A History of the Greek City States 700-338 B. C.

1977 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 630
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Africa ◽  
Raphael Sealey
Keyword(s):  
Greek City ◽  
History Of ◽  
City States

Topography of Athens

Classics ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey M. Hurwit ◽  
Ioannis Mitsios
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Plain ◽  
Aegean Sea ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Urban Core ◽  
Ancient City ◽  
History Of ◽  
City States ◽  
City State ◽  
The City

The ancient city-state (or polis) of Athens was contiguous with the region known as Attica, a large, triangular peninsula extending southeastward from the Greek mainland into the Aegean Sea. In the western angle of Attica, on a coastal plain surrounded by four mountains (Hymettos, Pentelikon, Parnes, and Aigaleos), lay the city itself. Although the modern city has thickly spread up the slopes of the mountains as well as to the sea, the study of Athenian topography concentrates on the monuments, buildings, and spaces of the ancient urban core, an area roughly 3 square kilometers surrounding the Acropolis and defended in the Classical period by a wall some 6.5 kilometers in length. Athens is the ancient Greek city that we know best, and it is unquestionably the Greek city whose art, architecture, literature, philosophy, and political history have had the greatest impact on the Western tradition and imagination. As a result, “Athenian” is sometimes considered synonymous with “Greek.” It is not. In many respects, Athens was exceptional among Greek city-states, not typical: it was a very different place from, say, Thebes or Sparta. Still, the study of Athens, its monuments, and its culture needs no defense, and the charge of “Athenocentrism” is a hollow indictment when one stands before the Parthenon or holds a copy of Sophocles’ Antigone. This article will refer to the following periods in the history of Athens and Greece (the dates are conventional): late Bronze, or Mycenaean, Age (1550–1100 bce); Dark Age (1100–760 bce); Archaic (760–480 bce); Classical (480–323 bce); Hellenistic (323 –31 bce); and Roman (31 BCE–c. 475 ce).

A Brief History of Rhetoric in Narrative Advertising

2019 ◽  
pp. 151-163
Author(s):  
Nilay Tan Çakır
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Narrative Form ◽  
History Of Rhetoric ◽  
Greek City ◽  
Face To Face ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Rhetorical Figures ◽  
History Of ◽  
City States ◽  
Advertising Content

The term “rhetoric” is derived from the Greek word rhetor. In its original meaning, the term is known to be used for describing an “orator,” a term which refers to a person or a politician giving a speech in a public space or defending himself/herself in the court in Antique Age because in Greek city-states, social sphere was the place where spoken language and face-to-face communication prevailed in antique age conditions. Today, on the other hand, the population to be addressed has enlarged, and new platforms which can influence a number of people at the same time have emerged. Advertising is one of those platforms in which rhetoric is most frequently used because “persuading” the consumer is one of the most significant elements in advertising content. Besides, advertising is a persuasive narrative form and has strong influence in terms of rhetorical figures. In this chapter, a brief history of rhetoric is presented, and then a relationship between rhetoric and advertising narrative is established.

The Formation of Greek City-States: Status, Class, and Land Tenure Systems

2013 ◽  
Vol 68 (04) ◽  
pp. 615-657
Author(s):  
Julien Zurbach
Keyword(s):  
Land Tenure ◽  
Essential Feature ◽  
Formative Period ◽  
Seventh Century ◽  
Greek City ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
City States ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The City

Recent scholarship has often remarked on the opposition between two conceptions of Archaic Greek societies, relating either to a legal and static definition of status or to a notion of status as personal and fluid, linked to diversified strategies for obtaining social distinction. This article seeks to move beyond this opposition by examining the history of status groups in the Archaic period. After analyzing the key stages within the complex historiography devoted to this subject, it goes on to provide a history of status groups during the formative period of the city-states. The creation of new status groups was an essential feature of the city-states’ history and was primarily linked to indebtedness and war. Although statuses were collective and often imposed from the outside, they nevertheless display a historical development that is central to the formation of city-states. In the seventh century BCE, new groups were created in response to the aristocracy’s need for a workforce. The resulting conflict led to an evolution of the systems regulating access to land and food. This reorganization of entitlement, which was how communities responded to the social and economic crisis they faced, was in turn based on the creation of new status groups. Social conflict led to the definition of a new system of status groups.

A History of the Greek City States, ca. 700-338 B.C.

1977 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 927
Author(s):  
W. R. Connor ◽  
Raphael Sealey
Keyword(s):  
Greek City ◽  
History Of ◽  
City States

A History of the Greek City States ca. 700-338 B. C.

Phoenix ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 367
Author(s):  
Malcolm F. McGregor ◽  
Raphael Sealey
Keyword(s):  
Greek City ◽  
History Of ◽  
City States
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