Tragedy Offstage

Suffering and Sympathy in Ancient Athens

Автор: Rachel Hall Sternberg

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Издател: University of Texas Press

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Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classi...

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Автор

Rachel Hall Sternberg

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2006

страници

250

EAN

9780292722385

ISBN

0292722389

Enbook ID

04873032

Издател

University of Texas Press

Теглоt

481

Размери

152 x 229 x 19

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Humane ideals were central to the image Athenians had of themselves and their city during the classical period. Tragic plays, which formed a part of civic education, often promoted pity and compassion. But it is less clear to what extent Athenians embraced such ideals in daily life. How were they expected to respond, emotionally and pragmatically, to the suffering of other people? Under what circumstances? At what risk to themselves? In this book, Rachel Hall Sternberg draws on evidence from Greek oratory and historiography of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE to study the moral universe of the ancient Athenians: how citizens may have treated one another in times of adversity, when and how they were expected to help. She develops case studies in five spheres of everyday life: home nursing, the ransom of captives, intervention in street crimes, the long-distance transport of sick and wounded soldiers, and slave torture. Her close reading of selected narratives suggests that Athenians embraced high standards for helping behaviouroat least toward relatives, friends, and some fellow citizens. Meanwhile, a subtle discourse of moral obligation strengthened the bonds that held Athenian society together, encouraging individuals to bring their personal behaviour into line with the ideals of the city-state.

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