國立高雄大學圖資館 |

Language: English

Back

Philos and polities: The symposion a...

Corner, Sean.

Philos and polities: The symposion and the origins of the polis (Greece).

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Philos and polities: The symposion and the origins of the polis (Greece).
Author:	Corner, Sean.
Description:	560 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Josiah Ober.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 3052.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-08A.
Subject:	History, Ancient.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188619
ISBN:	9780542306914

Philos and polities: The symposion and the origins of the polis (Greece).
Corner, Sean.

Philos and polities: The symposion and the origins of the polis (Greece). - 560 p.

Adviser: Josiah Ober.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.

According to the prevalent view, the symposion was an aristocratic institution, generating solidarity on the basis of class distinction. It represented an exclusive, private, elitist social world at odds with the egalitarian civic community of the polis. I argue the opposite: that the symposion arose in tandem with the polis in the Archaic period and played a crucial role in its formation. In turn, I argue that this casts doubt upon the universally held view of Archaic Greece as aristocratic and opens the way for a fundamental re-examination of this seminal period in Greek history.

ISBN: 9780542306914Subjects--Topical Terms:

212596
History, Ancient.

Philos and polities: The symposion and the origins of the polis (Greece).
LDR:03222nmm _2200289 _450 001 170736
005 20061228142231.5
008 090528s2005 eng d
020 $a 9780542306914
035 $a 00242766
040 $a UnM $c UnM
100 0 $a Corner, Sean. $3 244765
245 1 0 $a Philos and polities: The symposion and the origins of the polis (Greece).
300 $a 560 p.
500 $a Adviser: Josiah Ober.
500 $a Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-08, Section: A, page: 3052.
502 $a Thesis (Ph.D.)--Princeton University, 2005.
520 # $a According to the prevalent view, the symposion was an aristocratic institution, generating solidarity on the basis of class distinction. It represented an exclusive, private, elitist social world at odds with the egalitarian civic community of the polis. I argue the opposite: that the symposion arose in tandem with the polis in the Archaic period and played a crucial role in its formation. In turn, I argue that this casts doubt upon the universally held view of Archaic Greece as aristocratic and opens the way for a fundamental re-examination of this seminal period in Greek history.
520 # $a The symposion was not an elite anti-city, but an institution that mediated the relationship of oikos and polis and structured the symposiast's experience as a lived lesson in citizenship. As such, it provided a microcosm in which the symposiast concretely and immediately experienced, and was socialized into, the otherwise abstract and imagined terms of citizen community. In the banquet, goods were distributed, social bonds formed and a sense of self conceived, such as to detach a man from narrow individualism, class corporatism and exclusive family loyalty. He opened his house to the public world of male society, forging bonds with men who were not family, sharing a common identity with the men with whom he shared the city. These bonds transcended class difference, transcended a man's household interests, his identity in terms of birth and wealth, and instead identified him with the collective interest of male, egalitarian community. In the dining room, he formed himself as a polites; he imagined himself in civic community. Despite a wealth of scholarship, there is still not a single, comprehensive account of the symposion, examining integrally all its facets and systematically conceptualizing its place within society. I endeavour to provide such an account, analyzing all media of sympotic artefact (archaeological, iconographic and literary) in a holistic account of the symposion as it symbolically figured and materially structured sociality and as these functions came together in its capacity as a key site of socialization. To conceptualize this, I draw on a variety of social scientific models and ethnographic comparanda.
590 $a School code: 0181.
650 # 0 $a History, Ancient. $3 212596
650 # 0 $a Literature, Classical. $3 226952
650 # 0 $a Art History. $3 212490
690 $a 0294
690 $a 0377
690 $a 0579
710 0 # $a Princeton University. $3 212488
773 0 # $g 66-08A. $t Dissertation Abstracts International
790 $a 0181
790 1 0 $a Ober, Josiah, $e advisor
791 $a Ph.D.
792 $a 2005
856 4 0 $u http://libsw.nuk.edu.tw:81/login?url=http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188619 $z http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3188619