Sviatoslav Dmitriev
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 974103 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Sviatoslav Dmitriev |
| PRENOMES | Sviatoslav |
| SOBRENOME | Dmitriev |
| ASSINATURA | DMITRIEV S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ball State University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 59 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 101 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 59 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Aristoteles Decree and Athens’ Imperialist Policies in the Fourth Century
Rejecting the widespread view of the Aristoteles Decree as the founding charter of the Second Athenian League allows us to reconsider the traditionally accepted date of the League’s foundation and to readjust the standard perception of how it was organized. As a public-relations statement and a tool of Athens’ imperialist policies, the Aristoteles Decree both intimidated the Greeks into joining the League and demolished the military alliances of …
Citizenship for sale
Reexamining inscriptional and literary sources on grants of politeia by ancient Greek cities in exchange for money allows us to rethink the commonly accepted interpretation of these grants as the sale of citizenship. This article argues that such grants actually reciprocated benefactions that involved a financial expenditure in the interests of the city. These grants could be interpreted as a sale of politeia , similar to today’s grants of citize…
St. Arsenius as Imperial Paideutēs
This article responds to the diversity of opinions surrounding the reasons for Arsenius's appointment as the teacher of the future emperors Arcadius and Honorius, his life and status in the palace, and the length of his duties. By re-examining corresponding sources and expanding evidence to include the texts never before used for this purpose, this article argues that Arsenius was expected to provide the two princes with traditional paideia combi…
Texts and contexts
This chapter analyzes how rhetorical training and the literary culture used and abused historical evidence during the Roman imperial and Byzantine eras to maintain cultural continuity insofar as intellectual life and education ( paideia ) remained rooted in material from classical Greece. The largely uniform rhetorical curriculum helped to create a class of educated people, the pepaideumenoi , with similar social norms, cultural tastes, and intel…
History, rhetoric, and legends
This chapter examines the role of the rhetorical Demades in debates and interpretations of Homeric epics and the Persian Wars—as well as other less monumental episodes from Greek history. Homeric heroes and themes substantiated many types of progymnasmata exercises—including synkrisis , or comparison (between heroes, or between them and other characters), confirmation, laudation, and invective—and provided rich material for antilogia , approachin…
Making sense of the evidence
The chapter juxtaposes about thirty inscriptional and literary sources purportedly from Demades’s lifetime (although the book suggests dating some of the literary sources to later times) with almost 250 references in the literary texts of different genres from the mid-first century B.C. to the late Byzantine empire, revealing a gap of nearly 300 years between the death of Demades and the time in which most of the available literary evidence about…
Demades the politician
This chapter analyzes how the images of Demades replicated the involvement of the pepaideumenoi in politics: an uneducated nouveau riche of obscure origins and an accidental politician, he proffered an example of the absolute nature of corruption. This image was constructed with the help of the metaphor of Demades consisting of “tongue and guts”—an expression that was retrospectively applied to different political figures—which indicated the self…
Demades’s last years and words
This chapter explicates how later rhetoricians contrived the image of Demades as a participant in the Macedonian domination over Greece to develop the topoi of treason, the role of rhetoric in politics, and a just punishment for one’s betrayal of his city. Rhetorical manifestations of later political agendas explain references to Demades’s oratory “taming” Alexander the Great; his public honors, including a bronze statue; and his “tyranny,” “trea…
Paideia
This chapter elucidates how the fabricated images of Demades helped to affirm the importance of paideia —as education and moral instruction—for the socially privileged position of the pepaideumenoi . The figure of Demades accentuated the ethical and professional rewards of paideia , and especially rhetorical education, in more than one way. He became an example of a persuasive orator who was always able to come up with a witty retort, quickly cap…
Epilogue
The epilogue sums up the steps and ways in which Demades’s traditional image emerged and developed as a rhetorical construct reflecting the educational needs, social norms, and political realities of later centuries. His lack of rhetorical schooling—and method—meant that Demades’s oratory was successful only because of his flattery and subservience. All of this was entirely logical to the pepaideumenoi , who saw one’s oratorical style as correspo…
