• Politeia and the Past in Xenophon and Isocrates

    Author(s):
    Carol Atack (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Ancient Historiography, Greek and Roman Intellectual History
    Subject(s):
    History, Ancient, History, Ancient--Historiography, Greece, Historiography
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    Xenophon, Isocrates, Ancient Greek Philosophy, Ancient history, Ancient Greek historiography, Greek historiography
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/wye9-jc73
    Abstract:
    Both Xenophon and Isocrates use the past to analyse and comment on political problems of the present, and to provide authority for political programmes of the present and for the future, through connecting them to revered past figures and mythologies. For both, idealised versions of historical Greek communities provide a counterpoint to the disappointments and decline of present-day politics and politicians. Figures from the distant past become exemplars for political action in the present, and their achievements, and the political and social arrangements under which those achievements were completed, models for political reform. Xenophon and Isocrates draw on the wider Greek politeia tradition of writing about political and social customs, educational practices, and institutions, seen in both free-standing pamphlets, and sections embedded within longer histo- rical, rhetorical and philosophical works.
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1515/tc-2018-0009
    Publisher:
    Walter de Gruyter GmbH
    Pub. Date:
    2018-9-19
    Journal:
    Trends in Classics
    Volume:
    10
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    171 - 194
    ISSN:
    1866-7473,1866-7481
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    2 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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