... the early Stoics via Epictetus to the Stoics of the late second century, freedom and responsibility are connected with ethics. In this context, the most important conceptual distinction is between what depends on us (eph’hēmin) and freedom (eleutheria). In Stoic philosophy...

...In Ant. 14. 77, speaking of the Roman conquest and dismemberment of the Hasmonean state in 63 bce, Josephus complains that ‘we lost our freedom and became subject to the Romans’. That is, eleutheria and Roman rule are incompatible. Three books later...

...Samuel Beckett and the Theatre of the Witness: Pain in Postwar Francophone Drama. Hannah Simpson, Oxford University Press. © Hannah Simpson 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192863263.003.0002 This chapter reads Beckett’s first completed postwar playscript Eleutheria...

... Romana) in the second century b.c. IG Sherk Documents Syll 3 Liv Strabo Freedom eleutheria Philip V Quinctius Flamininus T Sparta country city state the Spartans Thessaly the Thessalians Dig Paus Pliny the Elder NH Serv ad Aen advance from the east after the battle of Cynoscephalae...

...Plato’s term eleutheria may be translated as “freedom” because it signifies the same triadic relation as the English term—freedom of an agent from impediments to a goal. While it is generally recognized that Plato rejects the democratic idea of personal freedom, it is often...

... of modern scholarly and philosophical interpretations of ancient Greek liberty with particular reference to the work of Benjamin Constant and Isaiah Berlin and its reception (1.1 and 1.2). Turning to the ancient evidence, it examines presentations of eleutheria (liberty) in Attic oratory...

... Greek poleis, revelling in their notional eleutheria and autonomia, were obviously to be preferred to belligerent epicentres for rebellion waiting to transfer allegiance to another Diadoch in the endless see-saw of political opportunity. Earlier...

...This essay examines Samuel Beckett's discovery of theater, a public form that would make his career, by focusing on two of his works: Human Wishes (1937) and Eleutheria (1947). It considers how Beckett began research for a play about Samuel Johnson; his extensive...

... Eleutheria The battle of Chaeronea, the unintended result of Aeschines’s defense of the golden shields in 340/39 bce, made Philip of Macedonia the most powerful man in the Greek world, but the peoples whose destinies he now controlled were hardly united under his leadership. ¹ Philip...