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Subject(s)

• Athens (Greece)—Intellectual life [Browse]
• Education, Higher—Greece—Athens—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Learning and scholarship—Greece—Athens—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Greek literature—History and criticism [Browse]
• Citizenship—Greece—Athens—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Democracy—Greece—Athens—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Political culture—Greece—Athens—History—To 1500 [Browse]
• Athens (Greece)—Politics and government [Browse]
• Athens (Greece)—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Greece—History—To 146 B.C. [Browse]

Series

Routledge monographs in classical studies [More in this series]

Summary note

"Athens has been synonymous with the life of the intellect, and Athens : A University City tells you just why. It is more than a history of education in terms of curriculum and shows the position of education and ideas in ancient Athens as a whole, providing an understanding of Athenian intellectual culture across the whole social range, and within its socio-political context"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• Part 1. Setting the stage for citizens
• Introduction: Democratic knowledge
• Citizens modern and ancient
• Democracies
• Intellectual attainment and democratic ideals
• Myth and Mousike
• Heroic politics
• Hesiod's poetics of struggle
• Solon : accommodating Athens to the muse
• Part 2. Citizen spaces
• Knowing where it happens
• Democratic citizenship : staging and rehearsal
• What did citizens learn?
• Learning at home
• Places of learning
• The Agora
• The view beyond the city
• In and out of the barber's shop
• Part 3. The citizen performer
• Writing the city
• Suspicion of writing in Athens
• On writers (people who write written speeches, or Sophists)
• The argument of "on writers"
• A misdirected attack on writing?
• The two faces of the writer
• Stylish spontaneity
• Conclusion: The city as university.

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ISBN

• 9780415212960 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))
• 0415212960 ((hardback ; : alkaline paper))

LCCN

2015044494

OCLC

932463246

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