| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Peasants, Politics, and Popular Culture; Part One: Discourses; 2. Slaves Tell Tales: The Culture of Subordinate Groups in Ancient Greece; 3. Pigs, Asses, and Swine: Obscenity and the Popular Imagination in Ancient Sicyon; Part Two: Practices; 4. Revelry and Riot in Ancient Megara: Democratic Disorder or Ritual Reversal?; 5. Street Theater and Popular Justice in Ancient Greece; Epilogue; 6. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index Locorum; General Index |
| Summary |
Most studies of ancient Greek politics focus on formal institutions such as the political assembly and the law courts, and overlook the role that informal social practices played in the regulation of the political order. Sara Forsdyke argues, by contrast, that various forms of popular culture in ancient Greece--including festival revelry, oral storytelling, and popular forms of justice--were a vital medium for political expression and played an important role in the negotiation of relations between elites and masses, as well as masters and slaves, in the Greek city-states. Although these fo |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- History and criticism
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Popular culture -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C
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Oral tradition -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Literature and society -- Greece -- History -- To 146 B.C
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship.
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Greek literature
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Literature and society
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Oral tradition
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Politics and government
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Popular culture
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Politics and government -- To 146 B.C.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85057114
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Greece
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781400842155 |
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1400842158 |
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