The art of being earnest
This chapter assesses the methods of later authors who used Demades’s rhetorical images to illustrate relations between Greek cities and the people in power, by focusing on the famous story of Demades’s alleged address to the victorious Philip II after the battle of Chaeronea. Even though three vastly different surviving versions of that story accentuated specific aspects of this form of interaction, they all centered on the importance of properl…
Athenian political rhetoric
This chapter examines how later authors rationalized contemporary realities by projecting them onto late classical Greece, including reshaping the images of famous Athenian leaders: a politically and personally corrupt Demades accentuated Demosthenes’s patriotism and Phocion’s morality. Despite their artificial nature, such views survived into modern works that juxtapose Demades’s cynical opportunism with Demosthenes’s righteous energy and Phocio…
The Orator Demades
This book is the first monograph in English about Demades, an influential Athenian politician from the fourth century B.C. An orator whose fame outlived him for hundreds of years, he was an acquaintance of and a collaborator with many political and military leaders of classical Greece, including the Macedonian king Philip II, his son and successor Alexander III (the Great), and the orator Demosthenes. However, an overwhelming portion of the avail…
War Orphans and Orphans of Democracy in Classical Athens
Angelos Chaniotis. Age of Conquests
Age of Conquests: The Greek World from Alexander to Hadrian, by Angelos Chaniotis, offers a comprehensive overview of the Mediterranean world, with outlets to the north and the east, over the course of five centuries—from the conquests of Alexander the Great to the marked end of the aggressive growth of the Roman Empire during the reign of Hadrian. Chaniotis expands on his War in the Hellenistic World: A Social and Cultural History (2005), both g…
Recycling the Classical Past
The Status of Greek Cities in Roman Reception and Adaptation
This paper illustrates specific ways in which the Romans perceived Greek political practices and terminology, and shows how Roman texts often confused, misinterpreted, and mistranslated Greek political practices and vocabulary when adjusting them to Roman cultural and political realities
The Birth of the Athenian Community
The Birth of the Athenian Community
The Birth of the Athenian Community elucidates the social and political development of Athens in the sixth century, when, as a result of reforms by Solon and Cleisthenes (at the beginning and end of the sixth century, respectively), Athens turned into the most advanced and famous city, or polis, of the entire ancient Greek civilization. Undermining the current dominant approach, which seeks to explain ancient Athens in modern terms, dividing all …
Killing in Style
This article reconsiders divergent accounts of the events leading to the death of Demosthenes, and suggests to explain their coexistence by attributing them to either the historical tradition from Hellenistic times or the rhetorical tradition of the Roman period. The latter should be traced to progymnasmata , or fictional rhetorical compositions, which manipulated historical evidence and continued to surface in the writings of students of rhetori…
The Protection of Slaves in the Athenian Law against hubris
In this article I propose to reinterpret the Athenian law against hubris, arguing that this law protected the whole Athenian household (oikiai), including its slaves, and connecting it with other laws that protected the well-being of households. Since these laws ultimately served the interests of the Athenian community, they could be invoked by any willing qualified Athenian
John Lydus’ political message and the Byzantine idea of imperial rule
On Powers , an antiquarian treatise with a political agenda by John Lydus, an erudite and imperial official in the late fifth and early sixth century, has been interpreted as either a panegyric to the emperor or as a work that was critical not only of Justinian’s rule but of monarchy in general. By reexamining it within the broader context of Byzantine political philosophy, this article proposes to see On Powers as a display of a traditional meri…
Athenian Atimia and Legislation Against Tyranny and Subversion
Following the idea first expressed by Heinrich Swoboda, there is a general perception that the meaning of ἀτιμία in Athens eventually evolved from the original ‘outlawry’, when an ἄτιμος was liable to being deprived of his property and slayed with impunity if he returned to the land from which he had been banished, into a certain limitation on civic status, which has often been rendered as a ‘disfranchisement’. Specific outcomes of this later for…
Autonomy
“Autonomy” ( autonomia ) primarily defined the right of a city to create and use its own laws, whereas “freedom” ( eleutheria ) indicated the city's independence from external domination.
