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- How to Flourish: An Ancient Guide to Living Well<\/em>,<\/strong> By Aristotle, Publisher: Princeton University Press (2023)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAristotle\u2019s Nicomachean Ethics<\/em> is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing. How to Flourish<\/em> is a carefully abridged version of the entire work in a highly readable and colloquial new translation by Susan Sauv\u00e9 Meyer that makes Aristotle\u2019s timeless insights about how to lead a good life more engaging and accessible than ever before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For Aristotle, flourishing involves becoming a good person through practice, and having a life of the mind. To that end, he draws vivid portraits of virtuous and vicious characters and offers sound practical advice about everything from eating and drinking to managing money, controlling anger, getting along with others, and telling jokes. He also distinguishes different kinds of wisdom that are essential to flourishing and offers an unusual perspective on how to appreciate our place in the universe and our relation to the divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Omitting Aristotle\u2019s digressions and repetitions and overly technical passages, How to Flourish<\/em> provides connecting commentary that allows readers to follow the continuous line of his thought; it also features the original Greek on facing pages. The result is an inviting and lively version of an essential work about how to flourish and lead a good life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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2.<\/strong> Demosthene<\/strong> Discours<\/strong>, By Pierre Chiron, Publisher: Les Belles Lettres (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nPlutarch painted for us a young Demosthenes practicing declaiming tirades with stones in his mouth or reciting speeches while running uphill. This folklore hides an exceptional period of history and personality. The period was one of dark times for Athenian democracy, confronted with the brutality of the Macedonian monarchy which would soon temporarily overthrow it.
The personality is that of the Greek orator who exerted the most profound influence on the art of oratory from the 4th century BC to Clemenceau and Robert Badinter. This volume innovates doubly, by bringing together under the same cover the translation of all the preserved speeches and by presenting them in chronological order. This order creates new neighborhoods and renews the perception of the work and the man.
The figure of Demosthenes appears in its complexity, that of a man who was divided between the great debates of his time and a more trivial activity of assisting parties involved in trials, that of a politician who experienced much of chess and whose role was less decisive than the myth built around his name might have led us to believe, but also that of a quasi-philosopher, who reflected in depth on the role of the advisor in democracy, at a safe distance between direct action and the definition of principles valid for a longer time and a wider geopolitical space.
To read all of Demosthenes is to hear the voice of the greatest orator of all time, made audible again thanks to this talented translation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
3.<\/strong> Sexuality in Greek and Roman Society and LiteratureA Sourcebook<\/strong>, By Marguerite Johnson, Publisher: Routledge (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThis second edition includes an updated review of sexuality in Greece and Rome, an expanded bibliography and numerous new passages with original translations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This book provides readers with detailed information, notes, and original translated passages on the fascinating and multi-faceted theme of ancient sexuality. The sources range from the era of Homer and Hesiod through to the Graeco-Roman world of the Fourth Century CE and explore the diversitiy of approaches to sexuality and sexual expression, as well as how these issues relate to the rest of ancient society and culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sexuality in Greek And Roman Society and Literature<\/em> is an invaluable resource to students and academics alike, providing a detailed series of chapters on all major facets of sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome. It will particularly appeal to those interested in sexuality and gender in antiquity, as well as ancient literature and social studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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4. The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature<\/strong>, By Raquel Fornieles, Publisher: De Gruyter (2022)<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nThe concept of news that we have today is not a modern invention, but rather a social and cultural institution that has been passed down to us by the Greeks as a legacy. This concept is only modified by the social, political, and economic conditions that make our society different from theirs. In order to understand what was considered news in Ancient Greece, a lexical study of \u1f04\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 and all of its derivatives attested in a representative corpus of the period spanning from the second millennium BC to the end of the fourth BC has been conducted. This piece of research provides new contributions both to studies in Classics (there are hardly any studies on the transmission of news in Antiquity) and in journalism. This study also reveals an interesting point: the presence of false news \u2013 similar to current fake news<\/em> \u2013 in ancient Greek literature, especially in tragedy and historiography when it comes to the use of the derivatives of \u1f04\u03b3\u03b3\u03b5\u03bb\u03bf\u03c2 (angel).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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5.<\/strong> Neuf comme l’antique, la Grece ancienne au present<\/strong>, Publisher: Critique (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\u201cThe Greeks are not our ancestors,\u201d tells us the Hellenist Pierre Judet de La Combe. Blasphemy? No. Simple reminder: from rebirth to rebirth, it is we who adopt the Greeks.
Today we are experiencing one of these renaissances. \u201cDead languages\u201d have never been more threatened, the classical humanities more marginalized; Ancient Greece, however, continues to generate work that vigorously questions our political, ethical and philosophical present.
