch's reaction both to this tradition and to the classical texts. The text is about the tension between the ...
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