LEADER 04435nam 22006491c 450 001 9910787504003321 005 20200115203623.0 010 $a1-4725-9809-1 010 $a1-4725-2113-7 024 7 $a10.5040/9781472598097 035 $a(CKB)2670000000430235 035 $a(EBL)1394924 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001168439 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11685533 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001168439 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11143960 035 $a(PQKB)11286917 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1394924 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1394924 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10771814 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL603447 035 $a(OCoLC)893336247 035 $a(OCoLC)1058961635 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09258313 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000430235 100 $a20150227d2008 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aSolon the thinker $epolitical thought in archaic Athens $fby John David Lewis 210 1$aLondon $aNew York $cBloomsbury $d2008. 215 $a1 online resource (193 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2006. 311 $a0-7156-3728-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index 327 $aAcknowledgments -- Preface -- Author's Note -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Approaching Solon's fragments -- 1. 'I brought the people together': Solon's polis as kosmos -- 2. 'To know all things': psychic qualities and the polis -- 3. 'In time, retribution surely comes': necessity, dike? and the good order of the polis -- 4. 'A kosmos of words': archaic logic and the organization of poem 4 -- 5. 'Moira brings good and evil': bios and the failure of Dike? -- 6. 'We will not exchange our excellence': Moira and wealth -- 7. 'I set them free': tyranny, slavery and freedom -- Appendix: glossary of terms used by Solon -- Notes -- Solon's fragments, translated by John Lewis -- Bibliography -- Index 330 $a"In Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its people, depends upon their acceptance of justice and moderation as orderly norms of life, and leads to the rejection of tyranny and slavery in favour of freedom. But Solon's naturalistic views are limited; in his own life each person is subject to the arbitrary foibles of moira, the inscrutable fate that governs human life, and that brings us to an unknowable but inevitable death. Solon represents both the new rational, scientific spirit that was sweeping the Aegean - and a return to the fatalism that permeated Greek intellectual life. This first paperback edition contains a new appendix of translations of the fragments of Solon by the author."--Bloomsbury Publishing 330 8 $aIn Solon the Thinker, John Lewis presents the hypothesis that Solon saw Athens as a self-governing, self-supporting system akin to the early Greek conceptions of the cosmos. Solon's polis functions not through divine intervention but by its own internal energy, which is founded on the intellectual health of its people, depends upon their acceptance of justice and moderation as orderly norms of life, and leads to the rejection of tyranny and slavery in favour of freedom. But Solon's naturalistic views are limited; in his own life each person is subject to the arbitrary foibles of moira, the inscrutable fate that governs human life, and that brings us to an unknowable but inevitable death. Solon represents both the new rational, scientific spirit that was sweeping the Aegean - and a return to the fatalism that permeated Greek intellectual life. This first paperback edition contains a new appendix of translations of the fragments of Solon by the author. 606 $aPolitical science 606 $2Ancient Greece 606 $aState, The 606 $aDemocracy 607 $aAthens (Greece) 615 0$aPolitical science. 615 0$aState, The. 615 0$aDemocracy. 676 $a938.502092 700 $aLewis$b John$f1955-2012,$01529010 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 801 2$bUkLoBP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910787504003321 996 $aSolon the thinker$93773025 997 $aUNINA