...This chapter concerns the Milesian thinkers and above all Anaximander and the fragment attributed to him. Castoriadis reads the Milesians with emphasis on the conceptual linkage between two pairs of opposing significations, namely chaos/kosmos and hybris...

... hetairesis impiety anger narrative poneria rhetoric children mutilation buggery disgust revulsion shame anger violence homosexuality bdeluria miaria hybris aselgeia This chapter will consider the exploitation of disgust language and emotions in two Demosthenic speeches (22...

...Two of Demosthenes' orations are speeches for the prosecution in cases of assault. In both the opponent is said to be guilty of hybris, but that is not the formal charge. Against Konon includes skilful characterization in a prosecution for aikeia...

... and the anecdotal tradition both to bring out Alcibiades’ domineering behaviour (hybris) and luxurious self-indulgence (tryphe) and also, through a series of shifting focalizations and voices, to characterize the Athenians and the dynamics of their interaction with Alcibiades...

... on it. It is a matter of respect for myself, before it is for my peers, for I am here to succeed and not to fail. But I still need to keep surveillance of the fact that some jobs might be beyond me (harness the hybris) and when I know I have done all I possibly could, and perhaps a bit more, that is it: que...

...) as support for the Spartans. represent hybris aischros irresistible aischros This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...This chapter argues that democratic institutions influenced how the Athenians conceptualised the causes of the Attic Amazonomachy and used them to foster ideas about their own attitude towards hybris. Due to the influence of the state funeral, Lysias’s Funeral Oration...

... later with Plato’s Socrates, but a penetrating and systematic Socratic insight. Xenophanes and Socrates present us with a similar and distinctive philosophical variation of the Greek preoccupation with the specter of hybris, of excess and over-confidence. Both thinkers diagnose a causal...

... and overview of the two speeches and trials. Chapter 4.2 shows how Demosthenes concentrates attention on an extended historical illustration involving Alcibiades to make the point that the jurors must judge Meidias on his own peculiar combination of bad and undemocratic qualities (above all his hybris...

... Athens Sparta Gortyn Code Attic Orators phialai exeleutherikai Attic Stelai hubris/hybris law silver coinage law ...

... in the same speech. The analyses offer insights into the procedure of probole for offences against the festival of the Dionysia, into the law on outrage (hybris), into the Athenian procedures of public and private arbitration and into Athenian legislation on bribery...

...This chapter focuses on Athens’ recovery of the corpses of the Seven against Thebes on behalf of Adrastus. It argues that democratic institutions enabled the Athenians to combine hybris and philanthrōpia and emphasise, downplay, deconstruct or recompose...

... as imperial as those of any age, creating a maddening maze of bondage prefigured by the etchings of Piranesi and the poems of Rimbaud. The three colossal suspension bridges between continents in Istanbul are cases in point, recalling the hybris of Xerxes. bridges De Montalvo Garci Rodríguez films Native...

... (“pandering”) was especially important to the so-called big earners (megalomisthoi), while the prohibition of hybris (“outrage”) provided some safeguard against extreme abuse for even brothel slaves. comparisons cross cultural decriminalization of prostitution laws moral...