When he studies the relationships of Athens with other Greek cities and with the Persians, Isocrates mentions several times episodes in which violence is used. However, a lexical investigation centered around the terms βία and ὕβρις shows that, for him, Athens almost never seems responsible for political violence. Instead, the city is always presented as struggling against the exactions of its enemies, opposing to their violence a legitimate force that serves the common interests. Historical examples show how dangerous it can be for a city to exercise violence and activism. So Isocrates invites Athens to choose gentleness and persuasion in order to change its relations with other Greek cities and to establish a solid hegemony, based on real...
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Xenophon’s Spartan sympathies are well known. So are his political leanings. They clearly appear in ...
In Aristotle’s ethical and political works, violence is either suffered or wielded. From the point o...
The destruction of the cities of the defeated together with the disappearance of the polis as a terr...
Si l’on en croit les adversaires de la démocratie, la violence participe de la définition du régime ...
Being an historian of war and a former general in the Athenian army, Thucydides wanted also to show ...
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Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Violence, société et pouvoir à Venise (XIVe-XVe siècles) : forme et évoluti...
We may use or suffer violence. The use of the violence that enforces an obligation is often opposed ...
Medea appears as one of the most striking embodiments of violence, leaving behind her - whether in C...
Le colloque « De la démocratie au Brésil » entend revenir sur quatre années qui questionnent les fon...
Dans la dernière période de la République romaine, particulièrement à l'époque de Cicéron, les réuni...
Xenophon’s Spartan sympathies are well known. So are his political leanings. They clearly appear in ...
In Aristotle’s ethical and political works, violence is either suffered or wielded. From the point o...
The destruction of the cities of the defeated together with the disappearance of the polis as a terr...
Si l’on en croit les adversaires de la démocratie, la violence participe de la définition du régime ...
Being an historian of war and a former general in the Athenian army, Thucydides wanted also to show ...
The paper considers the notion of violence (bia, hybris) in Xenophon's historiographical work, makin...
Isokrates' Archidamos is an energetic appeal to oppose Messenia's secession from Sparta following th...
International audienceIn 403 BCE the Athenians reconciled after several months of bloody civil war o...
La violence de Rome à la guerre n’est certes pas un mythe. Mais, jusqu’à très récemment, les histori...
International audienceIsokrates' Archidamos is an energetic appeal to oppose Messenia's secession fr...
Elisabeth Crouzet-Pavan, Violence, société et pouvoir à Venise (XIVe-XVe siècles) : forme et évoluti...
We may use or suffer violence. The use of the violence that enforces an obligation is often opposed ...
Medea appears as one of the most striking embodiments of violence, leaving behind her - whether in C...
Le colloque « De la démocratie au Brésil » entend revenir sur quatre années qui questionnent les fon...
Dans la dernière période de la République romaine, particulièrement à l'époque de Cicéron, les réuni...