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This is a study of the classical Athenian public sphere. It examines how public opinion was created by impromptu theatrics and by gossip, and how it flowed into and out of the civic institutions. Athenians did not have hookah bars or coffee shops but they did socialize in sympos…
Examines ''informal'' politics, like gossip and political theatrics, and how they related to more ''formal'' politics of assembly and courts.
Revenge was an all important part of the ancient Athenian mentality, intruding on all forms of life. Revenge was of prime importance as a means of survival for the people of early Greece. Through an examination of the texts, a more complex picture of how the Athenian people view…
"The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body of 151 speeches which represents the mature flourishing of the ancient art of public sp…
"Prompted by the abundant historical allusions in Athenian political and diplomatic discourse, Bernd Steinbock analyzes the uses and meanings of the past in fourth-century Athens, using Thebes' role in Athenian memory as a case study. This examination is based upon the premise t…
"In this next offering for the Witness to Ancient History series, Robert Garland writes about the Persian invasion of Greece in the 5th century BC. After introducing the reader to the contextual background of the Greco-Persian Wars, including the famous Battle of Marathon, Garla…