Robert W Wallace
Biographic Data
| ID | 3623005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert W Wallace |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert W |
| FAMILY NAME | Wallace |
| SIGNATURE | WALLACE R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northwestern University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 37 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 37 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Law, Freedom, and the Concept of Citizens’ Rights in Democratic Athens
Revolutions and a New Order in Solonian Athens and Archaic Greece
“People’s Power” and Egalitarian Trends in Archaic Greece
Testimonia and Commentary
Extract Except for two apparent quotations in secondary narratives (A 9 [cf. D 1] and B 1), no words of Damon are extant (see Appendix 1). Therefore I list all passages mentioning him as testimonia not fragmenta. Testimonia are classified by subject: (A) biographical reports, including (i) deme, (ii) teachers, (iii) students and associates, (iv) miscellaneous, (v) ostracism; (B) Damon’s musical and metrical theories; (C) his followers; (D) some p…
Conclusion
A leading fifth-century Athenian intellectual, Damon first studied the emotional, behavioural, and hence social and political effects of music and poetic metre. He also described and named various harmoniai (‘scales’), rhythms, and poetic metres, and he was a teacher and wise counsellor to Athens’ leading politicians Perikles and Nikias, paying the price for these political entanglements by being ostracized from Athens. The future reception of hi…
Êthos theories of music and poetic metre
This chapter begins with Damon’s work on the psychological, behavioural, and hence social and political affects of music and poetic metre, together with parallel fifth-century work on rhetoric and the physical environment. It argues that harmoniai (‘musical scales’) themselves were not affective, concluding that affect derived from variations within scales, for example of pitch and tempo, which Plato called tropoi (‘styles’), linked with Damon. S…
Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Perikles' Athens
Fifth-century Athens' most important music theorist and the teacher and political counselor of Perikles, Damon was the first to study music's psychological, behavioural, and political effects, profoundly influencing debates on music theory throughout antiquity. Called by Isokrates the most intelligent Athenian of his age, Damon worked alongside Perikles during the most vibrant decades of Athens' democracy, promoting democratic political reforms a…
Courage in the Democratic Polis: Ideology and Critique in Classical Athens, written by Ryan K. Balot
Sophokles’ Lucky Day: Antigone
Erga-Logoi. Rivista di storia, letteratura, diritto e cultura dell'antichità is a peer-reviewed open-access journal of ancient history, literature, law and culture, as broadly conceived in geographical and chronological terms
Damon
Damon (ca. 500–after 415 bce ) was fifth‐century Athens' most important theorist of music and poetic meter, and a principal teacher and political counselor of Perikles (Plut. Per . 4.9).
Aisymnetes
Aisymneteai were obscure, mainly Archaic officials or rulers seemingly associated with the demos and mediation; the etymology is unknown. Among Homer's Phaeacians nine aisymnetai, demioi (“from the people”), “managed [ presseskon ] everything well in contests/ gatherings” ( Od . 8.258–60). Homer's imperfect verb indicates that they were not ad hoc; despite scholastic suggestions, nowhere do they arbitrate contests (contrast brabeus; Achilles in I…
Electrum, electrum coinage
Electrum (lit. “amber”) a natural pale‐yellow alloy of gold and silver (with trace copper), is found especially in Lydia's Pactolus and Hermos rivers in western central Asia Minor.
Apophasis
In classical Athenian legal and constitutional contexts, apophainein (“make known”, “report”) was used generally of reports to official bodies.
Sophists, G reece
A term of otherwise broad range (including doctors and athletes), sophistês came to designate a series of public intellectuals, teaching and offering wise counsel to Greek communities and their elites ca. 600–400 BCE . Never ivory‐tower philosophers (a type invented by Plato), the first sophistai , later called the “seven sophistai ,” including Thales and Solon, cultivated practical wisdom, even cunning intelligence ( mêtis ), and moral rectitude…
Dikastes
A dikastes was a “lay‐judge” (pl. dikastai ), convening in a dikasterion (“justice place”), and charged with hearing courtroom speeches and laws, deciding the facts, and passing sentence, in most court cases ( see Areopagos) in classical Athens.
Areopagos
A rocky outcropping below Athens' Acropolis, the Areios Pagos (in early Greek, “solid hill,” later by popular etymology “hill of Ares”) included the site of a shrine to the Erinyes, underworld deities of the family curse, an early venue for homicide trials. It also became the site of a council with at least potentially important powers, removed in 462/1 bce . From the later fifth century a symbol for conservatives of pre‐democratic government, du…
Aspasia
Athens' most famous and misunderstood woman, Aspasia of Miletos was the beloved of Athens' democratic leader Perikles from ca. 450 until his death in 429.
Ephialtes
Ephialtes was an Athenian democratic politician in the 460s ([Arist.] Ath. Pol . 25.1; 28.2 calls him leader of the dêmos ) but is poorly documented, as is the Areopaos Council that he reformed.
