European History: Lessons for the 21st Century.

Essays from the 3rd International Conference on European History

Edited by Gregory T. Papanikos & Nicholas C.J. Pappas

ISBN: 978-960-6672-10-1, 400 pages, Hardback

First published in 2006 by ATINER

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Table of Contents

 

 

Preface

G. Papanikos

i

 

Introduction and Acknowledgements

N. Pappas

iii

 

PART I:  Introductory Essay

1

1.

European History:  Lessons for the 21st Century

G. Papanikos

3

 

PART II: Political Aspects of Ancient Athens

9

2.

Athenian Politics after Solon

J. Hawke

11

3.

Athenian Conspiracies: Rhetoric and Psychology

J. Roisman

27

4.

Mantitheos and the Dokimasia (Lysias XVI)

M. Miller

33

 

PART III: Cultural Aspects of Ancient Athens

39

5.

Drama and Civic Education in Classical Greece

A. Avidov

41

6.

Phintias and the Leagros Workshop

M. Eisman

51

7.

An Athenian Alchemy: The Survival of Athens as a Destination of Refuge for Foreigners at the End of the Roman Republic

D. Wick

65

 

PART IV: War and Politics in Ancient Greece

79

8.

Should Thucydides’ View of the Causes of the Peloponnesian War be Modified?

E. Bozia

81

9.

The Odysseus Syndrome: Ambush and Surprise in Ancient Greek Warfare

R. Sheldon

91

 

 

PART V: Women in the Ancient World

107

10.

Mutton Dressed as Lamb: Beauty, Sex, and the Aging Woman in Classical Greece and Rome

K. Bea

109

11.

A Material Girl in a Material World: Prostitution and the Finley Model.

J. Evans

119

12.

Rational Goddess/Pagan Witch: History and Hypatia from the Fourth Century AD through Modernity

J. de Medicci

135

 

PART VI: Christianity in Late Antiquity

143

13.

Milites Christi Revisited: A Reexamination of Christian Leadership in the Late Antique West

W. Roberts

145

14.

Chrysostom and Ambrose: Towards a New Understanding of the Career of John Chrysostom

J. Stephens

159

 

PART VII: The Classical Tradition in Modern Europe

167

15.

Republican Turkey’s Acquaintance with World Classics

S. Akgün

169

16.

Conceptions of Democracy: The Acropolis and the Imagined Past

S. Price

187

17.

Reclaiming the Spirit of Hippocrates? The History of European Medicine 1850-1950

P. Starns

199

 

PART VIII: Urban Form in European History

209

18.

The Suburbium of Ancient Rome and Beyond

G. Adams

211

19.

The Return of the Prodigal Son: The Papal Entry of 1377 and the Roman Topography of Contest

J. Rollo-Koster

227

20.

The Influences of Military Aspects on the City Form: Evaluating the Trace Italienne

Z. Aktuna

237

 

PART IX:  Society and Culture in Early Modern Europe

249

 

21.

Comings and Goings: The Fate of the Jews in Late 15th/Early 16th Century Iberia

R. Garfield

251

22.

Enrico Caterino Davila, Condottiere and Historian

Z. Gredel-Manuele

257

23.

Encrypted Humanism: Reading Michelangelo’s Hidden Images in the Sistine Chapel

J. G. Rogers

269

 

PART X:  Cultural and Societal Elements in Modern Europe

285

24.

The Enlightenment Representative Gheorghe Sincai (1754-1816): Culture and History in Transylvania of the 18th Century

A.M. Roman-Negoi

287

25.

Manchester, England:  Apex of Industry, Cradle of Strife

M. E. Leuver

301

26.

An Introduction to Cultural History: Jacob Burckhardt and the Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen

B.Saxe

311

27.

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov: A Useful Tool for the Teaching of Social History

L. Williames

319

 

PART XI:  Europe in Crisis in the Early 20th Century

333

28.

Britain, Greece and the Offer of Northern Epirus, August 1914 - December 1915

N. Guy

 

335

29.

The French Economic-Industrial Mobilisation During World War I (1914-1918)

I.D. Salavrakos

345

30.

Laying the Foundations of Hell: Soviet - German Military Negotiations, 1919-1922

V. Vourkoutiotis

363

31.

A ‘Liberating Effect’? Remarks on the Film the Downfall and Recent Manifestations of Collective Memory in Germany

J. Pelzer

371

 

Contributors to this Volume

377