This number illustrates it. Marielle Mac\u00e9 presents Fr\u00e9d\u00e9rique Ildefonse’s masterwork on the Greek conception of the subject. Marc Lebiez shows the omnipresence of Athens in our debates on democracy and demagoguery. Martin Rueff focuses on mourners as a remarkable phenomenon of anthropological longevity. Philippe Roger evokes the Greece of Roland Barthes whose Memoir on Greek tragedy, which remains unpublished, has just been published. Pascal Charvet comments on the imposing Tout Homer to which Pierre Judet de La Combe contributed, as translator of the Iliad \u2013 who himself answers our questions about this presence of Greece among us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
6.<\/strong> Plato Goes to China: The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism<\/strong>, By Shadi Bartsch, Publisher: Princeton University Press<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nAs improbable as it may sound, an illuminating way to understand today\u2019s China and how it views the West is to look at the astonishing ways Chinese intellectuals are interpreting\u2014or is it misinterpreting?\u2014the Greek classics. In Plato Goes to China<\/em>, Shadi Bartsch offers a provocative look at Chinese politics and ideology by exploring Chinese readings of Plato, Aristotle, Thucydides, and other ancient writers. She shows how Chinese thinkers have dramatically recast the Greek classics to support China\u2019s political agenda, diagnose the ills of the West, and assert the superiority of China\u2019s own Confucian classical tradition.
In a lively account that ranges from the Jesuits to Xi Jinping, Bartsch traces how the fortunes of the Greek classics have changed in China since the seventeenth century. Before the Tiananmen Square crackdown, the Chinese typically read Greek philosophy and political theory in order to promote democratic reform or discover the secrets of the success of Western democracy and science. No longer. Today, many Chinese intellectuals use these texts to critique concepts such as democracy, citizenship, and rationality. Plato\u2019s \u201cNoble Lie,\u201d in which citizens are kept in their castes through deception, is lauded; Aristotle\u2019s Politics<\/em> is seen as civic brainwashing; and Thucydides\u2019s criticism of Athenian democracy is applied to modern America.
What do antiquity\u2019s \u201cdead white men\u201d have left to teach? By uncovering the unusual ways Chinese thinkers are answering that question, Plato Goes to China<\/em> opens a surprising new window on China today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
7.<\/strong> Au plaisir des dieux: Experiences du sensible dans les rituels en Grece ancienne<\/strong>, By Adeline Grand-Clement, Publisher: Anarcharsis (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nIn ancient Greece the gods were omnipresent, from the clouds to the slightest sprig of rosemary. Rituals flourished. Calling upon the deities was both common and extraordinary \u2013 and always potentially dangerous.
We know the procedures mobilized in these fragile moments of the \u201ckitchen of sacrifice\u201d; we are less informed about the range of senses that had to be awakened at the crucial moment of the encounter with the gods.
Adeline Grand-Cl\u00e9ment launches here into an investigation as close as possible to the feelings of the participants, seeking in detail to grasp the way in which darkness or light, colors, smells, touch, sounds or landscapes modeled specific sensory spaces, considered effective because suitable to satisfy the pleasure of the gods. An entire embodied universe is then revealed in layers, gestures and words, objects, plants and animals, foods and liquids ingested. The testimony of a relationship with the world and its infinite components: an aesthetic, from which it remains possible to make honey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
8.<\/strong> Old Age In Greek and Roman Art<\/strong>, By Susan B. Matheson, J.J.Pollitt, Publisher: Yale University Art Gallery (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nA comprehensive look at ancient sculptures, wall paintings, vases, and more depicting the elderly in Greek and Roman society<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some of the most vivid portraits in ancient art depict older members of society. In marble and bronze sculptures, on coins and painted vases, and in wall paintings and mosaics, elderly men and women are shown with the telltale signs of old age: wrinkles, white hair, sagging jowls, and stooped postures. This publication examines more than 300 of these vivid images to reveal perceptions\u2014both positive and negative\u2014about aging and the aged in Greek and Roman society. Seven chapters explore medium and form\u2014including Greek grave reliefs, marble grave monuments in Roman Africa, and Roman sarcophagi\u2014as well as subjects, from priests and priestesses to ancient kings of Athens, old gods, and satyrs. Grounded in the analysis of art, contemporary literature, and the archaeological record, this comprehensive volume is the first in English to explore how old age was presented in art from antiquity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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9. Friendship In Ancient Greek Thought and Literature<\/strong>, By Athanasios Efstathiou, Jakub Filonik, Christos Kremmydas, Eleni Volonaki, Publisher: Brill (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nFriendship (philia<\/em>) is a complex and multi-faceted concept that is frequently attested in ancient Greek literature and thought. It is also an important social phenomenon and an institution that features in classical Greek social, cultural, and intellectual history. This collected volume seeks to complement the extensive modern scholarship on this topic by shedding light on complementary representations, nuances and tensions of friendship in a range of different sources, literary, epigraphic, and visual. It offers a broad overview of the contours of this important social phenomenon and helps the reader get a glimpse of its depth and richness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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10. Les grecques, Destins de femmes en Grece antique<\/strong>, By Aurelie Damet, Publisher: Tallandier (2023)<\/p>\n\n\n
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<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\nLives in chiaroscuro, this is how we could summarize the destiny of women in Greek Antiquity. Hydna the diver, Euthymia the magistrate, Phanostrat\u00e8 the pediatrician, Corinne the poet or Nikar\u00e9t\u00e8 the ribbon seller: these women and their sisters each participated in their own way in the history of the cities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ancient sources highlight the role of women in areas as varied as the transmission of citizenship, financial transactions, service to the gods, medical practice, gymnasium stewardship, retail sales, philosophical asceticism or sabotage of ships. Entire sections of their lives have been illuminated by recent research on early childhood, sport, the world of work, public honors, eugenics and family law. Eighteen life stories reveal destinies shaped despite the omnipresent shadow of patriarchal structures. Actresses, long confined to the background, to whom this work pays tribute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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