Kosmos
Essays in Order, Conflict and Community in Classical Athens
Paul Cartledge editor Paul Millett editor Sitta von Reden editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Published:2nd Jul '98
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A collective volume on the concept of 'kosmos' - the human social order - first published in 1998.
The purpose of this collective 1998 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.'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 1998 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.
ISBN: 9780521570817
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
Weight: 590g
286 pages