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CAMBRIDGE CLASSICAL RECEPTION SEMINAR SERIES: Charles Stocking, ‘Kratos before democracy: force, politics, and signification in Derrida and Homer’
Classics Faculty, Cambridge Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, United KingdomIn Iliad Book 2, Odysseus delivers a speech to the dēmos, which has been quoted extensively throughout antiquity and modernity as a distinctly anti-democratic claim for monarchic sovereignty. He exclaims, “Rule by many lords is not good. Let there be one lord, one king, to whom the son of crooked counseling Kronos has given the […]
Classics and the Now: ‘The Untimely End of Democracy in the Classical Now’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomCarol Atack (Oxford) - 'The Untimely End of Democracy in the Classical Now'