When Worlds Elide Classics, Politics, Culture

by Bassi, Karen; Euben, Peter J.; Antonaccio, Carla; Aso, Noriko; Brendese, P J.; Burian, Peter; Clay, Diskin; Dougherty, Carol; Euben, J Peter; Euben, Roxanne L.; Holmes, Brooke; Lape, Susan; Most, Glenn W.; Porter, James I.; Seth, Vanita; Wohl, Victoria; Z

• ISBN13: 9780739122754
• ISBN10: 0739122754
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-25
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

When Worlds Elide responds to the various incarnations of _the Greek_ legacy that continues to mark our politics, our society, and our education. It offers both an elaboration of these incarnations and a critique of how they are understood and used politically, culturally, theoretically, and pedagogically.

Author Biography

Karen Bassi is professor of classics and literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. J. Peter Euben is research professor of political science and classical studies and Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow in Ethics at Duke University.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Classics
Origins, Culture, and Identity in Classical Antiquity	p. 3
Greece of the East: Philhellenism in Imperial Japan	p. 19
Philhellenism, Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism	p. 43
The Materiality of Classical Studies	p. 61
Politics
Making Prometheus Speak: Dialogue, Torture, and the Power of Secrets in Prometheus Bound	p. 77
For Love of the Impossible: Antigone, Memory, and the Politics of Possibility	p. 111
Athens' Tale of Two Cities: Themistocles, Theseus, and the Construction of "Place" in Fifth-Century Athens	p. 137
Thucydides in Baghdad	p. 161
Before Race: Theorizing Athenian Citizen Identity	p. 185
Comedy, the Ordinary Citizen, and the Salvation of the City	p. 229
Culture
Gender and the City: Antigone from Hegel to Butler and Back	p. 255
The Comparative Politics of Travel: Theôria, Talab al-'Ilm and the Search for Knowledge	p. 301
Socrates, Palamedes, and the Trials of Philosophy	p. 331
Body, Soul, and Medical Analogy in Plato	p. 345
"Men completely wild in appearance and way of life: Fauns, Satyrs, Androgynes, Ichtyophages, Hippopodes, Sciopodes, Himantipodes, [and] Cyclopes"	p. 387
Suppliant Women and the Democratic State: White Men Saving Brown Women from Brown Men	p. 409
Index	p. 437
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