Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum

August Boeckh Lecture, Februar 2014

Plakat Boeckh-Lecture Sorabji 2013

Gabriel Herman
(Hebrew University)

Were the Athenians nice?

 

Zeit:

Mittwoch, 12. Februar 2014, 18.30 Uhr

Ort:

Theologische Fakultät

Burgstr. 26, Hörsaal 013

 

Many 20th Century scholars would have answered this question in the negative. Rather than nice, it was thought appropriate to characterize the Greeks in general and the Athenians in particular by terms such as ‘vindictive’, ‘violent’, ‘feuding’, et cet. I will present evidence that the distinguishing features of the moral culture developed under Athenian democracy were rather different.