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Mirko Canevaro/Andrew Erskine/Benjamin Gray et al. (Eds.), Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 9, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2018
No full textRohde D. Mirko Canevaro/Andrew Erskine/Benjamin Gray et al. (Eds.), Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science, Edinburgh Leventis Studies 9, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press 2018. Historische Zeitschrift. HZ. 2020;310(1):135–136
Per un profilo dell'anonimo autore dell'Athenaion Politeia pseudo-senofontea
Full text linkThis paper examines and discusses a number of relevant passages of the Pseudo-Xenophontic Constitution of the Athenians in order to outline a profile of its author that turns out to be slightly different from the one usually envisaged by scholars. In all likehood this person was an Athenian citizen and a shipowner, who was not so opposed to Athen's seapower as much as he was hostile to Athenian democracy. Especially important is Athenaion Politeia III 12-13 because, when he states that the atimoi in Athens are few, he is tacitly admitting that the democratic government is not guilty of wickedly abusing the political instrument of atimia against oligarchs, and this is as well an argument in favour of a not too late date of composition
Aristide «imperialista» nell’Athenaion Politeia aristotelica
No full textabstract – This paper focuses on the image of Aristides in the Aristotelian Athenaion
Politeia. In § 1 it provides a survey of the passages in which Aristides in mentioned. In § 2
it reconsiders the different traditions that emerge from the passages previously examined.
In § 3 it scrutinises a piece of information supplied by Arist. Ath. Pol. 24, 1, according to
which Aristides advised the Athenian citizens to move from their farms and live in the city,
where they could find plenty of food and hold public or military offices. In the last paragraph
(§ 4), the paper concludes that Aristotle mixed different and sometimes conflicting
traditions on Aristides, but the genuine representation that he intended to provide was the
one that appears in Ath. Pol. 41, 2, where Aristides is negatively depicted as a precursor of
the radical democracy
Arist. Ath. Pol. 9.2 e la regola del giudizio globale sui politika. Considerazioni sul metodo storico aristotelico
No full textIn Ath. Pol. 9, 2 Aristotle criticizes one of the reconstructions that circulated in Athens about the purpose of Solon’s legislative and political project. The passage has complex points of contact with Aristotle’s theoretical reflection, both in its contents and in its methods, and has therefore been the object of much discussion. I argue here that in order effectively to explain the relation between this passage and Aristotle’s political theory we need to take into consideration an important theoretical principle to which the passage refers: the rule that guides good historical assessment of politika, namely the principle according to which historical reasoning aimed at true knowledge, theorein, must assess political phenom- ena globally, within the framework of an overall vision. The purpose of this paper is to show that Ath. Pol. 9, 2 works as a test-case of Aristotle’s historical method only if we take into account this principle, because Aristotle, as shown by the Rhetoric, the Nicomachean Ethics and the Politics, deems it an indispensable tool for understanding and assessing politika
Aristotele, Solone e le leggi democratiche: indagine critica e criteri di selezione
No full textThe aim of this paper is to ascertain what is worthy of mention (axiologon) in Aristotle’s account of Solon of Athens in his Athenaion Politeia (5-13, 1). The section on Solon in the treaty is remarkably useful due to the quantity of the information, the quality of data passed down and the originality of the key to interpreting his reform. However, it is noteworthy that, although Aristotle knew almost all of Solon’s laws, as shown by his composition of a work on his axones, he choose to include only some of the laws in Ath. Pol. Therefore, I will compare the account of Solon’s reforms and laws in the treaty with Plutarch’s Life of Solon, in order to examine the criteria that led to Aristotle’s selection. For this purpose, I will present the laws in a synoptic way, according to the macro-area of Athenian law to which they pertain, namely that concerning private law, moral crimes, offences against the community and family law. I conclude that in the Ath. Pol. Aristotle selected the laws of Solon that pointed to a change or some features of discontinuity with the past in the structure of the constitution, in order to illustrate the ethos of Solon’s politeia
Aristotele, Solone e le leggi democratiche: indagine critica e criteri di selezione
Full text linkThe aim of this paper is to ascertain what is worthy of mention (axiologon) in Aristotle’s account of Solon of Athens in his Athenaion Politeia (5-13, 1). The section on Solon in the treaty is remarkably useful due to the quantity of the information, the quality of data passed down and the originality of the key to interpreting his reform. However, it is noteworthy that, although Aristotle knew almost all of Solon’s laws, as shown by his composition of a work on his axones, he choose to include only some of the laws in Ath. Pol. Therefore, I will compare the account of Solon’s reforms and laws in the treaty with Plutarch’s Life of Solon, in order to examine the criteria that led to Aristotle’s selection. For this purpose, I will present the laws in a synoptic way, according to the macro-area of Athenian law to which they pertain, namely that concerning private law, moral crimes, offences against the community and family law. I conclude that in the Ath. Pol. Aristotle selected the laws of Solon that pointed to a change or some features of discontinuity with the past in the structure of the constitution, in order to illustrate the ethos of Solon’s politeia
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
The documents in the Attic orators laws and decrees in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus
No full textIn this volume, Mirko Canevaro studies the 'state' documents (laws and decrees) preserved in the public speeches of the Demosthenic corpus. These documents purport to be Athenian statutes and, if authentic, provide invaluable information about Athenian history, law, and institutions. Offering a comprehensive account of the presence of the documents in the corpora of the orators and in the manuscript tradition, this volume summarizes previous scholarship and delineates a new methodology for analyzing the document
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