Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens

Hardback

Main Details

Title Kosmos: Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Paul Cartledge
Edited by Paul Millett
Edited by Sitta von Reden
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:286
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152
Category/GenreWorld history
World history - BCE to c 500 CE
World history - c 500 to C 1500
World history - c 1500 to c 1750
World history - c 1750 to c 1900
World history - from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9780521570817
ClassificationsDewey:938.5
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Illustrations 9 Halftones, unspecified; 4 Line drawings, unspecified

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 2 July 1998
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

'Kosmos' is the word the ancient Greeks used for human social order. It has therefore a special application to the Greeks' peculiar social and political unit of communal life that they called the 'polis'. Of the many hundreds of such units in classical Greece the best documented and the most complex was democratic Athens. The purpose of this collective volume is to re-evaluate the foundations of classical Athens' highly successful experiment in communal social existence. Topics addressed include religion and ritualization, political friendship and enmity, gender and sexuality, sports and litigation, and economic and symbolic exchange. The book aims to make a major contribution, theoretical as well as empirical, towards understanding how the social order of community life may be sustained and enhanced.