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Availability:In StockContributor:Miriam LeonardSeries:Critical AntiquitiesPublish date:11/28/2025Pages:112
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226843056ISBN-10:022684305XUPC:9780226843056Book Category:History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ancient, History & Surveys, Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCJK2S3SD5
Revolution: Modern Uprisings in Ancient Time
A consideration of how modern revolutions have employed tropes of classical antiquity. Despite its Latin etymology, "revolution" in its modern understanding arguably did not exist in antiquity, and revolution as we know it today is considered by many theorists to be a term born in modernity. While they certainly had times of momentous political upheaval, the Greeks and Romans tended to...
Series: Critical Antiquities
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226843056ISBN-10:022684305XUPC:9780226843056Book Category:History, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:Ancient, History & Surveys, Revolutions, Uprisings & RebellionsBook Topic:Ancient & ClassicalSize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.35 inchesWeight:0.4012Product ID:SCJK2S3SD5
Miriam Leonard is professor of Greek literature and its reception at University College London. She is the author of Athens in Paris, How to Read Ancient Philosophy, Socrates and the Jews, and Tragic Modernities. She is the editor of Derrida and Antiquity and coeditor of Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity (with Joshua Billings) and Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought (with...
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
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