During the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, several waves of a plague killed an estimated one-third of the civilian Athenian population and one-fourth of its army. Thucydides account of the plague (430-426 BCE) and the subsequent rise of the cult of Asclepius can be examined as perhaps the earliest case study of collective behavior and a social movement. In his account of the plague...

The dialogue between the model Athenian landowner Ischomachus and his wife recounted in Xenophon's Oeconomicus appears to offer a rare glimpse of the inner workings of an -ordinary Athenian household and a rare portrait of an ordinary Athenian wife. Through Ischomachus's report to Socrates of a series of conversations in which he instructed his wife in her proper activities. the dialogue provid...

Two generations before Aristotle wrote his celebrated treatise on what the nature of tragic mimesis (or imitation) is, the comic poet Aristophanes had written two plays about the subject, Thesmophoriazusae and the more celebrated Frogs. The first play has the poet Euripides as its hero, and the second the god Dionysus. This god is the son of Zeus and a mortal woman, and at a festival in his hon...

possess quite different connotations. Pat Easterling examines evidence for the actor's voice, but the data proves more illuminating for the conduct of politics than for the theatre. Simon Goldhill's eloquent introduction sets up the proposition that Athens was, to an exceptional degree, a 'performance culture'. He challenges contemporary performance studies for its failure in not having always ...

Voegelin did not publish an extended volume on Greek tragedy. In his writings, there is a brief account of tragedy in The New Science of Politics, and a more extensive chapter on the subject in The World of the Polis.1 [1] In each case, the bulk of Voegelin�s analysis is concerned with Aeschylus, but in neither case is his analysis comprehensive. His comments in New Science amount to a few page...

In this tutorial, we introduce two rule-based systems for on and offline trace analysis, RULER and LOGSCOPE. RULER is a conditional rule-based system, which has a simple and easily implemented algorithm for effective runtime verification, and into which one can compile a wide range of temporal logics and other specification formalisms used for runtime verification. Specifications can be paramet...

This study aims to assess the claims whether or not direct democracy in ancient Athens can be properly regarded as a liberal had potentials evolve into democratic regime. For this purpose, firstly, brief examination of is provided focusing on basic tenets liberalism; namely individualism, limited conceptualisation state, negative freedom, and rights. Then, principles ideals Athenian are briefly...

That contempt and dishonor are closely related has been shown not only in recent discussions of the subject, but also Aristotle's investigation emotions judiciary. In this paper, I will discuss ways which ancient Greeks—and, particular, polis Athens—institutionalized what Bell calls “apt contempt” (i.e., as a response to actual serious faults character stems from contemnor's concern for values ...

Several distinctive, and initially puzzling features of Nikophon's law on silver coinage (Rhodes/Osborne 25) become clear in light of the Athenian state's attempt to drive down transaction costs in order to maintain Athenian public revenues and private profits in the post-imperial era. I suggest that the law was explicitly intended to even the playing field of trade by ensuring non-citizens acc...

The article revisits Aristophanes’ Daitales fr. 233 which is often taken as (the only) evidence of Homeric glosses being drilled by Athenian youth part their school education in 5th c. BC. author discusses detail the context Aristophanic citation Galen’s work, state text fragment and its modern interpretations. In fact, nothing itself directly suggests that learning was traditional Athens. On c...