Tecmessa’s Legacy: Valuing Outsiders In Athens’ Democracy
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Charismatic Leaders
This chapter contains sections titled: Elites in Crisis Tyrants Lawgivers Sages Conclusion
Revolutions and a New Order in Solonian Athens and Archaic Greece
This chapter discusses the history of political and legal reform, mass revolution, and the reports of various people's governments in Greece during the archaic period. Its larger focus on Athens is influenced by the state of their evidence, meager in any case but more extensive for that city, and by Athens' importance in the history of democracy. Economic problems drove some dependent farmers to breaking point. Some were sold abroad into slavery.…
“People's Power” and Egalitarian Trends in Archaic Greece
Democracy is signified through institutions, practices, mentalities, and ultimately ideologies. These different components of democracy in Greece reached their fullest development in the fifth and fourth centuries. Democracy means that all citizens, the whole demos, determine policies and exercise control through assembly, council, and courts, and that political leaders, attempting to shape public opinion, are subordinate to the demos. With certa…
Plato’s Sophists, Intellectual History after 450, and Sokrates
A series of figures whom Plato called “the sophists” were among the most prominent intellectuals working in Athens during the second half of the fifth century. By a traditional consensus based largely on his testimony, the sophists were traveling wisdom professors for hire, especially in the art of rhetoric. Plato's principal sophists include Protagoras of Abdera, Gorgias of Leontini, Prodikos of Keos, Hippias of Elis, and Thrasymachos of Chalced…
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open…
Law, Attic Comedy, and the Regulation of Comic Speech
Athens' Old and New Comedy illuminate that city's laws and legal practices in contrasting ways, reflecting political and social differences between the fifth and fourth centuries and shifting literary foci. Surviving chiefly in the plays of Aristophanes (active 427-388), Old Comedy pushed to its limits Athens' robust democracy, uncensored speech, and unrestrained freedom. These plays satirized many aspects of contemporary society, including polit…
Transitions to Empire: Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor of E. Badian
Charmides, Agariste and Damon: Andokides 1.16
In De myst . 1.11–18 (see also 1.25), Andokides reports a series of four judicial denunciations (μην⋯σεις), made before the Athenians on four separate occasions in 415 B.c. , concerning profanations of the Eleusinian Mysteries. After statements from the slave Andromachos and the metic Teukros, ‘a third denunciation followed. The wife of Alkmaionides, who had also been the wife of Damon, a woman named Agariste, made a denunciation that in the hous…
The Origin of Electrum Coinage
Explanations for the introduction of electrum coinage are of two main types: arguments of practical convenience, based on the premise that the standardized weights of coins eliminated the need for weighing bullion at each transaction; and metallurgical arguments that the manufacture of coins only from electrum, with its variable gold content, was a means either for the state to deceive the public and make a profit, or for private issuers to guara…
The Organization of Family Care for Impaired Elderly
Although families currently provide the bulk of care for aged relatives, demographic changes affecting family structure and documentation of the negative effects of caregiving have resulted in reservations about its continued prevalence. The purpose of this research was to examine the assumptions underlying these reservations as well as the notion that caregiving is facilitated by a large and active support network. In contrast to previous resear…
Reconstructing Damon: Music, Wisdom Teaching, and Politics in Perikles' Athens
Fifth-century Athens' most important music theorist and the teacher and political counselor of Perikles, Damon was the first to study music's psychological, behavioural, and political effects, profoundly influencing debates on music theory throughout antiquity. Called by Isokrates the most intelligent Athenian of his age, Damon worked alongside Perikles during the most vibrant decades of Athens' democracy, promoting democratic political reforms a…
Starting a department and getting it under way: Sociology at Columbia University, 1891?1914
The Athenian Proeispherontes
Sophokles’ Lucky Day: Antigone
Erga-Logoi. Rivista di storia, letteratura, diritto e cultura dell'antichità is a peer-reviewed open-access journal of ancient history, literature, law and culture, as broadly conceived in geographical and chronological terms
The Organization of Family Care for Impaired Elderly
Although families currently provide the bulk of care for aged relatives, demographic changes affecting family structure and documentation of the negative effects of caregiving have resulted in reservations about its continued prevalence. The purpose of this research was to examine the assumptions underlying these reservations as well as the notion that caregiving is facilitated by a large and active support network. In contrast to previous resear…
The Origin of Electrum Coinage
Explanations for the introduction of electrum coinage are of two main types: arguments of practical convenience, based on the premise that the standardized weights of coins eliminated the need for weighing bullion at each transaction; and metallurgical arguments that the manufacture of coins only from electrum, with its variable gold content, was a means either for the state to deceive the public and make a profit, or for private issuers to guara…
The bioflavonoid quercetin inhibits neutrophil degranulation, superoxide production, and the phosphorylation of specific neutrophil proteins
The Athenian Proeispherontes
The Areopagos Council, to 307 B.C
The struggle of a department: Columbia sociology in the 1920s
Charmides, Agariste and Damon: Andokides 1.16
In De myst . 1.11–18 (see also 1.25), Andokides reports a series of four judicial denunciations (μην⋯σεις), made before the Athenians on four separate occasions in 415 B.c. , concerning profanations of the Eleusinian Mysteries. After statements from the slave Andromachos and the metic Teukros, ‘a third denunciation followed. The wife of Alkmaionides, who had also been the wife of Damon, a woman named Agariste, made a denunciation that in the hous…
Starting a department and getting it under way: Sociology at Columbia University, 1891?1914
Marginality and Dissent in Twentieth-Century American Sociology: The Case of Elizabeth Briant Lee and Alfred McClung Lee. John F. Galliher , James M. Galliher
Law, Freedom, and the Concept of Citizens' Rights in Democratic Athens
Transitions to Empire: Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor of E. Badian
Damon of Oa: A Music Theorist Ostracized?