Localism and the Ancient Greek City-State
Hans Beck, professor and chair of Greek history at the University of Munster and adjunct professor in the faculty of arts at McGill University in Montreal, has published extensively on ancient Gree
City Government In Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor examines the social and administrative transformation of Greek society within the early Roman empire, assessing the extent to which the numerous changes in Greek cities during the imperial period ought to be attributed to Roman influence. The topic is crucial to our understanding of the foundations of Roman imperial power because Greek speakers comprised the empire’s second largest population gr…
The Greek Slogan of Freedom and Early Roman Politics in Greece
This book elucidates the ways in which the slogan of freedom emerged and developed into the fundamental principle of Greek diplomacy and politics, before the Romans appropriated and used it to establish their domination over the Mediterranean. Originally employed by the Spartans and Athenians, who used it to subvert each other’s military alliances before and during the Peloponnesian war, the slogan of freedom helped to maintain political and mili…
The rise and quick fall of the theory of ancient economic imperialism
The theory of ancient economic imperialism has declined for two reasons. The first is the absence of any reliable evidence that the politics of ancient states was dictated by economic considerations. Additionally, the usual focus on the Roman provincial system limits the understanding of 'economic imperialism' to that of a 'formal empire' and ignores other ancient societies. The second reason, which so far has been neglected, is the changing visi…
The Birth of the Athenian Community
The Birth of the Athenian Community elucidates the social and political development of Athens in the sixth century, when, as a result of reforms by Solon and Cleisthenes (at the beginning and end of the sixth century, respectively), Athens turned into the most advanced and famous city, or polis, of the entire ancient Greek civilization. Undermining the current dominant approach, which seeks to explain ancient Athens in modern terms, dividing all …
Athenian Atimia and Legislation Against Tyranny and Subversion
Following the idea first expressed by Heinrich Swoboda, there is a general perception that the meaning of ἀτιμία in Athens eventually evolved from the original ‘outlawry’, when an ἄτιμος was liable to being deprived of his property and slayed with impunity if he returned to the land from which he had been banished, into a certain limitation on civic status, which has often been rendered as a ‘disfranchisement’. Specific outcomes of this later for…
Claudius’ Grant of Cilicia to Polemo
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John Lydus’ political message and the Byzantine idea of imperial rule
On Powers , an antiquarian treatise with a political agenda by John Lydus, an erudite and imperial official in the late fifth and early sixth century, has been interpreted as either a panegyric to the emperor or as a work that was critical not only of Justinian’s rule but of monarchy in general. By reexamining it within the broader context of Byzantine political philosophy, this article proposes to see On Powers as a display of a traditional meri…
Attalus’ Request for the Cities of Aenus and Maronea in 167 B.C
Traditions and innovations in the reign of Aurelian
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Οι επωνυμοι and αι επωνυμοι αρχαι in the cities of hellenistic and roman Asia Minor
La magistrature éponyme des cités grecques d'Asie Mineure est ici analysée comme un phénomène lié aux systèmes administratifs. L'auteur soutient que la raison du choix du système de datation des événements particuliers ou des documents par les cités d'Asie Mineure dépendait du niveau de l'administration dont cet événement ou ce document relevait. L'éponyme était un magistrat qui correspondait à ce niveau administratif de la cité. Si le document o…
Three Notes on Attalid History
Claudius’ Grant of Cilicia to Polemo
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Traditions and innovations in the reign of Aurelian
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The Evolution of Municipal Functions
Opinions differ considerably about the effect of the change in the financial and social status of city officials on the character of city offices. Some think that under the Romans the character of Greek city offices was totally different from that in the preceding period, while others speak in favor of a marked continuity . The amount of corresponding evidence from Roman times is much larger than what we have seen in the preceding period.
