HUMA 1825 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Hubris
14 Dec 2017
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David cohen"s study of law in ancient greece. See pages 85, 87, 90, 105-112: explain how the competition for honour shaped social relations among ancient athenians. See pages 61-65: summarize cohen"s analysis of three of the following orations. For each, identify: (1) what the case is about, (2) what was said in the speeches, and (3) what the case teaches us (in cohen"s view) about agonistic culture in ancient. Athens: demosthenes"s oration in defense of ctesiphon (p. 77-82ff) *, against meidias (pp. 90-102) *: on the murder of erastosthenes (p. 71, against theomnestus (p. 72ff, on the triararchic crown (p. 75ff, apollodorus against nicostratus (p. 102ff, against theocrines (p. 105ff) **these orations are particularly important: explain what envy , sycophancy and hubris meant to the ancient athenian, and how these labels were used.
