Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum) (Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classica Batava Supplementum)

This volume offers a range of innovative approaches to Solon of Athens, legendary law-giver, statesman, and poet of the early sixth century B.C. In the first part, Solon's poetry is reconsidered against the background of oral poetics and other early Greek poetry. The connection between Solon's alleged roles as poet and as politician is fundamentally questioned. Part two offers a reassessment of Solon's laws based on a revision of the textual tradition and recent views on early Greek lawgiving. In part three, fresh scrutiny of the archeological and written evidence of archaic Greece results in new perspectives on the agricultural crisis and Solon's role in the social and political developments of sixth-century Athens. Originally published in hardcover ISBN-13: 9789004149540 CONTENTS 8 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 10 NOTE ON ABBREVIATIONS, TEXTS AND TRANSLATIONS 12 INTRODUCTION --- Josine H. Blok and André P.M.H. Lardinois 14 Part I SOLON THE POET 26 Chapter One HAVE WE SOLON’S VERSES? --- André P.M.H. Lardinois 28 Chapter Two THE TRANSGRESSIVE ELEGY OF SOLON? --- Elizabeth Irwin 49 Chapter Three SOLON’S SELF-REFLEXIVE POLITICAL PERSONA AND ITS AUDIENCE --- Eva Stehle 92 Chapter Four POETICS AND POLITICS: TRADITION RE-WORKED IN SOLON’S ‘EUNOMIA’ (POEM 4) --- Fabienne Blaise 127 Chapter Five STRATEGIES OF PERSUASION IN SOLON’S ELEGIES --- Maria Noussia 147 Chapter Six SOLON IN NO MAN’S LAND --- Richard P. Martin 170 Part II SOLON THE LAWGIVER 186 Chapter Seven IDENTIFYING SOLONIAN LAWS --- Adele C. Scafuro 188 Chapter Eight SOLON’S FUNERARY LAWS: QUESTIONS OF AUTHENTICITY AND FUNCTION --- Josine H. Blok 210 Chapter Nine THE REFORMS AND LAWS OF SOLON: AN OPTIMISTIC VIEW --- P.J. Rhodes 261 Chapter Ten LEGAL PROCEDURE IN SOLON’S LAWS --- Michael Gagarin 274 Chapter Eleven THE FIGURE OF SOLON IN THE ATHÊNAIÔN POLITEIA --- Hans-Joachim Gehrke 289 Chapter Twelve SOLON AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS IN ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL GREECE --- Edward M. Harris 303 Part III SOLON THE ATHENIAN 332 Chapter Thirteen SOLON’S REFORMS: AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE --- John Bintliff 334 Chapter Fourteen LAND, LABOR AND ECONOMY IN SOLONIAN ATHENS: BREAKING THE IMPASSE BETWEEN ARCHAEOLOGY AND HISTORY. --- Sara Forsdyke 347 Chapter Fifteen MASS AND ELITE IN SOLON’S ATHENS: THE PROPERTY CLASSES REVISITED --- Hans van Wees 364 Chapter Sixteen ATHENIAN AND SPARTAN EUNOMIA, OR: WHAT TO DO WITH SOLON’S TIMOCRACY? --- Kurt A. Raaflaub 403 Chapter Seventeen PLUTARCH’S SOLON: A TISSUE OF COMMONPLACES OR A HISTORICAL ACCOUNT? --- Lukas de Blois 442 Chapter Eighteen SOLON AND THE HOROI: FACTS ON THE GROUND IN ARCHAIC ATHENS --- Josiah Ober 454 Appendix A SELECTION OF SOLONIAN POETRY 470 NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 474 INDEX OF PASSAGES 478 INDEX OF SUBJECTS 482 INDEX OF NAMES AND PLACES 487 Brill,Academic,Publishers Brill Academic Publishers Edited By Josine H. Blok, André P.m.h. Lardinois. This Volume Originated At A Conference Which Was Held At The Study Center Of The Radboud University Nijmegen, Soeterbeeck, In The Netherlands In December 2003 -- Acknowledgements. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Now available in paperback for the first time, this collection of essays by specialists in the field offers fundamentally new perspectives on the poetry, laws, and historical facts associated with the figure of Solon of Athens.