Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher

S. D. Lambert

Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Classical Press of Wales
Country
United Kingdom
Published
15 October 2011
Pages
350
ISBN
9781905125517

Sociable Man: Essays on Ancient Greek Social Behaviour in Honour of Nick Fisher

S. D. Lambert

Sociable Man , which celebrates the work of Nick Fisher, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at Cardiff University, contains essays by leading classicists, ancient historians and archaeologists on the theme of ancient Greek social behaviour. Fifteen original papers reflect the diversity and the unities in the honorand’s interests: politics and law (Hans van Wees on Solon’s law of hybris, John K. Davies on the biography of a fourth-century Athenian politician); social values, including honour, dishonour and hybris (Stephen Lambert on honorific inscriptions, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones on domestic violence, Louis Rawlings on a dog named Hybris, James Whitley on victory dedications, Douglas Cairns on ransom and revenge in Homer); social relations in the Athenian navy (Sam Potts); gender and power (Janett Morgan on gendering of domestic space, Sian Lewis on women and tyranny, Ruth Westgate on animal imagery in mosaics); citizen identity, Athenian (Robin Osborne on the influence of Attic local environments on citizen formation) and Arcadian (James Roy on the Arcadian reputation for backwardness); and, sexuality (David Konstan on Alciphron and the invention of pornography, Emma Stafford on masturbation). The papers will be essential reading for researchers and students of ancient Greek literature, history and archaeology. This book also includes tributes by Paul Cartledge and P. J. Shaw, respectively, on Fisher’s place in research and teaching of ancient Greek social history.

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