World Civ-Ancient Greece Archives - Daniel Aaron Lazar Fri, 12 Jun 2020 18:19:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 In Our Time: Epicureanism https://daniellazar.com/2013/04/07/in-our-time-epicureanism/ Sun, 07 Apr 2013 14:06:08 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4385 Angie Hobbs, David Sedley and James Warren join Melvyn Bragg to discuss Epicureanism, the system of philosophy based on the teachings of Epicurus and founded in Athens in the fourth century BC. Epicurus outlined a comprehensive philosophical system based on the idea that everything in the Universe is constructed from two phenomena: atoms and void. … Continue reading In Our Time: Epicureanism →

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]]> Video: Athens The Truth About Democracy https://daniellazar.com/2013/02/17/video-athens-the-truth-about-democracy/ Sun, 17 Feb 2013 10:14:13 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=4222 Check out this two-part documentary about democracy in Athens. Pretty well done.

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]]> 'An Army of Lovers' – The Sacred Band of Thebes https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/11/an-army-of-lovers-the-sacred-band-of-thebes-2/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:15:22 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3514 Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece. (History Today)

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]]> Women and Politics in Democratic Athens https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/11/women-and-politics-in-democratic-athens-2/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:14:04 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3511 Susan Cole looks at how, though formally excluded from the political process, Athena’s sisters nevertheless made their mark. (History Today)

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]]> The City and the Democratic Ideal https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/11/3507/ Sun, 11 Mar 2012 07:12:38 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3507 ‘City’, the word, comes to us from the Latin (civitas), but the city as an entity was an ancient Greek invention under the name of polis. Almost all our political vocabulary, from ‘political’ on, is rooted therefore in the ancient Greek city, and it was within that very special cultural context that democracy, another Greek … Continue reading The City and the Democratic Ideal →

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]]> Classicism and the American Revolution https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/classicism-and-the-american-revolution/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:19:31 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3447 The symbols, slogans, ideas and architecture of the Founding Fathers were Classicism and the American Revolution. (History Today)

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]]> Women and Politics in Democratic Athens https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/women-and-politics-in-democratic-athens/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 10:14:38 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3438 Susan Cole looks at how, though formally excluded from the political process, Athena’s sisters nevertheless made their mark. (History Today)

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]]> The City and the Democratic Ideal https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/the-city-and-the-democratic-ideal/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:59:46 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3410 François Hartog on how urban living has coincided with the advocacy of popular rulefrom Plato through to Machiavelli, Rousseau and 20th-century sociologists. (History Today)

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]]> 'An Army of Lovers' – The Sacred Band of Thebes https://daniellazar.com/2012/03/10/an-army-of-lovers-the-sacred-band-of-thebes/ Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:20:07 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3344 Louis Crompton argues that male love and military prowess went hand in hand in classical Greece.

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]]> Will Durant: The Life of Greece https://daniellazar.com/2012/02/18/will-durant-the-life-of-greece/ Sat, 18 Feb 2012 14:14:49 +0000 http://www.daniellazar.com/?p=3256 William James Durant (November 5, 1885 – November 7, 1981) was a prolific American writer, historian, and philosopher. He is best known for The Story of Civilization, 11 volumes written in collaboration with his wife Ariel Durant and published between 1935 and 1975. Here is volume two, The Life of Greece. It is arguably the … Continue reading Will Durant: The Life of Greece →

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