News and Society in the Greek PolisUNC Press Books, 1996 - 206 pages Sian Lewis explores the role of news and information in shaping Greek society from the sixth to the fourth centuries, b.c. Applying ideas from the study of modern media to her analysis of the functions of gossip, travel, messengers, inscriptions, and inst |
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Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 News in society | 2 |
2 Defining news | 3 |
3 The significance of news in Greek society | 5 |
4 Approaches | 7 |
News Within the Community | 9 |
1 Reputation | 10 |
2 Information and the citizen | 13 |
2 Criteria for evaluation | 80 |
3 Analysis and response | 93 |
The Assembly | 97 |
1 Symbolic functions of the assembly | 98 |
2 Information and leadership | 102 |
3 The nature of the discussion | 109 |
4 Secrecy within government | 115 |
5 The limitations of the assembly | 119 |
3 Status within the polis | 19 |
News Independent of the Polis | 25 |
1 Travel and news | 27 |
2 Perceptions of other poleis | 46 |
Official Communications | 51 |
1 Heralds inside the polis | 52 |
2 Control of information | 56 |
3 Failures of communication | 60 |
4 Communication outside the polis | 63 |
5 International announcement | 68 |
Unofficial News | 75 |
1 Problems with news | 77 |
News and Writing | 125 |
motivation | 127 |
text and symbol | 133 |
3 Inscriptions and oligarchies | 137 |
4 Inscriptions at Pan Hellenic shrines | 140 |
5 Letters | 142 |
Conclusion | 155 |
Notes | 159 |
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Common terms and phrases
accusations Acharnians Agesilaos Agora Aischines Akropolis Alkibiades ancient ancient Greece Andokides announcement Aristophanes Aristotle army assembly Athenaion Politeia Athenian Athens Attika Boule Cambridge centre character citizens claims communication concern debate decision decree deme democracy demos Demosthenes Diodoros discussed dissemination Ekklesiazusai emphasises envoys Euripides example fact festivals foreign fourth century gossip Greece Greek Greek poleis Greek world herald Herodas Herodotos honour Ibid idea IG iiĀ² important individual inscriptions instance Iphigeneia in Tauris Isokrates kind king letter Literacy Lykourgos Lysias Macedonian Megara messenger military motive Mytilene Nikias official Olympia oral orators panhellenic Pausanias Persian Philip Plutarch poleis polis Political Intelligence proxenia proxenos prytaneis received records role rumour secrecy secret seen sent slaves Sokrates sources Spartan speaker speeches spread Starr status stele story suggests Syracusan Themistokles Theophrastos Theramenes Thucydides tion traders treaties trierarchs women writing written Xenophon Hellenika