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Justice as an Aspect of the Polis Idea in Solon's Political Poems: A Reading of the Fragments in Light of the Researches of New Classical Archaeology

Justice as an Aspect of the Polis Idea in Solon's Political Poems: A Reading of the Fragments in Light of the Researches of New Classical Archaeology

Almeida, Joseph A.

Hardcover

Series: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava, Book 243

Literary CriticismAncient History GeneralInterior Design

ISBN10: 9004130020
ISBN13: 9789004130029
Publisher: Brill
Published: Apr 11 2003
Pages: 290
Weight: 1.44
Height: 0.96 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.74
Language: English
This book examines the meaning of justice or dike in the political poems of Solon from a new interpretative perspective. The first two chapters argue that neither standard historical nor literary treatments have provided an adequate foundation for understanding Solon's dike. The main defect lies in an inability to connect Solon's concrete political work with his poetic perceptions. The book's central proposal is that the polis idea, from new classical archaeology, provides an objective standard for an interpretation of Solon's dike, which remedies this defect. The third chapter sets forth the polis idea, which becomes the measure for an examination, in the final two chapters, of Solon's view of dike. The book thus exhibits an interdisciplinary approach to Archaic poetry.

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