This chapter examines the evidence for the career of Damon of Oa, music theorist and friend of Pericles, who was said to have been ostracised for his dangerous activities. It defends that tradition, arguing that music and politics were intimately connected in 5th-century Athens. The sources suggest that Damon developed what was later called the ethos theory of music which believed in the power of music to influence character and behaviour. Given …
Law, Attic Comedy, and the Regulation of Comic Speech
Athens' Old and New Comedy illuminate that city's laws and legal practices in contrasting ways, reflecting political and social differences between the fifth and fourth centuries and shifting literary foci. Surviving chiefly in the plays of Aristophanes (active 427-388), Old Comedy pushed to its limits Athens' robust democracy, uncensored speech, and unrestrained freedom. These plays satirized many aspects of contemporary society, including polit…
Revolutions and a New Order in Solonian Athens and Archaic Greece
This chapter discusses the history of political and legal reform, mass revolution, and the reports of various people's governments in Greece during the archaic period. Its larger focus on Athens is influenced by the state of their evidence, meager in any case but more extensive for that city, and by Athens' importance in the history of democracy. Economic problems drove some dependent farmers to breaking point. Some were sold abroad into slavery.…
“People's Power” and Egalitarian Trends in Archaic Greece
Democracy is signified through institutions, practices, mentalities, and ultimately ideologies. These different components of democracy in Greece reached their fullest development in the fifth and fourth centuries. Democracy means that all citizens, the whole demos, determine policies and exercise control through assembly, council, and courts, and that political leaders, attempting to shape public opinion, are subordinate to the demos. With certa…
Plato’s Sophists, Intellectual History after 450, and Sokrates
A series of figures whom Plato called “the sophists” were among the most prominent intellectuals working in Athens during the second half of the fifth century. By a traditional consensus based largely on his testimony, the sophists were traveling wisdom professors for hire, especially in the art of rhetoric. Plato's principal sophists include Protagoras of Abdera, Gorgias of Leontini, Prodikos of Keos, Hippias of Elis, and Thrasymachos of Chalced…
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles
Mid-fifth-century Athens saw the development of the Athenian empire, the radicalization of Athenian democracy through the empowerment of poorer citizens, the adornment of the city through a massive and expensive building program, the classical age of Athenian tragedy, the assembly of intellectuals offering novel approaches to philosophical and scientific issues, and the end of the Spartan-Athenian alliance against Persia and the beginning of open…
Charismatic Leaders
This chapter contains sections titled: Elites in Crisis Tyrants Lawgivers Sages Conclusion
Damon
Damon (ca. 500–after 415 bce ) was fifth‐century Athens' most important theorist of music and poetic meter, and a principal teacher and political counselor of Perikles (Plut. Per . 4.9).
Aisymnetes
Aisymneteai were obscure, mainly Archaic officials or rulers seemingly associated with the demos and mediation; the etymology is unknown. Among Homer's Phaeacians nine aisymnetai, demioi (“from the people”), “managed [ presseskon ] everything well in contests/ gatherings” ( Od . 8.258–60). Homer's imperfect verb indicates that they were not ad hoc; despite scholastic suggestions, nowhere do they arbitrate contests (contrast brabeus; Achilles in I…
Electrum, electrum coinage
Electrum (lit. “amber”) a natural pale‐yellow alloy of gold and silver (with trace copper), is found especially in Lydia's Pactolus and Hermos rivers in western central Asia Minor.
Apophasis
In classical Athenian legal and constitutional contexts, apophainein (“make known”, “report”) was used generally of reports to official bodies.
Sophists, G reece
A term of otherwise broad range (including doctors and athletes), sophistês came to designate a series of public intellectuals, teaching and offering wise counsel to Greek communities and their elites ca. 600–400 BCE . Never ivory‐tower philosophers (a type invented by Plato), the first sophistai , later called the “seven sophistai ,” including Thales and Solon, cultivated practical wisdom, even cunning intelligence ( mêtis ), and moral rectitude…
Dikastes
A dikastes was a “lay‐judge” (pl. dikastai ), convening in a dikasterion (“justice place”), and charged with hearing courtroom speeches and laws, deciding the facts, and passing sentence, in most court cases ( see Areopagos) in classical Athens.
Areopagos
A rocky outcropping below Athens' Acropolis, the Areios Pagos (in early Greek, “solid hill,” later by popular etymology “hill of Ares”) included the site of a shrine to the Erinyes, underworld deities of the family curse, an early venue for homicide trials. It also became the site of a council with at least potentially important powers, removed in 462/1 bce . From the later fifth century a symbol for conservatives of pre‐democratic government, du…
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