Jakub Filonik
Biographic Data
| ID | 1444973 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jakub Filonik |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jakub |
| FAMILY NAME | Filonik |
| SIGNATURE | FILONIK J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Silesia in Katowice |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9624-1041 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Concept of Sharing in the Polis: Its Origins and Early Developments
This article revisits the origins and development of the language of ‘sharing’ (in particular, the verbs metechein, meteinai, metadidonai, and metalambanein) in literary sources, situating it within broader debates on citizenship, political participation, and the development of abstract language. I argue that scholarly emphasis on the distinction between metechein tēs poleōs and metechein tēs politeias risks obscuring a broader semantic continuum…
How Does Lycurgus Keep to His Point? Legal and Rhetorical Relevance in Against Leocrates
Acquitted/Convicted by a Single Vote: Aeschines 3.252 and Vote Counts in Athenian Oratory
This paper deals with procedural issues related to the possibility of tied votes in fourth-century Athens and with the questions of court practice, recording, and rhetorical reuse of votes by ballot. It aims to provide a comprehensive discussion of all cases of nearly split judicial panels in Athens. It examines, first, the problems related to Aeschines’ statement (3.252) about an equal distribution of votes happening in a system with an uneven n…
The Organization of Evidence in Athenian Courts: Containers, Seals and the Management of Documents
This article reconstructs the system of storage, organization and presentation of written evidence in Athenian courts of the Classical period, with wider implications for the discussion about oral and written culture in Classical Greece and legal professionalism in Athenian democracy. It explores court speakers’ references to an assumed order of documents, their storage in containers called echinoi, and verbal presentation by the court secretary.…
Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature: Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards
Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean
A Civic Style: The Use of μετέχειν Metaphors in Athenian Oratory
This paper examines the language of ‘sharing in the polis ’ common in Greek legal and political discourse, with a particular emphasis on its use in Athenian oratory. It explores the conceptual metaphors related to various forms of engagement in the socio-political framework of the city-state, such as μετέχειν τῆς πόλεως and μετεῖναι τῆς πόλεως (“having a share in the polis ”), μετέχειν τῶν τῆς πόλεως (“having a share in the affairs of the polis ”…
Φράζειν as a Legal Procedure: A Redundant Emendation to Demosthenes 22.27
In his prosecution speech Against Androtion, written for a public trial in the 350s bce, Demosthenes paints a picture of wide-ranging flexibility in the Athenian laws,1 and in reply to the defendant's procedural objections, he lists many different legal procedures available to volunteer prosecutors. The passage in Mervin Dilts's (OCT, 2005) edition of the text runs as follows: ' . . . . ' , , , * . .2 * Mss SAFY: Weil You are [physically] strong …
Discourses of Identity in the Ancient World: Preliminary Remarks
What does fashion have in common with citizenship and punishment?More than meets the eye, as the five contributors to this issue of Polis show.1 All three may be seen as diverse manifestations of the same phenomenon: a person's or a group's identity.This phenomenon, approached from a variety of angles, is the main theme linking our contributions.While their focus is primarily on the literary sources of ancient Greece, the contributors also ventur…
The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
Living as One Wishes” in Athens: The (Anti-)Democratic Polemics
N THE LONG-RUNNING DEBATE about Greek political ideals and the extent of individual liberty in the Athenian democracy, scholars have taken numerous positions, not infrequently founded upon Aristotle's systematization of constitutions. This classification rested upon the philosopher's view of democracyor its "extreme" form, also found in Athens-as a disorderly, unlawful polity based on unrestrained freedom. This article aims to question this influ…
The Greeks in a Changing World: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions-Introduction
Most of the contributions presented in this Special Issue originated in the workshop “What’s Not New in the New Europe: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions,” at ISSEI’s 15th International Conferenc
The European Family and Athenian Fatherland: Political Metaphors Ancient and Modern
This article explores the role and modes of operation of metaphorical framing in ancient Greek and modern European and American political discourse. It looks at how concepts such as citizenship, ownership, family, morality, finance, sport, war, domination, human life, and animals are used to reframe political issues in ways promoted by the speaker, and how they may continue to be reshaped in the ongoing political discourse. The analysis of exampl…
"The Polish Nobility's "Golden Freedom: On the Ancient Roots of a Political Idea
This essay traces the Greek and Roman roots of Polish sixteenth- to eighteenth-century political thought by discussing the Polish nobility’s concept of the “Golden Freedom” (L. aurea libertas). By focusing on the Roman and the Greek concepts of liberty and the mixed constitution, it argues that the Golden Freedom, a notion central to the Polish-Lithuanian nobility’s self-identification, was based on Roman political ideals and practices that were …
Discourses of Identity in the Ancient World: Preliminary Remarks
What does fashion have in common with citizenship and punishment?More than meets the eye, as the five contributors to this issue of Polis show.1 All three may be seen as diverse manifestations of the same phenomenon: a person's or a group's identity.This phenomenon, approached from a variety of angles, is the main theme linking our contributions.While their focus is primarily on the literary sources of ancient Greece, the contributors also ventur…
Living as One Wishes” in Athens: The (Anti-)Democratic Polemics
