{"title":"The Gods of Politics in Early Greek Cities","authors":"M. Détienne","doi":"10.5422/fso/9780823226443.003.0002","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"A have decided to speak of \"the gods\" rather than \"religion,\" and the \"political domain\" (le politique) to identify the specific domain that has been recognized as such (to politikon) ever since Aristotle. As for the earliest Greek cities, they constitute the area of my present fieldwork. No doubt you thought, \"Presumably, he's a Hellenist\" . . . and there is, for heaven's sake, surely nothing shameful about being a Hellenist. All the sanie, I should like to make it clear that, very early on, I was lucky enough to embark upon comparative studies. What kind of comparative stud ies? The kind that involves historians working with anthro pologists, and vice versa. But to work as an anthropologist particularly concerned with the comparativist approaches of ethnologists and historians is more complex than it may ap pear.1 When Hellenists hear of someone \"doing anthropology with the ancient Greeks,\" they manifest irritation, and as for historians?I am thinking of mainstream historians, those of our \"major\" nations of both today and yesterday?they too are usually less than enthusiastic, particularly if it is a matter of embarking upon comparativism of a widely ranging na ture.","PeriodicalId":39571,"journal":{"name":"ARION-A JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND THE CLASSICS","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2004-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"ARION-A JOURNAL OF HUMANITIES AND THE CLASSICS","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.5422/fso/9780823226443.003.0002","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CLASSICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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A have decided to speak of "the gods" rather than "religion," and the "political domain" (le politique) to identify the specific domain that has been recognized as such (to politikon) ever since Aristotle. As for the earliest Greek cities, they constitute the area of my present fieldwork. No doubt you thought, "Presumably, he's a Hellenist" . . . and there is, for heaven's sake, surely nothing shameful about being a Hellenist. All the sanie, I should like to make it clear that, very early on, I was lucky enough to embark upon comparative studies. What kind of comparative stud ies? The kind that involves historians working with anthro pologists, and vice versa. But to work as an anthropologist particularly concerned with the comparativist approaches of ethnologists and historians is more complex than it may ap pear.1 When Hellenists hear of someone "doing anthropology with the ancient Greeks," they manifest irritation, and as for historians?I am thinking of mainstream historians, those of our "major" nations of both today and yesterday?they too are usually less than enthusiastic, particularly if it is a matter of embarking upon comparativism of a widely ranging na ture.
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MORE THAN humane philology is essential for keeping the classics as a living force. Arion therefore exists to publish work that needs to be done and that otherwise might not get done. We want to stimulate, provoke, even "plant" work that now finds no encouragement or congenial home elsewhere. This means swimming against the mainstream, resisting the extremes of conventional philology and critical fashion into which the profession is now polarized. But occupying this vital center should in no way preclude the crucial centrifugal movement that may lead us across disciplinary lines and beyond the academy. Our commitment is to a genuine and generous pluralism that opens up rather than polarizes classical studies.