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Biographies of Ancient Greeks and Romans
Biographies of ancient Greeks and Romans, recommended on Five Books: “in The Rise and Fall of Athens, you get to see four stages in the development of Athens over time. In the early stages, Plutarch has to push back into legendary and mythological times, with the founders like Theseus and even Solon…Then we get into the lives of the earliest real historical figures, such as Themistocles and Aristides.
Le charisme en politique : Max Weber face à l'Antiquité grecque et romaine
Max Weber face à l'Antiquité grecque et romaine Pascal Montlahuc, Jean-Pierre Guilhembet et Raphaëlle Laignoux (dir.) … Cet ouvrage confronte le concept wébérien de charisme aux pratiques politiques antiques. À quelles conditions peut-on parler du charisme de l’oligarque, du roi, du général, du consul, de l’empereur ? Quelles étaient, dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine, les modalités concrètes de construction et de mise en scène du pouvoir charismatique ?
The Best Books on Thucydides
Your book, How to Think about War, is an excellent introduction to Thucydides and his History of the Peloponnesian War. You’ve also chosen five other books to help understand and put him in perspective. But before we get to those, can you tell me who Thucydides was? Why we should care about him, two and a half thousand years later? Thucydides came of age in what we think of today as the ‘Golden Age’ of classical Athens.
Loving Assassins
In 514 BC the city of Athens, then under the control of the tyrant Hippias, witnessed a daring assassination, the first known political murder in European history. A pair of male lovers, the older named Aristogiton and the younger Harmodius, plotted to kill Hippias at the Panathenaic procession, a public ritual instituted by Peisistratus, Hippias’s father and the city’s previous ruler.
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