N THE LONG-RUNNING DEBATE about Greek political ideals and the extent of individual liberty in the Athenian democracy, scholars have taken numerous positions, not infrequently founded upon Aristotle's systematization of constitutions. This classification rested upon the philosopher's view of democracyor its "extreme" form, also found in Athens-as a disorderly, unlawful polity based on unrestrained freedom. This article aims to question this influ…
The Organization of Evidence in Athenian Courts: Containers, Seals and the Management of Documents
This article reconstructs the system of storage, organization and presentation of written evidence in Athenian courts of the Classical period, with wider implications for the discussion about oral and written culture in Classical Greece and legal professionalism in Athenian democracy. It explores court speakers’ references to an assumed order of documents, their storage in containers called echinoi, and verbal presentation by the court secretary.…
Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean
The Greeks in a Changing World: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions-Introduction
Most of the contributions presented in this Special Issue originated in the workshop “What’s Not New in the New Europe: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions,” at ISSEI’s 15th International Conferenc
"The Polish Nobility's "Golden Freedom: On the Ancient Roots of a Political Idea
This essay traces the Greek and Roman roots of Polish sixteenth- to eighteenth-century political thought by discussing the Polish nobility’s concept of the “Golden Freedom” (L. aurea libertas). By focusing on the Roman and the Greek concepts of liberty and the mixed constitution, it argues that the Golden Freedom, a notion central to the Polish-Lithuanian nobility’s self-identification, was based on Roman political ideals and practices that were …
The European Family and Athenian Fatherland: Political Metaphors Ancient and Modern
This article explores the role and modes of operation of metaphorical framing in ancient Greek and modern European and American political discourse. It looks at how concepts such as citizenship, ownership, family, morality, finance, sport, war, domination, human life, and animals are used to reframe political issues in ways promoted by the speaker, and how they may continue to be reshaped in the ongoing political discourse. The analysis of exampl…
Living as One Wishes” in Athens: The (Anti-)Democratic Polemics
N THE LONG-RUNNING DEBATE about Greek political ideals and the extent of individual liberty in the Athenian democracy, scholars have taken numerous positions, not infrequently founded upon Aristotle's systematization of constitutions. This classification rested upon the philosopher's view of democracyor its "extreme" form, also found in Athens-as a disorderly, unlawful polity based on unrestrained freedom. This article aims to question this influ…
The Greeks in a Changing World: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions-Introduction
Most of the contributions presented in this Special Issue originated in the workshop “What’s Not New in the New Europe: Ancient Answers to Modern Questions,” at ISSEI’s 15th International Conferenc
The Making of Identities in Athenian Oratory
Discourses of Identity in the Ancient World: Preliminary Remarks
What does fashion have in common with citizenship and punishment?More than meets the eye, as the five contributors to this issue of Polis show.1 All three may be seen as diverse manifestations of the same phenomenon: a person's or a group's identity.This phenomenon, approached from a variety of angles, is the main theme linking our contributions.While their focus is primarily on the literary sources of ancient Greece, the contributors also ventur…
A Civic Style: The Use of μετέχειν Metaphors in Athenian Oratory
This paper examines the language of ‘sharing in the polis ’ common in Greek legal and political discourse, with a particular emphasis on its use in Athenian oratory. It explores the conceptual metaphors related to various forms of engagement in the socio-political framework of the city-state, such as μετέχειν τῆς πόλεως and μετεῖναι τῆς πόλεως (“having a share in the polis ”), μετέχειν τῶν τῆς πόλεως (“having a share in the affairs of the polis ”…
Φράζειν as a Legal Procedure: A Redundant Emendation to Demosthenes 22.27
In his prosecution speech Against Androtion, written for a public trial in the 350s bce, Demosthenes paints a picture of wide-ranging flexibility in the Athenian laws,1 and in reply to the defendant's procedural objections, he lists many different legal procedures available to volunteer prosecutors. The passage in Mervin Dilts's (OCT, 2005) edition of the text runs as follows: ' . . . . ' , , , * . .2 * Mss SAFY: Weil You are [physically] strong …
Friendship in Ancient Greek Thought and Literature: Essays in Honour of Chris Carey and Michael J. Edwards
Citizenship in Antiquity: Civic Communities in the Ancient Mediterranean
Acquitted/Convicted by a Single Vote: Aeschines 3.252 and Vote Counts in Athenian Oratory
This paper deals with procedural issues related to the possibility of tied votes in fourth-century Athens and with the questions of court practice, recording, and rhetorical reuse of votes by ballot. It aims to provide a comprehensive discussion of all cases of nearly split judicial panels in Athens. It examines, first, the problems related to Aeschines’ statement (3.252) about an equal distribution of votes happening in a system with an uneven n…
The Organization of Evidence in Athenian Courts: Containers, Seals and the Management of Documents
This article reconstructs the system of storage, organization and presentation of written evidence in Athenian courts of the Classical period, with wider implications for the discussion about oral and written culture in Classical Greece and legal professionalism in Athenian democracy. It explores court speakers’ references to an assumed order of documents, their storage in containers called echinoi, and verbal presentation by the court secretary.…
How Does Lycurgus Keep to His Point? Legal and Rhetorical Relevance in Against Leocrates
The Concept of Sharing in the Polis: Its Origins and Early Developments
This article revisits the origins and development of the language of ‘sharing’ (in particular, the verbs metechein, meteinai, metadidonai, and metalambanein) in literary sources, situating it within broader debates on citizenship, political participation, and the development of abstract language. I argue that scholarly emphasis on the distinction between metechein tēs poleōs and metechein tēs politeias risks obscuring a broader semantic continuum…
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