The nature of things -- The known world -- The practice of nomos -- Narrating inquiry -- Freedom and earthly flourishing -- Conclusion. "Can human beings flourish on Earth without destroying the very earthly basis of such flourishing? Herodotus in the Anthropocene develops a vi…
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Ethnicity and identity in Herodotus
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Introduction / Thomas Figueira -- Herodotus' Hermēneus and the translation of culture in the histories / Steven Brandwood -- Language as a marker of ethnicity in Herodotus and contemporaries / Thomas Figueira -- Protocols of ethnic specification in Herodotus / Brian Hill -- Emot…
We often talk loosely of the "tyranny of the majority" as a threat to the workings of democracy. But, in ancient Greece, the analogy of demos and tyrant was no mere metaphor, nor a simple reflection of elite prejudice. Instead, it highlighted an important structural feature of A…