Individual Cities Miletus, Priene, Samos
During the half century since David Magic noted that the extant documents yield little information about “the details of government and the actual administration of public affairs in the Asian city-states during the Hellenistic period,” not only has the amount of evidence at our disposal increased substantially, but it also has become significantly better known and, on the whole, much more conveniently organized.1 Different Asian cities have left…
Epilogue
Subject Ancient Roman History Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
The Language of Responsibilities
The Greeks did not use Latin in their daily lives. The majority of them did not know it. In Asian cities inscriptions in Latin were set up only by Romans or as copies of Roman documents that were relevant to the affairs of the city. In the provincial period, too, the administration of Asian cities was documented in Greek, and the same words continued to be used as before. It would be natural, therefore, to ask ourselves if the meanings of these w…
The Status of City Officials
The revenues that city offices brought in were used to finance office functions. Any money left over could be spent in various ways, often for the embellishment of the city, together with the display of political loyalty. In Thyatira, Apollodotos, son of Menodotos, performed the generalship and supervised the building of a triple entrance and stoas and dwelling places therein, using the money left over from his office. The people of Metropolis de…
Officials and Municipal Functions
We do not have any direct information about whether or not city officials in Asia were paid. One inscription tells us that the agoranomos Aristarchos, son of Demetrios, from Erythrae, used the proceeds from his office to embellish his city by having a marble altar built. However, this inscription refers to an ex-official. Such proceeds are likely to have come from fines and dues which the agoranomos and probably other city officials had the right…
The Metropoleis
Ancient and modern authors alike refer to Smyrna, Ephesus, and Pergamum as the largest cities, or metropoleL , of Roman Asia, and as competitors for first place in that province. As the largest urban centers, the metropoleis had the most sophisticated administrations, with numerous officials. Therefore, they offer us a much better chance to understand the organization and functioning of Greek city government in provincial Asia. By the amount of a…
Language and Responsibilities
Modern approaches to Greek city administration arc various and, although usually perfectly legitimate from the modern point of view, do not necessarily reflect the approaches of the Greeks themselves. Therefore, in order to understand Greek city administration at the time, it is necessary not only to be acquainted with modern perceptions but also to go directly to the basic features of administrative life in Asian cities. The richness of their ep…
Maps
Subject Ancient Roman History Ancient History (Non-Classical, to 500 CE) Ancient Greek History Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online
Dedication
Rome and New Municipal Functions
Most offices in the cities of Hellenistic Asia survi ed into the provincial period, serving as further evidence for continuity in local administration under the Romans. It is the appearance of new offices that is considered by many to be the most visible result of Roman influence on Greek cities.
Abbreviations
Greek Cities under Hellenistic and Roman Rulers
Many principles and features of city administration in Asia Minor survived intact from the coming of Alexander till the arrival of the Romans. The same words with broad meaning continued to be used, and no administrative terminology in the strict sense was created. Depending on the perspective adopted in a document, offices were classified in more than one way, and officials with various kinds of responsibilities could he placed in the same or di…
Appendix
City Government In Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor
City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor examines the social and administrative transformation of Greek society within the early Roman empire, assessing the extent to which the numerous changes in Greek cities during the imperial period ought to be attributed to Roman influence. The topic is crucial to our understanding of the foundations of Roman imperial power because Greek speakers comprised the empire’s second largest population gr…
The rise and quick fall of the theory of ancient economic imperialism
The theory of ancient economic imperialism has declined for two reasons. The first is the absence of any reliable evidence that the politics of ancient states was dictated by economic considerations. Additionally, the usual focus on the Roman provincial system limits the understanding of 'economic imperialism' to that of a 'formal empire' and ignores other ancient societies. The second reason, which so far has been neglected, is the changing visi…
Attalus’ Request for the Cities of Aenus and Maronea in 167 B.C
The Slogan of Freedom from the King’s Peace to the Pax Romana
The Epilogue outlines general trends in the development of the Greek slogan of freedom from its inception in the fifth century to the Hellenistic period and through its diverse uses by the Romans. Professing their support for Greek freedom gave the Romans a valid excuse for defending their interests in Greece and for claiming a special place in Greek affairs as the “champions of [Greek] freedom” and, therefore, as the “common benefactors” to all …
Roman Policy in Greece and Asia Minor
Chapter 7 studies the principles of Rome’s relationship with individual Greek communities, whose “freedom” consisted of several components: the freedom to keep possessions, freedom from taxes, freedom from being garrisoned, and freedom to use one’s laws. Rome adapted to this complex understanding of freedom in the early second century. Surrendering into the Roman trust (fides) began to be reciprocated by a Roman pledge to preserve the status of i…
Rhodes between Rome and Perseus
Chapter 8 argues against the traditional vision of the stance held by Rhodes in the Third Macedonian war as being simply pro- or anti-Roman. The famous Rhodian attempt to mediate in the war between Rome and King Perseus of Macedonia resulted from the traditional position Rhodes held as the protector of Greek freedom. Because this Rhodian stance in defense of “peace” and “freedom” (advocated by Perseus on the eve of the war) played into Perseus’s …
The Origin of the Roman Slogan of Greek Freedom
Chapter 5 proposes that (1) the idea of using the slogan of freedom came to the Romans during negotiations of the ambassadors from Lampsacus and Smyrna held with the Romans in the autumn of 197; (2) the slogan of freedom was originally included in the senatus consultum at the end of the Second Macedonian war, which Flamininus would largely repeat in his declaration the following year; and (3) protecting Greek freedom offered Rome a much better op…
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