The Honors for Themistocles after Salamis

Jordan, Borimir

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“…23 Miller notes, "Equality of speech ensures that natural talent will have the chance to be heard and if sufficiently developed, recognized and honored by the demos" (2001,412). 24 Frost (1968); Jordan (1988). 25 See Moles (2002, 43-8) for an overview of Themistocles's character as well as a survey of scholarly controversy it occasions.…”

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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria

Rathnam

2022

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Popular discourse about freedom of speech tends to default to the metaphor of the marketplace of ideas, notwithstanding empirical evidence undermining this concept. Its persistence illustrates the profound attachment freedom of speech inspires, despite the difficulty of justifying it in epistemic terms. I suggest that the ancient Greek historian Herodotus offers a compelling alternative to the marketplace metaphor with his account of isegoria at Athens. In Herodotus’s telling, Athenian equal right of speech is worthwhile not because of its effects on speech but because of its effect on political culture; equal speech energizes the Athenians and Athens. He thus offers a nonepistemic defense of the right to speak, defending it instead in terms of power and belonging. Yet his account also highlights how Athenian equal speech unleashes political harms and therefore offers a way to defend free speech without minimizing its dangers. Herodotus thus helps us productively reframe contemporary free speech debates.

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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria

Rathnam

2022

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“…11.344-49 35. On Themistocles' honors in Sparta see Blösel 2004: 323-38;Jordan 1988. It might be no coincidence that this extraordinary procession went to the border with Tegea, one of Sparta's more restive "allies" in the early 5th century (Hdt.…”

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The Authority of Telemachus

Gottesman

2014

Classical Antiquity

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The role of Telemachus in the Odyssey is a perennial puzzle. This paper argues that Telemachus must reconstruct authority in Ithaca in order to present the death of the suitors as a lawful execution rather than as an extra-legal murder. This is part of the Odyssey's strategy to exonerate Odysseus from any possible blame. The job falls to Telemachus because in the Odyssey authority is premised on personal relationships, and the suitors simply do not know Odysseus. The construction of authority occurs in a sympotic and domestic arena where Telemachus competes against the suitors to assert control over the key social practices of marriage (gamos), transportation (pompê), and hospitality (xeinia).

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An Archaeology of Ancient Sparta with Reference to Laconia and Messenia

Cavanagh¹

2017

A Companion to Sparta

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The Honors for Themistocles after Salamis

Cited by 7 publications

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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria

The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria

The Authority of Telemachus

An Archaeology of Ancient Sparta with Reference to Laconia and Messenia

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