Kosmos

'Kosmos' is the word the ancient Greeks used for human social order. It has therefore a special application to the Greeks' peculiar social and political unit of communal life that they called the 'polis'. Of the many hundreds of such units in classical Greece the best documented and the most complex was democratic Athens. The purpose of this collective 1998 volume is to re-evaluate the foundations of classical Athens' highly successful experiment in communal social existence. Topics addressed include religion and ritualization, political friendship and enmity, gender and sexuality, sports and litigation, and economic and symbolic exchange. The book aims to make a major contribution, theoretical as well as empirical, towards understanding how the social order of community life may be sustained and enhanced.

ISBN 0521570816   Pages 286 ISBN13 9780521570817 (What's this?)   Volumes 000 Publisher Cambridge University Press   Weight (grammes) 590 Imprint Cambridge University Press   Published in Cambridge Format Hardback   Height (mm) 228 Publication date 02 Jul 1998   Width (mm) 152 Library of Congress DF78 .K67 1998   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY 938.5   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		List of illustrations
		Notes on contributors
		Preface and acknowledgements
		Abbreviations
1		Introduction: defining a kosmos by Paul Cartledge		1
2		Inter-personal relations on Athenian pots: putting others in their place by Robin Osborne		13
3		Political friendship and the ideology of reciprocity by Malcolm Schofield		37
4		The politics of affection: emotional attachments in Athenian society by Lin Foxhall		52
5		Between koinon and idion: legal and social dimensions of religious associations in ancient Athens by Ilias Arnaoutoglou		68
6		Gymnasia and the democratic values of leisure by Nick Fisher		84
7		The seductions of the gaze: Socrates and his girlfriends by Simon Goldhill		105
8		The Athenian political perception of the idiotes by Lene Rubinstein		125
9a		Enmity in fourth-century Athens by P. J. Rhodes		144
9b		The rhetoric of enmity in the Attic orators by Stephen Todd		162
10		The well-ordered polis: topographies of civic space by Sitta Von Reden		170
11		The threat from the Piraeus by Jim Roy		191
12		Encounters in the Agora by Paul Millett		203
		General bibliography		229
		Index locorum		250
		Index		262

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