Kostas Vlassopoulos
Auteur van Politics: Antiquity and Its Legacy (Ancients and Moderns)
Over de Auteur
Kostas Vlassopoulos is Lecturer in Greek History at the University of Nottingham. He is the author of Unthinking the Greek Polis: Ancient Greek History Beyond Eurocentrism (2007) and of several articles on politics and society, in the world of classical antiquity.
Werken van Kostas Vlassopoulos
Violence and community : law, space and identity in the ancient Eastern Mediterranean world (2017) — Redacteur — 1 exemplaar
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The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Greek Religion (Oxford Handbooks in Classics and Ancient History) (2015) — Medewerker — 32 exemplaren
The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (2016) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren
Classics and Imperialism in the British Empire (Classical Presences) (2010) — Medewerker — 9 exemplaren
The Western Time of Ancient History: Historiographical Encounters with the Greek and Roman Pasts (2011) — Medewerker — 6 exemplaren
Antonio Gramsci and the Ancient World (Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies) (2021) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
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Vlassopoulos’ historiographical review is fascinating, tracing the shifting perceptions and interpretations of Greek history from the ancient Greeks themselves to the formation of a late-20th century orthodoxy that posits the classical Greek polis as a community of citizens, in contrast to the Oriental despotisms of the East. Vlassopoulos claims to be working in the (M.I.) Finleyan tradition of questioning presumptions and rethinking methods, then directs some of his sharpest critiques at Finley himself for insisting that, before the Greeks, peoples of the Near East had no experience with politics. On the contrary, writes Vlassopoulos, evidence for self-government among non-Greeks—political deliberation and the administration of city life, the settlement of disputes and the representation of the community to higher authorities—is abundant and persuasive. Likewise, Finley’s reduction of all ancient Greek cities into isolated, ideal economic types (‘the consumer city’) ignores the whole complex of relations, processes, and functions within which ancient cities were situated.
This is a scholarly work, with copious references and notes, but the arguments and evidence are clearly laid out. Vlassopoulos calls for a rewriting of Greek history from a different perspective, but he does not write it himself. What he does do is reveal the historiographical problems inherent in teleological Occidentalism and the ‘traditional’ narrative of ancient Greek history. Anyone interested in ancient history will find this a stimulating, thought-provoking book.… (meer)