Studies in Greek History and Thought

by Brunt, P. A.

• ISBN13: 9780198152422
• ISBN10: 0198152426
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-01-08
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

This is a collection of P.A. Brunt's writings on Greek history and thought--some previously published in journals and others unpublished until now. Subjects covered include Greek political history of the fifth century B.C. and ancient historiography--including an introduction to Thucydides designed for the more general reader, to which the author has now annexed a new study of Thucydides' funeral speech. Four essays concern the relationship between Greek philosophical thinking and social and political conditions, and of these, three, which constitute about a third of the volume, are new. Two examine the extent to which Plato and his pupils sought, or were able, to make any impact on the contemporary world, and the practicality of the model city in Plato's Laws ; the third discusses Aristotle's theory of slavery in relation to the actual Greek institution and to other attempts to justify slavery as well as in the context of Aristotle's own ethical doctrines.

Table of Contents

1. THE MEGARIAN DECREE (1951)	1	(16)
Postcript (1991)	13	(4)
2. THUCYDIDES AND ALCIBIADES (1952)	17	(30)
3. THE HELLENIC LEAGUE AGAINST PERSIA (1953)	47	(37)
Addenda A. The Hellenic League and Gelon (1953)	75	(5)
B. Thessalian Medism (1991)	80	(4)
4. SPARTAN POLICY AND STRATAGEGY IN THE ARCHIDAMIAN WAR (1965)	84	(28)
5. ATHENIAN SETTLEMENTS ABROAD IN THE FIFTH CENTURY BC (1966)	112	(25)
Appendix. Cleruchies in Chalcis and Eretria	132	(2)
Postscript (1991)	134	(3)
6. INTRODUCTION TO THUCYDIDES (1963)	137	(44)
Postscript. Thucydides' Funeral Speech (1991)	159	(22)
7. CICERO AND HISTORIOGRAPHY (1980)	181	(29)
8. ASPECTS OF THE SOCIAL THOUGHT OF DIO CHRYSOSTOM AND OF THE STOICS (1973)	210	(35)
Appendix. Panaetius and Cicero, de officiis 1. 150f. (1973)	234	(9)
Postscript (1991)	243	(2)
9. THE MODEL CITY OF PLATO'S LAWS (1991)	245	(37)
Appendixes A. The Cretan Model	269	(3)
B. Magistracies at Magnesia	272	(3)
C. Plato and Comparative Law	275	(1)
D. Banausic Occupations and Civic Rights	276	(2)
E. Land Allotments at Magnesia	278	(1)
F. Distribution of Produce at Magnesia	279	(3)
10. PLATO'S ACADEMY AND POLITICS (1991)	282	(61)
Appendixes A. Demochares against the Philosophers	332	(2)
B. Aristotle and the Macedonian People and Monarchy	334	(3)
C. The Date of Plato's First Visit to Dionysius II	337	(2)
D. `Plato's' Eighth Letter	339	(2)
E. A Supposed Anachronism in the Seventh Letter	341	(2)
11. ARISTOTLE AND SLAVERY (1991)	343	(46)
12. REVIEWS	389	(16)
E. A. Havelock
The Liberal Temper in Greek Politics (1954)	389	(5)
H. -P. Stahl
Thukydides: Die Stellung des Menschen im geschichtlichen Prozess (1967)	394	(4)
K. von Fritz
Die griechische Geschichtsschreibung, I (1969)	398	(7)
Index	405